A monthlong environmental inspection of seven provincial regions, including Shanxi and Liaoning provinces and Tianjin, found more than 28,900 pollution problems and led to the detention of 355 people by the time it finished on May 28, authorities said.
China will ramp up resources to accelerate the approval process for the C919, the country's first large domestic passenger plane, to obtain an airworthiness certificate, which may require thousands of test-flight hours, the industrial regulator and the aircraft's maker say.
The two giant pandas living at Ouwehands Zoo enchanted hundreds of admirers in their long-awaited debut on May 30.
China's widely watched Cybersecurity Law, which takes effect on June 1, is not meant to limit the cross-border flow of information or hamper international trade, despite the concerns of some foreign institutes, the country's cybersecurity watchdog said on May 31.
Beijing and Berlin should further promote liberalization and facilitation of trade, and jointly safeguard the rules of the World Trade Organization, Premier Li Keqiang said on May 31.
The central government has announced the appointments of several senior officials in the past week, which experts said reflect the trend that China will have more senior officials with expertise related to their posts.
Sun Huaishan, a former senior political adviser, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China and dismissed from public office, according to the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on Friday.
Eight provincial and ministerial officials were sentenced to terms of up to life in prison for graft on Wednesday, highlighting that China's sweeping fight against corruption is far from over. Among the convicted, four officials were found guilty of accepting bribes worth over 100 million yuan ($14.7 million), including Liu Zhigeng, former vice-governor of Guangdong province and Wang Baoan, former head of the National Bureau of Statistics.
Two girls who went missing on International Children's Day were found dead in the room of a neighbor, police in Dalian of Liaoning province said on Friday.
For the past two months, Zhao Qiuhua has had to skip dinner most days, and he has rarely been able to get to bed before 2 am. Not that he minds, as he's helping to clean up China's treasured Erhai Lake.
Su Jinning used to commute more than an hour a day to work in Beijing, sometimes driving through thick smog. Now, he spends his mornings under a blue sky, walking the 5 kilometers from his home to a small market to shop for fresh vegetables.
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