World temperatures also hit a record high for the third year in a row in 2016.
Construction work on the country's first elevated bicycle path has been finished in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province, just before Spring Festival on Jan 27. The path is exclusively for bicycles, and electric bikes and other vehicles are prohibited.
China this week announced it will spend some $168 million to quench the thirst of its northwestern provinces.
The Chinese people are outraged over a remark by a Japanese hotel chain. The hotel chain refused the withdrawal of a book from its guest rooms which denies the Nanjing Massacre in China during the World War II.
Chinese surgeons applied German technology in extracting and growing cartilage outside a patient's body for 12 days and transplanting it on a patient's damaged knee.
Media blackout about Michael Schumacher’s health update has led to misleading reports and false rumors about the former F1 champion’s recovery.
Many Chinese singles dread going home to their families for the annual Chinese New Year festivities because they would be asked the question by well-meaning relatives and friends when are they getting married? Two unmarried locals would not only answer that question but even broadcast to the internet their answer which shocked their respective families.
A number of cities and regions in China have imposed stricter rules on the use of fireworks ahead of the Lunar New Year. The rules now require buyers to register their personal information and have reduced the number of retailers.
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently visited Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province and encouraged the organizers to host an extraordinary Winter Olympics on 2022. He stressed that the preparations should have rational planning and economic use of resources.
China will invest in 30 projects worth $3.7 billion for poverty alleviation in the Philippines.
While almost everyone is caught off guard by Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), China will likely be gaining big benefits. Meanwhile, other countries might feel that they can’t rely on the United States.
A former local government official from Poyang County, east China’s Jiangxi Province, and second name on the "100 most wanted" economic fugitive was sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption.
International organizations of judges, senior lawyers and jurists wrote anew to the Guardian to provide updates on how China has made little efforts or has exerted efforts to aggravate the situation of lawyers who have been detained by the government.
Another Chinese billionaire criticized the American government for its overspending on military contracts to fuel wars in various parts of the world.
The highest CVD risks were in countries in Central and Southeast Asia and in Eastern Europe.
