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Bijie has grown from Guizhou province's poorest region two decades ago into a thriving economic zone.
The Tibet autonomous region raised the minimum wage in January, the 10th increase since it established a minimum wage in 1997.
Central China's Hubei province will step up efforts to attract foreign investment in a bid to double its gross domestic product by 2016.
A newborn tigon was thrust into the spotlight in a wildlife park in eastern Jiangsu province Tuesday.
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has begun offering subsidies to rural school cafeterias to ensure nutritious meals for students, local education authorities said Tuesday.
The continuous drought in southwest Yunnan province has affected more than 1.44 million people, and the dry weather will persist through the first half of February, local authorities said Thursday.
A total of 55 people who have been stranded on west China's Xinjiang-Tibet Highway since Tuesday due to heavy snowfall have been rescued, a local rescue team said Thursday.
A top official from Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, has ordered tightened security in the city amid an "arduous" fight with the Dalai Lama group, local media reported.
Shanghai is striving to become a global financial center by establishing its leading position in the trading of yuan-denominated financial products, according to a state plan, said authorities of Shanghai financial services on Tuesday.
The use of reflective glass curtain walls in Shanghai will be banned in apartment, hospital, school, kindergarten and nursing home structures that have two stories or more.
South China's Guangdong province will construct a 198-megawatt (mw) offshore wind farm this year and connect it to the grid in 2014.
Like Nie, many railway workers also could not spend the Spring Festival at home this year.