Retired academic Yi Zhongtian is embarking on his most ambitious project to date — a series of books detailing thousands of years of Chinese history.
Chinese writers under 30 are stepping into the limelight with the New Wave series released in June.
China's leaders seem to be bracing for painful therapy in return for sustainable growth to tame liquidity risks rather than pacify cash-strapped banks.
The Chinese survivor of the terrorist attack in northern Pakistan, and the families of the two Chinese victims, have arrived safely at the Chinese embassy.
China will take bigger steps in space exploration in pursuit of its space dream, President Xi said during a video call with the astronauts on the Shenzhou X.
On Sunday a perigee moon coincides with a full moon creating a "super moon" when it will pass by the earth at its closest point in 2013.
The ailing 94-year-old former South African president Nelson Mandela's condition becomes critical, South African presidency said on Sunday.
Statistics provided show that Hangzhou's exports to Africa reached $1.6 billion in 2012, up 11 percent year-on-year.
As China pledges to turn into an innovative economy as part of a transformation in its growth model, it is gearing up for the upper end of the global chain.
Work on a section of the massive South-to-North Water Diversion Project in Central China has been halted due to the large number of sand martins nesting in a slope marked for demolition.
The Shenzhou X spacecraft completed a manual docking with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module on Sunday, the last docking maneuver before China's manned space program enters the space lab stage.