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NW traditional Chinese medicine on display in HK
Updated: 2015-08-27Gansu had more than 160 TCM products and more than 40 types of food on display in Hong Kong.
Unusual café brings convenience to start-ups
Updated: 2015-08-27Chuanshuo Café, in the city of Lanzhou, Gansu province, provides both coffee and free office space for start-up company owners.
NW China getting Chinese cultural park
Updated: 2015-08-27The city of Jiayuguan, in Gansu province began construction work on a Silk Road Cultural Exposition Park, on Aug 25.
NW China getting better drinking water from its reservoir soon
Updated: 2015-08-24The city of Lanzhou, Gansu province began construction work on a water diversion project on the Liujiaxia Reservoir
China opens cargo train service from Lanzhou city to Germany
Updated: 2015-08-24A freight-train service between Hamburg, Germany, and Gansu Province in northwest China opened Friday
In the new normal, the economy needs fine-tuning
Updated: 2015-08-24Various aspects of China's new economic normal become clearer by the day. One of those is that as the macroeconomy faces increasing downward pressure, regional economies are feeling the pinch, no more so than in the northeast and in the west, where decline has been substantial and sustained.