Sharing a double bed with a roommate in a 20-square-meter bedroom, Ma Chao is quite satisfied with his living conditions. A year ago Ma lived with another person in a 7-sq-m room, sharing a bathroom…
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When Liu Jian first watched “Beijingers in New York City,” a popular TV series about Chinese newcomers’ struggle in the United States, he was not fascinated by the story. But a second viewing one year…
BEIJING – Experts have slammed bosses at a Haidian district park after they converted an emergency earthquake shelter into golf courses. Shuguang Park, which had acted as one of 33 disaster collection points across the…
Beijing – The government can only ask Beijing residents, whose houses are designated to be demolished, to move out after paying them satisfactory compensation, according to a notice issued on Saturday by the Beijing municipal…
Six months after new policies were implemented to ease Beijing’s notorious congestion, nearly 80 percent of the capital’s citizens still say they have yet to see an improvement, according to an ongoing survey by the…
BEIJING – Heavy rain complicated rescue efforts on Sunday afternoon as crews worked to free 19 miners trapped deep underground at a coal mine in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Zhangcun Coal Mine in…
Two of Shanghai’s leading universities are involved in a fierce dispute over alleged poaching of talented students, as competition among universities on the Chinese mainland continues to intensify. On July 1, the Shanghai-based Fudan University…
Rescuers racing to save 19 trapped coal miners in south China suspended their efforts Monday morning due to high levels of toxic gas. After carbon monoxide gushed out of the mine at 2:45 a.m., the…
BEIJING — Migrant worker Yue Yaowei has lived in Beijing for six years but is not recognised as a resident of the Chinese capital — and so cannot get health insurance, buy a car or…
The State Council has ordered 10 percent of profits from land transfers to be plowed into education spending as the Cabinet strives to find diverse sources of funding for at least an extra 200 billion…