A new partnership of organizations that look after the Great Wall of China and Britain's Hadrian's Wall aims to boost tourism and the historical and cultural understanding of the monuments.
Beijing on Wednesday encouraged all parties to take advantage of the situation in the Korean Peninsula showing signs of easing after Pyongyang reopened a line of communication with Seoul.
Development of a long-term solution to the country's housing difficulties is expected to advance substantially in 2018, with long-term leasing one of its highlights, industry experts said.
Beijing slashed levels of a major airborne pollutant by over a third in five years, reaching a target set in 2013, and also recorded 226 "blue sky" days in 2017, the city's environmental authority said on Wednesday.
In the United States, baseball has long been considered the national pastime. In fact, baseball's popularity surged last year with a thrilling postseason after the sport had lost ground to pro football in the last two decades.
Editor's Note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy.
China will work to better the business environment with measures that further streamline administration and reduce corporate burdens, under a decision made at a State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.
Data on poverty relapse rates and impoverished households' income stability will figure in evaluations of provincial districts' poverty alleviation efforts in 2017, according to a senior official from the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
Five local officials in Hebei province have been sacked for embezzling poverty relief funds or failing to implement anti-poverty programs in their region, China's top disciplinary watchdog said on Wednesday.
"The lobbying was an arduous battle - eight mouths versus more than 200," said Huang Dashan, Party chief of the Pona village committee, recalling the difficulty he and seven colleagues had to persuade the villagers to demolish their old adobe homes in 2005 to make way for new home inns.
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