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The capital's population rose to 19.6 million in 2010, and a huge influx of migrants contributed to the growth, the city's statistics bureau said on Thursday.
With foreigners accounting for just 0.46 percent of its population, the capital is still far from being designated an international city, a leading expert said.
One in three Beijingers a migrant worker
Ao Cheng, a 10-year-old Ewenki boy, is reading loudly in the Ewenki language under his teacher's instruction in a primary school in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
The boss of a Hilton Hotel in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality was sentenced to life in prison by a local court on Wednesday for mafia-style crimes.
The story of a man who was allegedly confined for years to a mental health institution after he complained about being underpaid has led critics to ask whether the police overstepped their powers.
A fuel tank truck burst into flames on an expressway linking Chengdu with Chongqing in southwest China at about 4 pm Friday, leaving 7 people dead and 4 injured, local road safety watchdog told Xinhua.
The Chengdu High-tech zone in this capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan province will set up a special fund turning fruits of scientific research into marketable products, according to a forum held in the city on Thursday.
Giant pandas raised at the Wolong Nature Reserve in Southwest China's Sichuan province will have greater opportunities to get back to nature this year.
Buildings are shrouded in sand and dust in Turpan in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, April 28, 2011. A cold front whipped up sandstorms in Turpan city, lowering visibility to less than 30 meters.
Tim Hunt, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, gave an inspiring lecture to students at Dalian No.8 High School on Wednesday in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province.
Yang Qinggui lost his 19-year old son in the deadly magnitude 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake that struck Southwest China's Sichuan province on May 12, 2008.
Bailu, a township severely damaged by the 8.0 earthquake that struck Sichuan province on May 12, 2008, is at work building itself into a tourism destination with a French touch, 100 years after a French missionary built a Catholic church in the town.