Monitoring procedures for all medical and industrial sources of radioactivity will be strengthened by authorities in Jiangsu province.
Nearly seven decades after the end of World War II, chemical weapons discarded by retreating Japanese troops still pose a threat to life and limb.
Archaeologists are examining claims that the area has long been home to a number of different races, report Cui Jia in Alar and Gao Bo in Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Archaeologists are examining claims that the area has long been home to a number of different races, report Cui Jia in Alar and Gao Bo in Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
The number of foreign visitors to Beijing has been falling for several years, leading travel industry experts to examine ways of bringing them back.
The village that has long been home to Beijing's hidden army of garbage collectors is facing demolition as China's capital city looks to redefine its role.
Races and participants are on the rise, with marathons big business.
Sweat mixed with dirt streamed down the face of Arken Tulak, chief of the Naizerbage police station in the city of Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
In 2010, the central government decided to establish a Special Economic Zone in Kashgar city in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The hope is that the city, which has a population of 700,000 - 79 percent of which are members of the Uygur ethnic group - will be able to replicate the success of Shenzhen, China's first and still most-successful SEZ, in the country's less-developed western region.
Newly deciphered Japanese wartime archives offer fresh evidence of atrocities committed by Japanese troops during the invasion of China.
As next year's 70th anniversary of China's victory in the war against the Japanese approaches, historians and local residents are rediscovering the history of the shadowy group whose members were Hong Kong's only defenders during the occupation.