China and France vowed to boost globalization and safeguard free trade by condemning rising protectionism after Premier Li Keqiang met with his visiting French counterpart on Tuesday.
Nobel laureate C.N. Yang and Turing Award winner Yao Qizhi have become Chinese citizens and officially joined the Chinese Academy of Sciences as academicians - the highest academic title in China, the academy's faculty office said on Tuesday.
At the entrance of an old, dilapidated residential community in downtown Shanghai, two women were going about their daily business. One of them was washing her hair in a sink, while the other used another sink to rinse out a spittoon.
It all started with a magician's performance at the court of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in the late 1760s.
Item from Feb 22, 1984, in China Daily: Workers supervise automatic equipment imported from Japan at the Beijing No 2 Pastry Factory.
Quality should take precedence over quantity when it comes to proposals from members of China's top political advisory body, officials said on Tuesday.
China extended its support to Mongolia on Monday for overcoming economic difficulties, as Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced a number of measures to help the debt-ridden neighbor.
An 8-year-old girl is continuing to eat more in the hope of gaining enough weight to meet a requirement for transplanting bone marrow to her ailing mother.
Six cities across Hebei, Henan and Shandong provinces have been named and shamed for failing to effectively tackle air pollution.
Most mothers in China feel they are happier after having a second child, according to a survey report released a year after the country relaxed its family planning policy.
The ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea denied on Monday confirming for Malaysian authorities that a man whose death is under investigation in Kuala Lumpur was Kim Jong-nam, the elder half-brother of DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un.
The recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas brought the usual buffet of brilliance. Phones so smart they would make an astrophysicist feel a bit silly. Clever cars and supermodel-thin TVs the size of football pitches. All very impressive, no doubt. But will all this wizardry really improve our lives? I'm not so sure. Here's a selection of gadgets someone needs to invent. And quickly.