As the number of Chinese students heading overseas for education continues to grow, and as the choice of destinations becomes more diverse, the United States continues to be preferred, according to a report by an educational institute.
QQ, a popular social networking app heavily used by younger people, has removed a smoker emoji from its mobile version to help curtail the smoking habit in China, the world's largest tobacco consumer.
An unusual flower found on Yudu Mountain in northwestern Beijing's Yanqing district was identified as a new species of orchid in October.
Two articles in the Oct 9 issue of China Daily showed the good and bad sides of human behavior.
Item from Nov 8, 1998, in China Daily: Unimaginable changes have taken place in Chinese drinking habits in the past two decades. Until recently, no one would have thought of buying drinking water at a store, but now China produces 1.8 million metric tons of mineral water for sale every year.
China's top legislature made public a widely anticipated draft law on Tuesday that would improve the supervision of government workers and replace the controversial Party practice of shuanggui with a new detention system.
Xi'an, Shaanxi province, aims to become a global center for cutting-edge technology by 2025, officials said on Tuesday.
UNESCO voted to support the creation of a teacher education center at Shanghai Normal University during the international agency's recent 39th general conference in Paris. The motion passed without debate.
The new head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, You Quan, said on Tuesday that department workers must study and implement the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress to better serve the country.
Ever since coal-burning heating systems were fired up in mid-October, residents in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, have suffered from virtually constant smog, arousing queries about what the government is doing about it.
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