Public to receive fresh injection of TCM knowledge

Merely 9 percent of Chinese aged 15 to 59 have basic ideas about how to preserve health through traditional Chinese medicine, a nationwide survey...

Ability in English no longer needed for promotion

A recent policy change by top authorities means that people seeking higher ranks in technical and professional fields will no longer need to pass...

Public complaints about food, medicine increase in China

BEIJING - Public complaints about food and medicine hit 770,000 last year in China, an increase of 36.94 percent over the previous year, accordin...

Chinese-American Girl Returns to Look For Her Biological Parents

Yang Bing, whose English name is Erika Pioch, a Chinese-American girl who was adopted and brought to the U.S. 16 years ago, recently returned to ...

Female Cop Fighting China's Drug Traffickers

To most people who meet her Li Xiaoyan is just like any normal Chinese woman. After washing herself and putting on light makeup, she walks around...

City government considers relocating China's first public zoo

Parts of the 110-year-old Beijing Zoo may be relocated to improve the living conditions of the animals and ease traffic jams for visitors, an off...

Software-makers Claim App Can Make Walking at Night Safer for Women

A mobile app called Papa has recently emerged, designed to protect women who walk alone at night by offering user-friendly GPS tracking and alarm...

Super Senior Celebrates Her 110th Birthday in SW China

Zhong Shizhao, a woman who lives in a rural part of southwest China's Sichuan Province, celebrated her 110th birthday on March 26, arousing wides...

City asks public to choose eco-burials

Beijing will promote smaller tombs and ecologically friendly burials as it tries to persuade people to stop renting big tombs for the deceased, o...

G20 host city goes "spongy"

HANGZHOU - Hangzhou, the host city of this year's G20 summit, has launched a project to transform itself into a sponge, capable of soaking up rai...