CHINESE and foreign scientists have unveiled their findings in the first genome-wide study of an ancient human in China — a 40,000-year-old individual from Tianyuan cave near Beijing.
2017-10-16
A TOTAL of 2.64 million drivers earn an average of 170 yuan (US$26) a day providing cab service through the Didi service platform, according to a report by Didi Chuxing, the largest app-based car hailing service provider in China.
A RECENT survey showed overseas-educated Chinese still prefer to work in China’s first-tier cities after returning to the country.
A 41-YEAR-OLD American teacher donated a kidney and his corneas after his death in east China’s Jiangsu Province on Wednesday.
2017-10-13
A CHINESE Academy of Sciences (CAS) research institute and Aliyun, Alibaba’s cloud computing subsidiary, have released a cloud platform for quantum computing.
SHANXI has joined other regions in northern China by taking measures to mitigate air pollution in the autumn and winter seasons.
2017-10-12
CHINA has made hefty investments in water projects over the past five years, benefiting hundreds of millions of people in poor regions, a senior official said Tuesday.
A CHINESE auto maker has completed the country’s first highway test of the drive-smart functions of commercial heavy-duty trucks.
2017-10-11
AFTER one year of trial operation, China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, has identified multiple pulsars, the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) said yesterday.
THE Immigration Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced yesterday that self-service departure for visitors to Hong Kong (Smart Departure) will be launched at Hong Kong International Airport today.
2017-10-10
CHINA’S Good Samaritan law went into effect Oct. 1 to protect people who are ready to help others.
CHINA will become the world’s largest production base for display screens as early as 2019 as money flows into assembly lines, industrial associations have said.
2017-10-09
CHINA’S pursuit of high-end manufacturing and relocation of labor-intensive factories will generate opportunities for other emerging markets (EMs) in Asia to bolster economic growth, Fitch said in a report.
MORE than 70,000 officials at or above the county-head level have been investigated for suspected corruption since the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress in 2012, the top anti-graft body of the CPC said Saturday.
JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved the more powerful lower chamber of Japan’s bicameral parliament and called a general election Thursday.
2017-09-29
THE Central Government spent 4.6 billion yuan (US$694 million) on HIV/AIDS control and treatment in 2016, a health official said Tuesday.
2017-09-28
MORE than a year after China piloted its first national park in the Sanjiangyuan area of Qinghai Province, authorities have devised a scheme aimed at putting more of the country’s areas of outstanding natural beauty under protection.
THE All-China Federation of Trade Unions has helped more than 5 million migrant workers get unpaid wages totaling more than 30 billion yuan (US$4.5 billion) in the past five years, a federation official said.
2017-09-27
THE world’s highest road tunnel opened to traffic in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province yesterday, 15 years after the project was started.
AS of the end of August, over 680,000 previously unsupervised left-behind children in China’s rural areas have been placed in the custody of guardians, according to an office affiliated to the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA).