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An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted a northern part of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, at 9:44 pm Beijing Time (13:44 GMT) Sunday.
Nine out of every 1,000 people living in Shanghai come from foreign countries or Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan, making it the Chinese mainland city that is most densely populated with overseas residents.
More than 200 villagers in Central China's Henan province do not have clean water to drink because their water sources were polluted by chromium residue.
The speed limit on Shanghai subway's Line 10 was lifted on Sunday morning after a rear-end crash on Sept 27, which injured nearly 300 passengers, led to the introduction of speed restrictions.
Tofu, also known as soybean curd, is made by coagulating fresh hot soymilk with a curdling agent. The precise origin of the first tofu is disputed, but Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) herbalist Li Shizhen, in his classic pharmacopeia Compendium of Materia Medica, wrote that tofu was invented by King Liu An.
When the creator of Chengdu's most famous beancurd dish first tossed the tofu, minced beef and Sichuan peppers together, she never knew she would go down in culinary history, or that the dish would be named after her.
In Guiyang, little bars of beancurd are part of the courtship ritual. Qiu Bo traces the history of a snack known locally as "tofu in love".
Since the Chengdu Hi-tech Zone opened its microblog in weibo.com in early April, the number of its followers has exceeded 200,000, higher than that of the microblog of any other State-level high-tech zone in the country, says Tang Jiqiang, a leading official with the zone.
It looks like an ordinary school office. It has an area less than 20 square meters, three desks with computers stand in the office, a printer prints necessary materials, phones ring from time to time, and two bookcases stand in the corner, full of various training books.
Visiting the official microblog of the Chengdu Hi-tech Zone, one can find the following words saluting its volunteers.
Disney has initiated an online psychotherapy to relieve students from school-related anxiety before the new semester begins.
The 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics opened at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), the first time that the Congress has ever taken place in China.
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