An elderly woman clutches two sticks as she walks up the narrow path of a mountain in the Meili range in Deqen county, Yunnan province, on a recent weekday.
China's fiscal revenue recorded faster year-on-year growth in June, adding to signs of structural improvement of the world's second-largest economy.
Hong Kong's High Court has thrown out four lawmakers of the Legislative Council for violating the legal requirements of oath-taking when being sworn in.
China is ready to mass-produce the CH-5 reconnaissance/combat drone, the nation's latest offering to the international military drone market.
The number of pregnant women older than 35 in China is expected to exceed 3 million each year between 2017 and 2020, an increase of 30 percent compared with the average level in the past several years, a senior health official said.
A "canteen" for wildlife in Southwest China's Yunnan province will be expanded to reduce friction between villagers and wild elephants that eat crops due to a food shortage.
Two months ago, postgraduate student Liu Hui traded in store-bought food for long days of picking vegetables, milling flour, and eating bugs.
Foreign direct investment into China stabilized in the first half of 2017, and the nation's outbound direct investment took a nosedive as authorities curbed irrational deals and fine-tuned the investment portfolio, Ministry of Commerce officials said on Thursday.
China and Canada should initiate negotiations on a free trade agreement as soon as possible, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday, while calling for joint efforts to promote bilateral trade.
China's imports from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have seen a drastic drop in the past four months and it "has strictly abided" by United Nations Security Council resolutions, a customs official said.
Construction teams rush to finish new, safer dwellings for displaced residents before temperatures plunge
A US federal grand jury indicted a 28-year-old former physics doctoral student on Wednesday in the June 9 kidnapping of visiting Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying.