BEIJING – Measures are being drafted to promote domestic sales of goods originally produced for export, a trade official said. The measures, due in September, coincide with a slowdown in export growth and an upturn…
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BEIJING – China will steadily reform national defense and the army and constantly modernize the military forces, said China’s Minister of National Defense. Defense minister Liang Guanglie made the remarks at a reception in Beijing Sunday celebrating the…
Iran has recently conducted military drills with the use of ballistic missiles to demonstrate its power. The range of the missiles was not larger than 2,000 kilometers. Iranian defense officials and politicians said that Teheran…
GUIYANG – Drought has left 1.82 million people suffering from drinking water shortage in southwest China’s mountainous province of Guizhou, the provincial civil affairs bureau said in a statement. The drought, which started in June, has…
BEIJING – Group petition cases provoked by land acquisition and relocation increased substantially in the first half of the year, the country’s top land watchdog has revealed. The Ministry of Land and Resources received visits…
HAMI, Xinjiang – In a bid to protect eight key scenic spots in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, pasturing is now banned for five years, according to the regional animal husbandry bureau. The five-year-long…
SHANGHAI – As of Sunday, 19 families of passengers that died in the high-speed train crash in Wenzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, had agreed to accept compensation. Relatives of one of the victims of the…
BEIJING – Managers of the Palace Museum admitted on Sunday that a piece of 1,000-year-old porcelain among its invaluable collection had been damaged by error during research, which involved examining the artifact with an analytical…
BEIJING – The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) launched an online platform to disclose donation information, with a test run on Sunday afternoon, in its latest gesture to reassure donors of greater transparency. The…
BEIJING – Hail storms and tornadoes had killed 97 people in China in July, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Sunday. A total of 20.16 million people in 27 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions were…