China reports more deaths from food poisoning last year
The Ministry of Health said Tuesday that 6,685 people suffered from food poisoning in 2012, with 146 of the victims consequently dying, up 6.6 percent year on year. The number…
China ups spending related to quality of life
China’s central budget for 2013 features notable spending increases in areas closely related to quality of life, including education, healthcare, social security and public housing. Government spending on medical and…
China to launch first national geographic census
China is set to launch its first national census of geographic conditions between 2013 and 2015, according to a Cabinet decision publicized Tuesday. A State Council circular said the census…
Most Chinese believe CPI will rise: poll
Chinese people are feeling the pinch from rising prices, especially in regards to food and housing, and a majority believe prices will rise this year, an ongoing poll shows. Around…
Beijing’s fireworks spree ends amid smog
Fireworks were set off amid heavy smog in Beijing on Sunday night to mark the Lantern Festival, the end to Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations and the city’s 16-day fireworks…
China retrieves defaulted payments for migrant workers
The Chinese government is checking companies nationwide for defaults of migrant workers’ wages, with over a million workers having already recovered their hard-earned money. The Ministry of Human Resources and…
China spends more on affordable housing
China’s government has stepped up efforts to ensure housing for low-income residents as its regulated property market has warmed in recent months, new data has revealed. The central government allocated…
China extends New Year greetings to overseas Chinese
The Chinese government on Wednesday extended New Year greetings to all overseas Chinese and those who have returned to settle in the mainland. Li Haifeng, director of the Overseas Chinese…
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Premier Li Keqiang’s confident press debut
Premier Li Keqiang’s confident press debut
Li Keqiang’s debut as China’s Premier in front of the world’s press has grabbed extensive attention, both at home and abroad. The 57-year-old person minced no words as he answered journalist’s questions, laying to rest doubts and concerns as to how he was gong to run the second largest economy in the world over the [...]
Xi orders courage to help deepen reforms
Xi orders courage to help deepen reforms
Communist Party of China (CPC) chief Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for courage like “wading through a dangerous shoal” to help deepen reforms in the country’s development. While joining national legislators from China’s economic hub of Shanghai to deliberate the government work report, Xi compared the difficulty facing the country’s deepened reform and opening up [...]
Northeast China’s first nuclear power plant starts operation
Northeast China’s first nuclear power plant starts operation
The Hongyanhe nuclear power station, the first nuclear power plant and largest energy project in northeast China, started operation on Sunday afternoon. The plant’s first unit went into operation at 3:09 p.m., said Yang Xiaofeng, general manager of Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. Construction on the first phase of the project, which features four [...]
DPRK says it conducts 3rd nuclear test
DPRK says it conducts 3rd nuclear test
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Tuesday it has successfully conducted the third underground nuclear test, according to the official KCNA news agency. The test was part of the country’s “practical measures of counteraction” to defend its security and sovereignty against hostile U.S.policies, which it claimed have violated DPRK’s “rights to launch [...]
Reservoir leak results in casualties in Xinjiang
Reservoir leak results in casualties in Xinjiang
A reservoir leak in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has left one dead and more than a dozen injured, rescuers said Saturday. The Lianfeng Reservoir in Kaziwan Village, located about 25 km from Urumqi, the regional capital, began to lose water around 6:10 a.m., sources with the reservoir administration said. Water gushed out and [...]
China’s 1st single-layer graphene of 15 inches thick made in Chongqing
China’s 1st single-layer graphene of 15 inches thick made in Chongqing
A researcher uses a microscope to analyse a touch-screen product made from the 15-inch single-layer graphene in the Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in southwest China’s Chongqing, Jan. 24, 2013. Chongqing Institute recently announced that it successfully made the first single-layer graphene of 15 inches thick which has marked [...]
Police urged to improve service for Spring Festival travellers
Police urged to improve service for Spring Festival travellers
Police officers at all levels were urged to improve their work style and offer better services for travellers during the upcoming Spring Festival travel rush. Huang Ming, vice minister of public security, made the remarks during a televised conference on traffic management for the Spring Festival travel rush, which starts on Jan. 26. The Spring [...]