Most college students timid, picky, busy - and unmarried

Feeling lonely and unloved on Chinese Valentine's Day? You're not alone. A recent survey found that 71 percent of college students in China are single.

Pork processor shut down over outbreak

A slaughterhouse that belongs to the country's largest pork processor was ordered to shut down following an outbreak of deadly African swine fever - the second outbreak in the country within two weeks.

Internet celebrity accused of extortion

CHANGSHA - Chinese police have detained a man who they say confessed and expressed remorse for using his influence on social media to extort money.

Typhoon Rumbia sweeps into E. China

Chinese meteorologists renewed a typhoon yellow alert, the second-lowest of a four-tier warning system, on Thursday as Typhoon Rumbia approached East China and is expected to pack winds of up to 100 kilometers per hour near its eye, according to the national observatory.

National panda park to open by end of this year

China's first giant panda national park - covering an area triple the size of Yellowstone National Park in the United States - will open soon, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration said on Thursday.

Lower lira draws Chinese tourists to Turkey

Travel bookings to Turkey by Chinese tourists have surged as Turkey's currency has depreciated rapidly, according to online travel agency Ctrip on Tuesday.

Cancer patient faces charges for selling drug that's now legal

The detention of a liver cancer patient who made a profit selling a cancer drug before it was approved on the Chinese mainland has sparked heated public debate.

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Who's getting most sex? 4,000 surveyed tell all

Nearly half of Chinese people born in the 1990s have no sex life, according to a survey by internet company NetEase, which was released before Qixi - China's Valentine's Day - which falls on Friday this year.

UK undergraduates visit on study tour

More than 220 undergraduates from top universities in the United Kingdom, including Oxford and Cambridge, embarked on a three-week Study China tour this week. They will be based at East China Normal University in Shanghai.

Festival handicrafts help village women

Qiqiao Festival, a Chinese version of Valentine's Day, is enticing more women in Xihe county, Gansu province, to work on festival handicrafts to help promote economic development.

Nanjing eyes high-end manufacturing, logistics center

Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, is striving to upgrade its manufacturing and strengthen its position as a logistics hub in the lower Yangtze River.