A Long March-4B carrier rocket lifts off carrying a maritime satellite at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China’s Shanxi province, Aug 16, 2011. The orbiter, Haiyang-2, is for the supervision and survey of…
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MS Turanor PlanetSolar, a solar-powered boat, sails in to Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong, Aug 15, 2011. The solar-powered catamaran is a 31-meter-long ship with 500 square meters of solar battery. It began its voyage…
BEIJING – China’s sex ratio has declined for two straight years, which shows the nation’s increase of sex ratio at birth has been preliminarily brought under control, China’s chief of population and family planning said…
LHASA – China will spend more than 11.6 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) on the construction of Tibet’s irrigation and drinking water projects from 2011 to 2015, local authorities said Tuesday. The money will go to…
Xu Yingfu, a wood carver, displays his phoenix artwork in Xiangyang, Central China’s Hubei province, on August 15, 2011. Xu said his sculpting process includes outlining the design on paper, then rubbing it onto a…
HARBIN – Representatives from at least 400 wood companies gathered in the city of Mudanjiang in northeast Heilongjiang Province as the 5th China-Russia International Wood Expo opened Tuesday. The expo will not only speed up local…
BEIJING – A total of 35 Chinese universities rank among the world’s 500 best in a ranking released by China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University on Monday. Among the 35 universities, 23 are based on the…
Most consumers know that the price of an 18.9-liter bottle of water – a “barrel” – usually varies from 13 to 20 yuan. What they don’t know is that they may have paid different prices…
BEIJING – Beijing municipal government departments published details of their spending on overseas trips, official vehicles and receptions online on Monday. Thirty-three of the 44 government departments made public details of their spending on their…
SHANGHAI – Almost one in four students aged between 12 and 14 have tried smoking, according to the results of a survey released by the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control (CATC). The survey, carried out…