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Heavy winds, rainstorms and hailstorms have damaged 7,000 hectares of crops in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region since Thursday, local authorities said Saturday.
Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, has been honored by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) for its achievements in reconstruction since the magnitude-8.0 earthquake on May 12, 2008.
Hou Ben’e, a villager of Wande county in Jinan, East China’s Shandong province, holds her home-grown tomato, which weighed in at 750 grams on May 12, 2011. A tomato competition was held on Thursday, attracting more than 30 tomato farmers to take part.
Water authorities in Central China's Hubei province decided on Wednesday to close the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in response to drought conditions.
Disaster response exercises were conducted throughout the country on Thursday, the National Day for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.
Dog owners in the Guangdong provincial capital must have a special microchip inserted beneath the skin of their pets by the end of July.
The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway starts the one-month trial operation on May 11,2011.
Japanese Buddhist monk, stands in front of a monument for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake during a trip to express his commiserations and prayers for the Chinese victims who had died during the disaster, in Yingxiu county, Sichuan province May 9, 2011
Chengdu, already named the world's fastest-growing city by Forbes magazine, this year wants to add more than 10 Fortune 500 companies to its base where 189 Fortune 500 companies have already been settled.
Four people from Kazakhstan pose for a photograph with copies of terra-cotta warriors in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, on May 9, 2011. Forty-eight Kazakh people, whose ancestors were from Shaanxi, visited the places where their forefathers had lived.
An order banning migrant workers from claiming unpaid back pay has been revoked and local government bosses have apologized for any offence caused. The new policy also threatened to bring criminal charges against those who organize collective protests or petitions.
Most of the young people in this Guangdong provincial capital say they are happy, according to a recent survey.