Mountain rail still chugging along quarter century on, ticket price nearly unchanged

With the world's largest and fastest-expanding high-speed railway network, China has updated its railway timetable frequently over the past few years. But the timetable to a passenger train service connecting Yuci and Xiangyuan, two county-level regions 195 kilometers apart in the Tai-hang Mountains in North China's Shanxi province, has remained unchanged since its maiden run a quarter century ago.

Arson ruled out as cause of temple fire

LHASA - A preliminary investigation has ruled out foul play in the fire that broke out in Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region.

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Team in talks over statue vandalism

A Chinese team has been set up to negotiate with a Pennsylvania museum where the thumb of an ancient Terracotta Warrior statue was broken off and stolen while on exhibit in the US, said an official with the cultural relics authority in Shaanxi province.

Solar tree truly green in Xiongan

A solar photovoltaic system has been installed on top of an artificial tree in the Xiongan New Area in Hebei province.

Tourists to help find missing children

A Spring Festival temple fair in Kaifeng, Henan province, has attracted major media attention after it printed information about missing children along with admission tickets and encouraged tourists to help share them through social media.

Isolated village bids farewell to Lunar New Year in celebration

TAIYUAN - Bai Wuzi has called a cave his home for 35 years. It is where, in borrowed clothes, he married his blind wife and where their son and daughter were conceived and born. Xiazhai is a remote village between two mountains in Kelan county, Shanxi province.

Historic battlefield disrespect slammed

Two men posing for pictures dressed in imperial Japanese military uniforms in front of a Nanjing memorial site have been severely criticized online.

Counterfeiters of popular TCM remedy detained

Shanghai's food and drug watchdog and the municipal police recently cracked a major case of producing and selling counterfeit ejiao, a gelatin made of donkey hides, while falsely using a famous brand name.

Authorities underline caution on trips home

The country's traffic authority has warned of traffic safety risks after 11 people died and 20 were injured in a single traffic accident during the peak of the Spring Festival travel rush.

Airborne Silk Road helps boost Zhengzhou's fortunes

More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Silk Road unlocked the potential of economic exchanges and trade via camel with distant countries. Nowadays, air transportation is playing a key role.

Giant panda may be mother again after insemination

TAIPEI - Female giant panda, Yuan Yuan, received artificial insemination on Tuesday and Wednesday with sperm from male giant panda Tuan Tuan at Taipei Zoo. Both born in 2004, the pair were given as a goodwill gift to Taiwan by the Chinese mainland in 2008. They had their first and only cub so far, Yuan Zai, on July 6, 2013, also by artificial insemination.