Smartphone dependency is at least a growing phenomenon - if not a problem.
China's top quarantine authorities renewed its order to boost quarantine measures to prevent the entry of a new type of coronavirus following a WHO report.
A regulation on the management of a drug safety blacklist will take effect on Oct 1, the State Food and Drug Administration said on Sunday.
The Chinese capital plans to lay more water-absorbing bricks this year in the urban area to conserve rainwater and alleviate the so-called "heat island effect" meanwhile.
China's food and drug watchdog has told the country's pharmaceutical firms to carefully scrutinize their material sources to prevent substandard ingredients being used in medicine.
Eleven suspects involved in refining and selling gutter oil stood trial in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province, on Tuesday.
Imported cotton has been piling up in Qingdao due to government import quotas and growing appetite for cheaper foreign-produced cotton.
Shanghai's booming North Bund area has developed dramatically over the past decade, and that massive growth will continue apace.
Exporters in the processing trade should expand sales in the domestic market to offset weakening overseas demand as the global market remains bearish.
Chinese trade unions are urging enterprises nationwide to introduce collective wage bargaining to help raise workers' wages and protect their rights.
Increased Chinese investment in the US and more trade missions by US officials seeking chance in China have brought the countries closer.
China and the United States should work harder to improve and promote bilateral trade and investment as global economic outlook remains gloomy.