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Nearly 60 percent of primary and middle school students in Shanghai are nearsighted, Shanghai Evening Post reported on Wednesday.
Swarms of caterpillars recently invaded a section of railway in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, delaying a cargo train for three hours, railway police said on Wednesday.
Witnesses said at least three people were killed, and an unknown number of others injured, in a workshop explosion that occurred Wednesday evening in Urumqi.
Rescuers set up a pipe to pump flood from a coal mine where eight workers are trapped at the border of Dushan county in Guizhou province and Nandan county in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region Wednesday.
44 red pandas were transferred from Nujing prefecture to Pu'er National Park, Yunnan province on May 30, making the park the largest red panda breeding base in China. More red pandas will be move to the park soon, which will host over 100 red pandas then.
China's meteorological authority said Tuesday that drought-stricken regions along the lower and middle reaches of the Yangtze River will get some relief with the arrival of light rainfalls in the coming three days.
China has achieved its five-year goal of cleaning up the polluted Songhua River, which flows into the Sino-Russian border river, an environmental official said on Tuesday.
China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will recruit around 9,200 bilingual primary and middle school teachers this year to promote bilingual education, local education authorities said Tuesday.
Soldiers practice a drill to hone techniques for capturing drug smugglers in the border areas around Longjing city, in the southeast of Northeast China's Jilin province, on May 30, 2011.
A man holds a 13.5kg wild carp he caught in a section of the Yellow River in Luoyang, Central China’s Henan province, May 30, 2011. The fish reaches 98 centimeters long.
Few suburban residents riding express services to city center
A man committed suicide after killing his son and daughter in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region Monday afternoon, police said.