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China's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, has been urged to disclose its accounts book, following a string of scandals which stirred comments that the operation of the former imperial home was still "forbidden to the public".
Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson will serve as president of a seven-member jury for this year's Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), the festival's general manager said on Thursday.
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is poised to become a major tourist destination for Chinese and international sightseers, walking out of the shadows cast by the deadly riots that occurred there in 2009, officials said Thursday.
North China's Shanxi province, a major coal production base, has eliminated all of its small collieries, each of which had an annual production capacity of no more than 300,000 metric tons, according to a senior coal industry regulator.
Seeking to reduce the amount of trash in the city, Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang Province, is experimenting with a measure to "name and shame" those who fail to put waste in the right place.
A local law that bans indoor smoking in public places was passed Thursday in Harbin city, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, becoming the first regulations in China targeting second-hand smoke.
Editor's note: Joanna Huang is director of communications for Shangri-La's Kerry Centre Hotel in Beijing. Here she describes the day she threw herself out of an airplane for charity.
The new terminal building of Chengdu Shuangliu Airport is under construction, said the management committee of Chengdu International Aviation Hub comprehensive functional zone. "It will be put into operation next year."
Income from tourism in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is expected to reach 100 billion yuan (about $15.4 billion) in 2015, local authorities said Wednesday.
A pregnancy program set up for families who lost children in the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 has helped women give birth to more than 2,900 healthy babies in Southwest China's Sichuan province over the last three years.
Nine government officials in Xianghe county of North China's Hebei province have been punished or sacked for illegal enclosure of farmland, local authorities said Tuesday.
Large swarms of locusts have laid waste to vast tracts of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with authorities expecting the plague to worsen as the weather heats up.