GUANGZHOU - The site of the opening and closing ceremony of the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games will not be torn down, the city has decided after soliciting the public's and city planners' opinions, local authorities said.
BEIJING - Health workers in northwest Gansu province have been asked by the local health administration to provide health advice and related services to the public via China's Twitter-like micro blogs, which now have 195 million users.
Under different circumstances, Jenny,a guide dog, would be treated as one of China's "talents".
A worldwide online poll has named the Chinese capital as the country's most cultured city.
Japan has ulterior motives to play up a "China threat theory", said the defense ministry.
Many shops in the city of Kashgar in west China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region reopened Thursday, but business has been dull.
Some people in China have harnessed the power of microblogs to help people who are in dire need of assistance.
Half of city dwellers in China will be part of the middle class by 2023, said the country's think tanks.
ConocoPhillips China said on Wednesday that it had discovered more oil-based drilling - a discovery that may push up the volume of its oil spill to a new high.
China on Wednesday expressed its "strong dissatisfaction " with Japan's 2011 defense white paper.
The head of the Red Cross Society of China pledged again to disclose more information on how much the charity receives through donations and how much money it spends.
A district official was sentenced to 16 years in jail on Tuesday in connection with a fire in that claimed the lives of 58 people in Shanghai last year.
