Mother's Day marked in prison in N China
2011-05-08 10:42:42
A total of 14 prisoners' mothers were invited here Saturday to share the festival with their boys at a prison in North China's Tianjin.
Rural hydropower capacity to hit 74m kw
2011-05-08 07:40:19
China's capacity of rural hydropower is expected to hit 74 million kilowatts by 2015, said the country's Water Resources Minister Chen Lei Saturday.
Largest Tibet monastery to complete repairs
2011-05-08 07:32:36
The preservation project of Drepung Monastery, the largest monastery in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
Three Gorges Dam to unleash water, ease drought
2011-05-07 22:44:28
The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project, is expected to increase its water discharges over three days in a bid to fight the severe drought that has ravaged Central China's Hubei province and some southern provinces since February.
Experts find new way to restore bronze relic
2011-05-07 20:41:34
Experts in North China's Hebei province said they had invented a special kind of liquid that can restore heavily-corroded bronzeware dating back over 2,000 years.
Yangtze River, downcast, running dry
2011-05-07 17:49:25
Photo taken on May 6, 2011 shows naked riverbed along the Yangtze River in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province.
Fire put out in NE China's Greater Hinggan Mountains
2011-05-07 14:42:58
A forest fire that broke out Friday on Greater Hinggan Mountains in northeast China's Heilongjiang province was extinguished early Saturday, said local authorities.
Central China police bust tomb robbing ring
2011-05-07 14:31:59
Police in central China's Henan province said they had retrieved 109 relics after they broke up a tomb-robbing gang.
TPV to set up factories in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone
2011-05-07 10:55:37
The world's largest LCD display manufacturer TPV Technology has signed an agreement with the Chengdu Hi-tech Zone to launch its R&D and production center in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Nanjing has 1st organ-trade case
2011-05-07 07:45:15
As the first case of trafficking in human organs in Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, was unearthed recently, Chinese legal experts and judges are calling for more specific judicial definitions to aid their work.
More govt disclosure to combat corruption
2011-05-07 10:14:37
China has moved to combat squandering taxpayers' money on government officials' overseas trips, vehicle purchases and receptions, by disclosing how much has been spent in the past on such expenditures.
Food safety a work in progress
2011-05-07 07:45:15
Chinese authorities will take unprecedented efforts to rectify the much-criticized food industry in an effort to prevent new scandals from undermining the public's confidence in the nation's food sector.