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Chinese Enjoy Colorful Labor Day Holiday
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| In the week-long Labor Day holiday, Chinese not only want to celebrate their holiday securely, but in highly qualified and diverse ways. |
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China Re-elected Into UN Human Rights Commission
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| China has once again been voted in as a member of the United Nation's (UN) Commission on Human Rights. The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on Monday elected 15 new members to the Geneva-based Commission on Human Rights, including the United States who last year lost out. |
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Japanese Officials Urged to Correct Bias
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| Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan on April 30 urged Japanese leaders to adopt a "correct" attitude towards the aggression of China in the 1930s and 1940s. |
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Chinese Vice President Meets Leaders of US Congress
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| Visiting Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao met with leaders of the US Congress at the Capitol Hill, Washington, Tuesday and exchanged in-depth views with them on issues concerning China's WTO entry, anti-terrorism, Taiwan and non-proliferation weapons of mass destruction. |
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Chinese Parents Seek Standards for Foreigners Teaching in China
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| Many middle and primary schools in China try to attract students by conducting bilingual teaching and engaging foreign teachers. With the influx of more and more foreign teachers, concerns are beginning to be expressed for the first time by Chinese parents about foreign teachers' qualifications for teaching. |
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Hu Confident of Sino-US Economic Cooperation
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| Cooperation between Chinese and American enterprises will produce a win-win result that is mutually beneficial to the two countries, visiting Vice-President Hu Jintao said on Monday at a dinner hosted by the American Banks Association. |
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Beijing Olympics to Preserve Old City
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| Beijing is to keep its promise to preserve the city's historical look despite big construction program for the 2008 Olympic Games, reaffirmed an official in Beijing on Tuesday.
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HK PolyU Honors Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
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| The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) conferred the title of Distinguished Honorary Professor on three winners of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on campus Monday. |
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Chinese Explorer Succeeds
in Solo Trip to North Pole
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| Liu Shaochuang, an arctic explorer working with the Instititute of Remote Sensing Applications of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, planted the national flag of China at the North Pole on Saturday after becoming the first Chinese to reach the pole alone on foot. |
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CAAC to Add Flights for Holiday Travel
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| More Chinese people will be traveling during the Labor Day vacation and many of these people will choose to fly, according to an official with the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) who said flights would be added and charters arranged as needed to accommodate demand.
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White Paper on Labor and Social Security Published
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| The State Council Information Office today published a white paper titled Labor and Social Security in China. The full text of the white paper follows, giving an overview of what China has done and will do to guarantee citizens' rights to work and to enjoy social security. |
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Ancient Mummy Brought to Life Through Pictures
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| Four pictures were published on Sunday showing what a 2,200-year-old mummy found in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, might have looked like during her life. |
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Legislators Revise Laws on Imports and Exports
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| National legislators yesterday approved revisions to the 13-year-old law on the inspection of imports and exports in order to unify inspection standards on foreign and domestic goods. |
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Birth of Victor Hugo Commemorated in China
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| Guangzhou, capital city of south China's Guangdong Province, began a series of memorial events on Saturday marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great French writer, Victor Hugo. |
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Chinese, Macedonian Presidents Hold Talks
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| Following talks in Beijing Saturday, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski signed a joint statement between the two countries on consolidating and promoting friendly relations and cooperation. Trajkovski also reaffirmed there would be no official relations between his country and Taiwan.
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500 Million Chinese Farmers Drink Tap Water
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| Some 500 million Chinese farmers have drunk tap water and more than 100 million farmers have access to hygienic toilets, according to sources from the fourth national rural water administration reform meeting. So far a total of 674,000 waterworks have been built in the country's rural areas and 48.91 million motor-pumped wells have been dug.
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Beijing Seizes Imported Cosmetics as Mad Cow Disease Precaution
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| More than a dozen types of imported cosmetics from countries where mad cow disease has been found were seized in Beijing by the city's health and quarantine authorities during a recent market inspection. Seized products included perfumes, lipsticks and creams of famous brands like Chanel (France), Shiseido (Japan) and Nivea (Germany), according to Gu Qun, director with the supervision office under the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau. |
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China Seeks Foreign Direct Investment for Railway Project
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| Details of a project for a new railway ferry link between Yantai in east China and Dalian in northeast China were presented in Beijing Friday in order to draw direct foreign investment. This is a dramatic change in China's usual policy for financing railway construction projects. |
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Hu Makes Four-point Proposal to Singapore
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| Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao, who is on a two-day visit to Singapore, yesterday put forward a four-point proposal to expand cooperation between China and Singapore during a meeting with Prime Minister Goh Chok. |
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Wenzhou Lighter Makers Await EU Decision
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| Some 500 lighter makers in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, have been waiting anxiously for a final decision by the European Union (EU), which is just days away. If the law passes, Wenzhou faces losing its 70 percent share of the European market since tougher restrictions on child security standards would make lighters, particularly those made in Wenzhou, harder to sell. |
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