The first high-speed railway through the Qinling Mountains - a habitat for rare wildlife, including the giant panda - will seek harmony between man and nature, according to those behind the project.
Vulnerable children living in one of China's poorest areas are receiving wearable high-tech devices to help keep them safe.
Recent torrents in southern China have left at least five people dead and resulted in direct economic losses of about 37 million yuan ($5.5 million), as some areas in the region were battered by two major storms in succession over two days.
The designers of a popular interactive program that lets netizens create pictures of themselves in People's Liberation Army uniforms have shot down a rumor that the program is an internet fraud.
Initial shipments of Cervarix, the first vaccine for cervical cancer to be approved for use on the Chinese mainland, has passed inspection by Chinese quality authorities and is heading to health clinics across the country, pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday.
As Beijing celebrates the two-year anniversary of its successful bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, China's most-decorated winter Olympian couple is embracing a new role in promoting winter sports.
Scientists in Yunnan province have strong evidence that sun bears live in China.
A fine fowl perches on a fine tree, as the old Chinese saying goes, but in Nagqu prefecture in the northern part of the Tibet autonomous region, there are simply no trees, fine or otherwise.
Wang Hang, 28, joined the People's Liberation Army in 2009, when he was a second-year student at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Jia Na was admitted to Tsinghua University in 2005. In 2007, she joined the People's Liberation Army, becoming the first female recruit from Tsinghua since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
World's largest military force has seen role in global governance grow substantially since its founding nine decades ago
Swiss food giant Nestle assured consumers that batches of infant formula distributed by its Shanghai branch, which quality authorities found to be substandard, pose no health risk.