China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concluded its 154-day trip on Thursday after covering more than 30,000 nautical miles.
Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu on Thursday called for accelerating innovation and promotion of agricultural science and technology.
A prominent Chinese science organization has slammed an American medical institute, accusing its doctors of deceiving Chinese patients with a controversial cancer treatment.
China's mapping service regulator Wednesday said Google's application for an online maps license, which is required for operating such service in China, is under official examination.
A Japanese media report said the country is "casting menacing eyes on" the Arctic.
New objectives must be defined for next probe to the Red Planet.
The 1,318-kilometer-long high-speed line runs through Tianjin municipality and Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. It is expected to partially ease the festival transport rush in the country's eastern regions.
Use of microblogging in China quadrupled in 2011 compared with the previous year, with nearly half of all Chinese Internet users now taking to the near-instant service to gather news and spread views.
The number of Internet users in China hit 513 million by the end of December 2011, according to a report released by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on Monday.
The Ziyuan III satellite has sent back its first set of visual data days after the orbiter was successfully launched on January 9 to produce high-resolution imagery for civilian use.
China has successfully developed its largest rocket propellant tank, which will be used to contain hydrogen fuel for the country's Long March-5 carrier rocket, the tank's developer said Wednesday.
China's top health authority will strictly regulate the cutting-edge stem cell treatment, which attracts thousands of patients from abroad each year, to ensure patient safety and the orderly development of the technology.
