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By Ye JunSome of the best things in life don’t happen until you grow old enough to recognize them. Ican say that about tea. I didn’t start to drink tea until I was 35. What happened before that? Well, it simply didn’t seemnece...

Domestic feature film “Chongqing Hotpot” topped China’s box office in the week ending April 10, according to China Film News. The film, a heist drama about the events that lead to four friends robbing a bank, raked in nearly 172 million yuan (26.5 million U.S....

China has widened the scope of its anti-pollution efforts to include soil pollution for the first time. A specific plan of action for the prevention and control of soil pollution will come into force during the period of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), and the nation’s...

By Mo Hong’e The first round of this year’s car license-plate lottery in Beijing saw more than 12,200 applications for new energy plates, accounting for nearly one-fourth of the annual quota for the category, the Beijing Morning Post reported. Details on the first...

(China Daily) The ministry of environmental protection has published the air quality rankings for 74 cities. A People’s Daily opinion article reviewed the past promises made by several mayors to improve the air quality because their cities ranked bottom on previous lists,...

(China Daily)   The push for garbage classification has advanced sluggishly and mostly fruitlessly in much of China, but Beijing is adopting an innovative way to try and encourage the practice in the capital. At a recent news briefing, Beijing’s sanitation department...

“Building more high-speed railways” has been a hot topic at the annual sessions of China’s provincial legislatures and political advisory bodies intensively held in January. China has the world’s largest high-speed rail network, with the total operating...

Beijing has replaced New York as the “Billionaire Capital of the world” for first time, said the latest Hurun Report. According to the report, 100 Hurun billionaires live in Beijing, up from 32 last year, followed by New York and Moscow with 95 and 66 respectively....

China began a national key research & development (R&D) plan on February 16, to streamline numerous state-funded scientific and technological programs. The plan focuses on research in fields vital to the country’s development and people’s well-being, such as...

Editor’s Note: The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee was held in Beijing from October 26 to 29, 2015. At the session, participants deliberated on and approved the Central Committee’s proposal for formulating the 13th...