"Good evening, everyone. It's a great pleasure for me to join you here to enjoy this traditional Chinese cultural feast," Charlie Hoffs, a Stanford University freshman, said in fluent Chinese when speaking at a Confucius Institute Day celebration here this weekend.
Up to 20,000 Beijing's street chiefs will be on duty by the end of September as part of an effort to improve the management of the city, municipal authorities said.
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that China does not seek hegemony and will not seek to replace US leadership in the world.
Shandong province, the home of Confucius (551-479 BC), is actively promoting the work of founding a university named after the Chinese sage, in a bid to develop the province into a research and study center of Confucianism with global appeal, the top provincial official said on Saturday in Jinan, the capital.
The head of the Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention has been removed from his duties because of a case of substandard vaccines, according to information posted on Sunday on the website of the Shandong Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Shandong Provincial Supervisory Commission.
China will reduce tariffs on a wide range of industrial products and raw materials beginning in November, as the nation ramps up the expansion of imports to further open up its economy, the Ministry of Finance said on Sunday.
Central authorities have urged officials in Jiangxi and Henan provinces to inspect and eliminate food safety risks in schools and to blacklist substandard food suppliers, according to a statement from the Ministry of Education on Friday.
Xi'an Aerospace Propulsion Institute in Shaanxi province, a key rocket engine research arm of the State-owned space giant China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, admitted to exaggerating facts about a former employee who has allegedly joined a private rocket company.
Sino-Israeli agricultural cooperation in China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region has not only boosted local agricultural development but also made the region a base for the exchange of knowhow domestically and internationally, officials said.
A court in Shaanxi province highlighted protection for heroes and martyrs as well as the need for regulated online behavior after ordering an internet company to compensate descendants of a former military leader.
With dwindling market, illegal elephant parts may find their way to auctions
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