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The city's tourism department has ordered a six-month overhaul of the one-day tour business after it was revealed some retail stores were tricking foreign tourists into buying unnecessary and overpriced traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
A free hotline and a medical website will be put into service in July to help patients to make appointments more easily with hospitals in Beijing, an official of the municipal health authority said on Monday.
Xi'an, the capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province and the former capital of 13 dynasties, has set out its plan to expand and lead the development of western China.
Sodium nitrites were blamed in the food poisoning of the 74 students and four other teachers in a middle school in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said Tuesday.
Chengdu, now one of the fastest growing cities in the world, earned high praise from a recently released 2011 China Investment White House published by the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
The country's first large auction of artworks made by masters of intangible cultural heritage proved a success on Sunday in Beijing, pushing ahead the effort to explore the handicraft market and attract young craft inheritors.
According to its results, Beijing ranks eighth among the country's 30 provincial and regional capitals. At the top of the list are Guangzhou and Shanghai. And both Hohhot, capital of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei province, outpace the national capital.
The government of Zengcheng, a suburban city of Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, has sent working groups to villages, factories and residential communities to clarify the rumor about a clash between security personnel and a pregnant street vendor.
PENFOLDS WINE, Australia's most renowned wine cellar, once again kicks off their wine tasting tour through China from this year's April to June.
China's central government has dispatched 1,000 cotton-padded tents, 2,000 quilts and 2,000 cotton-padded jackets to a quake hit county in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Thursday, according to a notice issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
International communications expert Christo Kaftandjiev said Chengdu's use of a giant panda logo for its external marketing campaigns is a strong example of how to incorporate symbols of a country's culture in advertising and promotional projects.
One out of every eight residents in the city of Lhasa is over the age of 60, according to a recent government survey.