Taiwan litigants to be aided in lawsuits

Mainland courts are pledging to improve cross-Straits judicial exchanges, ensure equal protection for Taiwan litigants and offer them better legal services in hearings of Taiwan-related cases.

'Son of Tibet' revels in plateau's bright future

As a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the nation's top political advisory body, Thubten Khedrup has presented nearly 200 proposals at both the regional and national level.

Relocation provides isolated villagers with better homes and lives

Poverty alleviation efforts in the Tibet autonomous region are accelerating. For example, by the end of last year, 25 counties in cities and prefectures such as Shigatse, Lhokha, Chamdo and Ngari were no longer designated as "impoverished", along with 2,100 villages and 181,000 residents, according to a statement from the regional government last month.

Villagers plant orchids, and 'harvest gold'

It is still early spring in southwestern China's Guizhou province, but the forest in Zhegui village is already filled with vitality: oak trunks covered with orchid-like stalks, with branches swaying in the breeze.

Prices go up for stink bug dish in Guangzhou

A stink bug, known for eating the flower buds of popular fruits in South China's Lingnan, has recently become an expensive delicacy in Guangdong province - a province long known for its delicious Cantonese fare.

Study offers clues for Chinese giant salamander conservation

Scientists have identified seven major genetically distinct groups of the critically endangered Chinese giant salamander - the world's largest amphibian - living in the wild in China, with three in Zhangjiajie, in Central China's Hunan province.

Li: Foreign companies to be equals

Premier Li Keqiang reiterated on Monday China's commitment to treat domestic and foreign companies as equals and better protect the rights of foreign businesses.

Inspectors to assess chemical hazards

The central government has ordered a national inspection to assess potential hazards of chemicals and safety risks at all chemical industry parks across the country, following an explosion on Thursday in Jiangsu province that claimed the lives of at least 78 people.

Families of explosion victims seared by pain

The season of family reunions during Spring Festival hadn't been able to bring together six siblings from Changchun, Jilin province.

Tibet banks on tourism to lift its economy

LHASA - It was four days away from the opening of the annual peach blossom festival and workers were busy setting up the steel stage structure. Yet hundreds of tourists were already bustling under the wild peach groves in the mountains of Kala village of Nyingchi in the Tibet autonomous region.

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Exchanges with Taiwan will benefit 'one family'

The Chinese mainland will continue to deepen the integrated development across the Taiwan Straits and share development opportunities with Taiwan residents, said Liu Jieyi, head of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, when he met the mayor of Kaohsiung, Han Kuo-yu, in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Monday.