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Thursday, 24 March 2011 09:37
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&$Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (2nd R front), also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, inspects the Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Xiangtan, central China's Hunan Province, March 21, 2011. Xi Jinping made an inspection tour in Hunan from March 20 to 23. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)&$
&$Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (2nd R front), also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, inspects the Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Xiangtan, central China's Hunan Province, March 21, 2011. Xi Jinping made an inspection tour in Hunan from March 20 to 23. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)&$Read more... Add new comment
Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:46
Nearly two weeks ago, many Chinese people thought of Japan as just another foreign country thousands of kilometers away, too far away to interfere with their lives.
When a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami rocked the island nation on March 11, it also rocked the lives of the Chinese people.
Miao Yun spent the past year dreaming about her honeymoon in Japan, but her dreams have been shattered by the quake.
"It was hard to imagine that Japan was so close until the recent earthquak ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:45
More and more Chinese netizens are joining the program "Pray for Japan" by uploading personal pictures along with encouraging words online for people in neighboring Japan, which was hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11.
Launched by Chinese high school students, the program, which was posted on Douban.com, a local social website which is popular among Chinese students and white-collar workers, has so far collected over 190 pictures since the campaign started on Saturday.
People in ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:44
"We are paying this visit for the purpose of further enhancing mutual understanding, promoting friendship, strengthening cooperation and propelling the China- Nepal Comprehensive Partnership of Cooperation featuring ever- lasting friendship to move ahead constantly," Chen Bingde, Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) said in Kathmandu Wednesday.
Chen Bingde made the remarks upon his arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu .
"I am looking f ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:42
Thousands of citizens including college students were invited Wednesday to visit the headquarters of Beijing's special police to familiarize themselves with the work and life of these mysterious men.
A row of vehicles designed for special tasks were displayed at the headquarters in the northern suburb of the Chinese capital, where more than 5,000 visitors were allowed to check out the inside of the vehicles.
Other equipment such as an X-ray machine that can detect items behind an eight-cen ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:41
One person has been rescued and nine others are still missing one day after a wooden fishing boat capsized in waters off the coast of east China's Shandong Province, rescuers said Wednesday.
The accident happened at around 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday in waters near Shidao Port and all ten people aboard went missing, according to North China Sea Salvage Bureau.
The North China Sea Salvage Bureau received the accident report at 2:25 p.m. Tuesday and immediately sent a rescue vessel to the site.
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Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:40
Rescuers in southwest China's Sichuan Province are searching for six people who have been missing since a landslide hit the area, local authorities said Wednesday.
The landslide occurred around 11:20 p.m. on Tuesday, sending an estimated 2 million cubic meters of sand and stones down the hills of Wuquan Township, Wangcang County of Guangyuan City, according to the publicity department of the county government.
Local residents of five households affected by the landslide have been evacuated ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:37
Police across China kicked off a nine-month campaign on Wednesday to manage money and property involved in criminal cases in order to prevent misacts such as embezzlement, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
Vice Minister Liu Jinguo said police departments at all levels should revise both open and closed cases and establish detailed accounts of property and money involved, especially for economic- and drug-related criminal cases.
"The police are prohibited from misappropriating ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:32
Chen Bingde, Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), set out on Wednesday for an official visit to Nepal.
During the visit, Chen will meet and exchange ideas with leaders of the Nepalese government and army regarding the two countries' military relations, including deepening cooperation and ensuring frontier peace, as well as other issues of common concern.
The visit was made at the invitation of General Chhatra Man Singh Gurung, Chief of Army Staff for the Ne ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:29
The number of infectious tuberculosis patients in China has exceeded 5 million and that of Chinese infected with the tuberculosis bacteria has topped 500 million, accounting for 45 percent of the country's total population, according to the results of the "Fifth National Tuberculosis Epidemiology Site Survey" released by the Ministry of Health on March 21.
China has the world's second largest tuberculosis epidemic only after India, and the number of Chinese tuberculosis patients account for ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:25
China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Food and Drug Administration of the United States, have ordered a ban in imports of food from the area of Japan where the most disastrous radiation leakage in 25 years is happening.
Hong Kong will ban dairy products, vegetables and fruit from Japan's Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gunma and Fukushima prefectures from today, after excessive radiation elements have been detected in three vegetable samples there.
Director of Food and Environ ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:17
The Chinese central government will continue to tighten budgets for overseas junkets, receptions and cars to fight against extravagance in 2011, according to a cabinet meeting held on Wednesday.
The government will report the final spending accounts to the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, in June, and make the accounts available for public supervision, according to a statement issued after the executive meeting of the State Council, or the Cabinet, presided over by P ...
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Yesterday, March 22, was the 19th World Water Day. A kindergarten in Dongying District of Dongying City in Shandong Province organized its kids to take part in an educational activity with the theme "Leading a low-carbon life and saving water" on March 19. The aim of the event was to teach children the importance of water by imitating a situation where water is in short supply as well as to cultivate awareness of wat ...
&$Students queue up for inquires at employers' stands at a recruitment fair held at Shandong Normal University on March 22, 2011. A total of 512 companies offered about 10,000 jobs at the fair, which attracted nearly 10,000 college students from Shandong and other provinces. (Xinhua/Zhou Qingxian)&$
