The challenges for Notre Dame Cathedral restoration include finding ways to integrate new material into the old existing structure, according to a leading historian at Cambridge University.
Climate change has been making meteorological conditions in the greater Beijing area more conducive to the generation of haze, and combined with heavy smog, the situation could trigger a rapid increase in the concentration of airborne pollutants, researchers said.
Pyongyang said on Thursday that it had test-fired a new type of tactical guided weapon on Wednesday and at the same time demanded that United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo no longer be included in bilateral nuclear talks, which remain stalled.
A multilateral tax cooperation mechanism under the Belt and Road Initiative was established on Thursday in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province. It aims to facilitate cross-border trade and investment along BRI routes by helping resolve tax disputes.
President Xi Jinping urged all-out efforts to achieve the goal of eliminating poverty in China within two years in his three-day inspection tour of Chongqing, which ended on Wednesday.
China's economy grew at a faster-than-expected 6.4 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, matching the rate from the fourth quarter of last year, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday.
An inferno that destroyed the spire and a large portion of the wooden roof structure of the 12th-century Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday reinforced a cautionary message to Chinese authorities about the need to better protect vulnerable heritage sites.
Shu Wenbin is one of the millions of private business entrepreneurs in China set to benefit from large-scale tax cuts that take effect this month.
Garrett Sheetz has always seen giant pandas in picture books, but never in real life, so he was more than thrilled when his parents drove six hours from their home in San Jose, California, to the San Diego Zoo to see the chubby bears up close.
Tax cuts will not just benefit small businesses in vibrant centers such as Shanghai and Shen-zhen, Guangdong province, but some of the poorer areas of the country as well, according to Liang Qianjuan.
China will work harder to ensure financing costs faced by micro and small enterprises are further reduced, with a target of making outstanding loans to these firms approved by the five large State-owned commercial banks increase by over 30 percent this year, a State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Wednesday.
Experiments conducted by Chinese scientists to test brain development of monkeys carrying human gene copies have received ethical approval, and the scientific work complies with international animal welfare standards, according to a Chinese research institute.
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