A middle school in Qingyuan, Guangdong province, is amending a set of rules that restrict a wide range of interactions between male and female students, after images of the document were uploaded online that touched off a heated debate.
Relations between China and the United Kingdom are gaining momentum as British Prime Minister Theresa May is poised to begin the process of taking the UK out of the European Union.
Yuan Jinghua's brothers and sisters all got married before they were 20. Yuan, however, didn't get married until she was 25, as many young men were frightened away by her special "dowry" - 45 deaf-mute children.
Can China do it? This is the crucial question for the world's biggest and boldest economic, political and social experiment. At the core of understanding the country's prospects is the governance philosophy of its leader, Xi Jinping.
Thanks to a donation from an Italian businesswoman, doctors in Wuhan, Hubei province, have successfully performed pioneering surgery to help a man whose face was burned and disfigured 22 years ago when he was an infant.
In its quest to become a stronger manufacturer, China is on track to boost its global competitiveness through Made in China 2025, an initiative to accelerate energy efficiency and productivity, and to support investment in advanced technologies.
The 18th China Development Forum will cover international dialogues concerning crucial issues such as economic reform, struggling globalization and China-United States relations.
Regulations aimed at lowering risk, burden to be at center of new reforms.
Beijing will expand funding to reduce air pollution in 2017, including phasing out hundreds of thousands of automobiles and replacing coal furnaces in hundreds of villages, the municipal government said.
Beijing is aiming to eliminate the use of coal in six urban districts and 700 rural villages by the end of this year, officials said.
Beijing's new "green police squad" has launched its first joint crackdown on polluters with environmental protection inspectors.