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Shanghai's shopping malls and office buildings are being urged to close on extremely hot days this summer to save power for residents' use in the midst of a shortage of supply.
Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, a world heritage site in NW China's Gansu Province, was temporarily closed to visitors as of Thursday because of torrential rains, according to local sources.
A woman, who sold expired food to small restaurants, was detained in Beijing's Daxing district on Thursday. Her motor tricycle was filled with hams and cooked pigs' feet that were past their sell-by date.
In a move to relieve the city's population pressure, Beijing will introduce stricter restrictions on hukou, the permanent residency permit, for college graduates this year, a senior official said.
After a series of administrative changes to urban divisions last year, China currently has 657 cities at all levels, said a report released by the country's Ministry of Civil Affairs Thursday.
The State Council on Thursday published a comprehensive plan to protect the environment and ecology on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau over the next 20 years.
Repeating these actions, the man who claimed to be a performance artist, Pian Shankong, said he wanted to call for animal protection through these gestures, the paper said.
Qinghai-Tibet electricity network project will be completed by the end of this year, which will connect the power grid of the Tibetan plateau with other parts of China, local authorities said Wednesday.
Authorities in Dast China's Zhejiang Province said Wednesday they had arrested the driver of a truck which hit another causing the latter to leak a toxic chemical into a river.
The disease control center in suburban Changping district on Tuesday started all-round disinfections in a community where a resident and some pets were suspected of being bitten by ticks last week.
The city has launched a blood drive to encourage more people to donate to address seasonal blood shortages and ensure supply security.
Li Lv, a man in his 80s, paints a cabbage-shaped bronze sculpture in Yangzhou, East China’s Jiangsu province, June 13, 2011.