A UNIVERSITY in East China’s Zhejiang Province has introduced artificial intelligence (AI) to correct the test papers for its Chinese language course.
2018-01-24
THE top environment authority named and shamed three provincial regions — Qinghai and Yunnan provinces and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region — on Monday for their delayed efforts to fulfill their water pollution reduction targets.
CHINA’S maritime authority has detected several oil slicks in the East China Sea, close to the location where the Panama-registered, Iranian-owned oil tanker Sanchi sank after a ship collision one week ago.
2018-01-23
CHINA will begin selection for the next generation of astronauts who will train to work on the country’s planned space station, China Daily reported yesterday.
CHINA’S economic growth pickup in 2017 was better than expected and accompanied by improving quality, efficiency, and structure, a spokesperson for the country’s top economic planner said yesterday.
GRASS-ROOTS governments in Beijing are now required to conduct weekly home visits to elderly residents who live in their own homes.
2018-01-22
LAWMAKERS in Central China’s Hunan Province are reviewing a law revision that would require kindergartens to provide parents with access to their monitoring video, so that they can see whether their children are being well cared for.
CHINA’S first court specializing in Internet-related cases plans to propose a national online ID system for filing legal email and confirming the identity of litigants, according to the court official.
JUST one month ahead of Spring Festival, the most important family gathering festival in China, the Taiwan’s aviation authority has decided not to approve 176 additional cross-Strait flights operated by China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines.
CHINA Eastern Airlines and Hainan Airlines, two giant airlines in China, announced Wednesday that the use of portable electronic devices (PEDs) will be allowed during flight starting Thursday, while China Southern Airlines and XiamenAir said they will carry out the new rule Friday.
2018-01-19
CHINA has introduced its toughest regulation yet on land reclamation along the country’s coastline, vowing to demolish illegally reclaimed land and stop approving general reclamation projects.
ALIBABA plans to pay 350,000 yuan to 400,000 yuan (US$54,466) annual salary to two employees aged above 60 to work for its e-commerce platform Taobao in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
2018-01-18
THE Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) should in principle be open on a 24-hour basis.
PRESIDENT Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, yesterday discussed bilateral trade and the situation on the Korean Peninsula via phone.
2018-01-17
CHINA will allow non-real-estate enterprises and villages to build houses on the land they own to boost housing supply.
CHINA plans to enhance safety standards for the production and use of electric bikes to make them safer on the road.
THE city’s State-owned assets supervision and administration commission published a report on the social responsibility of the State-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Shenzhen in 2017.
2018-01-16
A 23-YEAR-OLD man, whose eyes were severely myopic, has undergone surgery at a Shenzhen hospital to restore his eyesight.
MARRIOTT International has suspended an employee and terminated a contract with a contractor who mistakenly listed Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao as separate countries in a customer questionnaire, the Asia Pacific head of the world’s largest hotel chain said Friday.
2018-01-15
THE Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) said yesterday that air quality inspection teams found problems in 21 companies and construction sites in the previous two days.