Residents of Guangdong province are taking the lead in a pilot project to link their identity cards to a mobile social media app through facial recognition. The program will be rolled out nationwide early next year.
The best thing about Chinese life, of course, is that you get two cracks at New Year's resolutions. That thought ran through my mind the other day as the creme de menthe liegeoise (or some such) Belgian chocolate melted in my mouth, my ninth such delight in the space of about 20 minutes. Well, people will keep on giving boxes of chocolates as gifts for that other great festival, Christmas.
Item from Dec 29, 1998, in China Daily: More than 10,000 abandoned motor vehicles, including police cars, were sent to Beijing's Shougang Group to be melted down for scrap iron.
The Supreme People's Court announced on Thursday the retrial of three major property rights-related cases, it said in a statement.
A passenger bus flipped over on a narrow Iceland road, killing one Chinese student and critically injuring 12 others on Wednesday.
The Chinese government and military have strictly followed United Nations resolutions on sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
Pi Jinjun, 45, is a stevedore at the Port of Qingdao in east China's Shandong province. He has helped improve efficiency and safety at work, but perhaps a duty that evokes more pride is that as a delegate to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, his second time in such a role.
The central item on the agenda of a key Communist Party of China meeting next month will be a discussion of amending the country's Constitution, as was decided at a meeting presided over by General Secretary Xi Jinping on Wednesday.
A strategy to vitalize China's countryside, put forward by the top leadership in October, is expected to get a substantial boost at an approaching key meeting on rural development, experts said.
In the five years since its launch, China's domestically developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System has become a vital resource for public and commercial services nationwide, a senior official said.
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