WENZHOU, Zhejiang - Experts have suggested that the government should remove restrictions on private-sector businesses and individuals making direct overseas investments, pointing out that it could benefit the domestic economy.
BEIJING - Schools and kindergartens are among the first places where the effects of a national battle to ban indoor smoking in public are being seen, according to a survey conducted by China Daily.
The country's courts have been ordered to impose even harsher punishments for food safety crimes and work-related crimes concerning food safety.
BEIJING - Improving the living standards of people displaced by the construction of the Three Gorges Reservoir while increasing economic and social prosperity will be a top priority for the government, a senior official said on Sunday.
CHENGDU - Netizens have protested angrily over the inappropriate use of 90 million yuan ($14 million) of post-disaster reconstruction funds in a Sichuan province county since that misdeed was disclosed in a prime-time program at China Central Television (CCTV) on Saturday evening.
Chronic diseases caused 85 percent of all deaths, said a senior health official.
Authorities in Guangxi encouraging communities to become more child-friendly and better protect children's welfare.
Raised alarm level to persist in disaster that has affected millions
Beijing - Experts worry that a destructive vole will find a congenial home in the large expanses of the Dongting Lake bed that have been exposed during the current drought and will infest nearby places.
The use of the Chinese languge is growing as a rising proportion of the classmates are Chinese.
Value of studying abroad questioned amid growing use of mother tongue, reports He Na in Beijing.
The use of the Chinese languge is growing as a rising proportion of the classmates are Chinese.