Item from June 15, 1984, in China Daily: As night descended, Xidan Street, one of the busiest shopping areas in Beijing, was flooded with people. Mobile stalls lined the well-lit walks and clothing for sale festooned roadside trees. ...
China is cutting the number of products whose manufacture requires official licensing, the State Council decided at an executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.
China commended the clarification Uganda made on Wednesday, in which the African country's Foreign Ministry said that Chinese diplomats were not involved in ivory smuggling and that the Ugandan government is committed to strengthening ties with China.
Premier Li Keqiang called on Monday on overseas Chinese to invest more in China and participate in building the Belt and Road.
On Jan 25, 1944, 24-year-old Robert Eugene Oxford and seven other crew members were on a routine supply mission, flying their B-24 Liberator heavy bomber from Kunming in Yunnan province to Chabua, India. They never arrived.
With competition between China's bike-sharing companies growing even hotter, rivals are rolling out new models to tempt customers.
China and Singapore pledged on Monday to cooperate on trade and regional infrastructure projects as the two countries try to speed up talks on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
The birth of a giant panda cub at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on Monday was toasted in Japan.
Having just thawed out from the Beijing winter freeze, a friend and I set out for the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in early April for what we thought would be a lovely spring holiday full of sunny strolls around lakes and satisfying hikes up mountains in northwestern China. What we had not imagined doing was pushing our hire car along an ice-covered road as snow swirled around us. This would in fact turn out to be one of our main outdoor activities as the unseasonable dump made those lakes and mountains impenetrable.
Item from June 13, 1988, in China Daily: Engineers are installing drilling equipment at an oilfield in Henan province. Such equipment, made in China, is now operational in three oil and gas fields.
Airline freight shipping was a major highlight of the cooperative agreements made by China and Luxembourg on Monday as Premier Li Keqiang met with visiting Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.