Chinese President Hu Jintao met his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy in Cannes on Wednesday ahead of a Group of 20 summit.
Eight people have been confirmed dead and 218 are being treated in hospital following the explosion of two trucks carrying dynamite in Southwest China's Guizhou province on Tuesday, according to officials.
Unrelenting media attention has brought hope, and a lot of disturbance, to a 10-year-old girl struggling through a difficult life.
Jumping in the water to save a drowning woman in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, seemed the right thing to do for Maria Fernanda.
President Hu Jintao has visited the Austrian National Library in Vienna and a farm in Salzburg, hometown of 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Hu's trip, the first by a Chinese president in 12 years, conveys the message of cultural exchange.
"Fog is not pollution," Du Shaozhong said in his micro blog on Monday morning, in response to a question about Beijing's poor air quality.
Nie Fangjun, a 79-year-old craftsman, paints a paper dragon at his studio in Fenghuang county, Central China’s Hunan province, Oct 30, 2011.
Thick fog continued to blanket China's eastern regions on Tuesday morning, the National Meteorological Center said, warning of increased traffic safety risks.
A modified model of the Long March CZ-2F rocket carrying the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou VIII blasts off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, Nov. 1, 2011.[Photo/Xinhua]
A plan to cultivate 1 million filial children in the next five years has sparked a fierce debate over whether children can be taught to feel grateful to their parents.