As the weather warms, 80-year-old Xu Shiyou is finding it easier and easier to sell colored balloons outside a busy shopping mall in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province.
As soaring property prices force many to consider leaving Beijing for cheaper cities, a pilot project offering subsidized housing in the capital to nonlocal residents has made some to think again.
A 27-year-old woman is expected to have a nose and a mouth again after a series of surgeries in Shanghai.
Exit-entry inspection and quarantine officers in Beijing stopped more than 10,000 consignments of banned animals, plants and other items between January and March, an increase of 35 percent compared with the same period last year.
Shanghai police have taken over a case in which at least four foreigners were seen in a subway carriage eating a meal and drinking from goblets while sitting at a folding table on Friday, the subway operator said.
For generations, poets used the term bishui, or "emerald water", to describe Lake Taihu, China's third-largest freshwater body, famed for its scenery and clear water that reflected the surrounding green hills.
Without his walking stick and mud-soiled shoes, it would be easy to mistake the silver-haired, softly spoken Qin Boqiang for a professor of literature. Instead, he is the chief ecologist for Lake Taihu.
Algae pollution is a major threat to China's freshwater supply and ecosystem. Over the years, technology has become more effective at curbing algae blooms, but that will not be enough to cure the problem, ecologists said.
Yi Xiaoyuan had never been so "proud and nervous" in his life. On March 24, the 26-year-old computer science student looked on as the machine he had spent two years working on competed in its first "classical poem relay" at the Shanghai Science Hall.
During the annual gathering of national legislators and policy advisers at this year's two sessions, Zhu Hong prepared a cup of tea for each participant in her panel discussion using dried chrysanthemums she had brought from home.
Beijing residents could be rewarded with up to 500,000 yuan ($72,460) if they can provide useful information on spies or related activities, according to a government policy that took effect on Monday.