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Migrating cranes pause in China

Every year's end, Yao Li makes the two-hour drive to Shanghai's Chongming Island to meet old friends. He never speaks with them, and he never joins them in activities. After all, Yao cannot fly.

Lake cleanup spurs crab farmer to organize tourism venture

After farming crabs in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, for about a decade, Shen Xingcai is quitting the environmentally unfriendly business to run a residential inn near popular Taihu Lake.

New hope for the Yangtze porpoise

Under the intensely hot sun of early August, I looked out onto the Yangtze River both in awe and envy at the smooth gray bodies that seemed to swim so effortlessly just below the water's surface. They flowed gracefully through the river they have known as home their whole lives, none the wiser to the dangers that their kind faces.

Expert: Adjust the population policy

China should further relax or even abolish the family planning policies to increase births and ease the impact of rapid population aging, a leading expert has suggested.

Authorities to crack down on falsification of monitoring data

The country's top environmental authority vowed on Friday to curb the falsification of monitoring data and ensure institutes are not interfered with, as it unveiled a three-year campaign on environmental monitoring.

Websites of US airlines re-evaluated

The Civil Aviation Administration of China said on Friday that it is evaluating how the websites of four United States-based airlines refer to Taiwan.

Results of defective DPT vaccine probe publicized

Authorities on Friday released the findings of a probe into a previous investigation of substandard DPT vaccines produced by Wuhan Institute of Biological Products Co.

Zhejiang county getting ready for geospatial congress in Nov

Deqing, a scenic county in Zhejiang province, is going all out to be fully prepared for the upcoming United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress, slated to open from Nov 19 to 21.

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Three clinics cleared after vaccine scare

Three health clinics that faced online accusations of giving expired vaccines to patients in Shangluo, Shaanxi province, have been cleared, and authorities are blaming the panic on poor management and training.

Company's use of red scarf draws ire of CYL

The Chinese Young Pioneers National Working Commission strongly condemned the behavior of a company that used a red scarf, the symbol of the young pioneers, for marketing purposes, according to a statement released by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League on Thursday.