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Principals to share meals with students

Beijing education authorities issued new rules to strengthen food safety in school cafeterias, including requiring school headmasters to eat the same food together with students.

Past solution to formalism scrapped as needless burden

Liu Mingli, who was sent to the village of Guhe by the government of Fuyang, Anhui province, in 2014 to work on poverty alleviation, has been unable recently to log into an app that she used to upload photos and summaries of her daily work.

Fujian's young Samaritan will not be charged

Prosecutors have decided not to charge a young man who injured another man while being a good Samaritan by stopping an assault.

'Cliff village' attracts tourists with its rattan ladders

A series of rattan ladders that used to be the only way up and down for 500 villagers living atop a cliff have become a tourist attraction in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province.

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Bay Area plan sparks ambitions

Younger adults in Hong Kong and Macao are seeing a bright future north of the border with the release of the long-awaited development outline for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. They believe it will help them pursue their interests on the Chinese mainland - whether that means academic studies, building careers or starting new businesses.

HK, Macao legal workers to be arbitrators in Guangzhou

Legal professionals from Hong Kong and Macao will be allowed to work as arbitrators in Nansha district of Guangzhou as part of an effort by Guangdong province to strengthen cooperation with the two special administrative regions.

New screening method finds cancer through breath test

A Shanghai hospital is collaborating with a biotechnology company from the United Kingdom to start clinical trials of a method to screen for cancer through breathing tests - which it said has great potential to become an easy, noninvasive and less expensive way for early diagnosis of various cancers.

Endangered alligators sleep as humans take measures to save them

As critically endangered Chinese alligators lie asleep, dreaming whatever alligators dream during hibernation, the government of Anhui province is taking action to protect the species.

Jiangxi stabber subdued by people in market after injuring 11, police say

A man who stabbed 11 people with a knife in Ji'an, Jiangxi province, on Thursday was under police control, according to the local government.

State Council focuses on key poor regions

China aims to lift more than 10 million people above the poverty line this year, and 300 counties will be removed from the poverty list, a high-ranking official said on Wednesday.