• Efforts urged to build new socialist countryside

    Efforts urged to build new socialist countryside

    HAIKOU, Feb. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The publicity chief of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Saturday completed a four-day tour around farms in the southern province of Hainan, and called for efforts to build new socialist countryside.Liu …
  • On a day for love, it is a matter of dates

    On a day for love, it is a matter of dates

    Tan Huimin has been looking forward to her Valentines rendezvous tonight with her single friends who also do not have a date.The 26-year-old designer will join them for dinner at a hotpot restaurant and belt out karaoke numbers later."Valentines Da…
  • Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

    A girl chooses roses, each of which is sold for 199 yuan, at a flower shop on the eve of Valentines Day February 13, 2006 in Shenyang, Northeast Chinas Liaoning Province. Valentines Day is getting increasingly popular in China.A pair of dogs made of flo…
  • Top planner: Oil refinery capacity 'must rise'

    Top planner: Oil refinery capacity 'must rise'

    The nations top economic planner has warned that oil-refining facilities are stretched to the limit and urged that capacity be increased.The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) also suggested that prices of refined-oil products, which are …
  • Lantern Festival

    Lantern Festival

    A Chinese woman walks under lanterns in Yu Garden in Shanghai February 12, 2006. Chinese people celebrate on Sunday the traditional Lantern Festival which marks the last day of the 15-day long Spring Festival. [Reuters]A Chinese woman poses in front of …
  • Dependence on oil needs to be cut: NDRC

    Dependence on oil needs to be cut: NDRC

    The central government is working on a long-term plan to increase the use of alternative fuels to reduce the dependence on oil.Coal gas and renewable energy sources such as biomass and solar power are expected to become "major alternatives," a…
  • Forbidden City to undergo overhaul within 3 years

    Forbidden City to undergo overhaul within 3 years

    BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinas Forbidden City, one of the worlds largest imperial palaces, will undergo overhaul in the coming three years, Beijing News reported Saturday.The move was aimed to restore the imperial grandeur of the palace halls an…
  • Bats, mice to be moved out from Dunhuang grottoes

    Bats, mice to be moved out from Dunhuang grottoes

    BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- A new security system at the Dunhuang grottoes will help protect the famous ancient murals from temperature fluctuations and bats and mice.The installation will start in March, and the system will monitor the 700 caves of…
  • Xi'an museum of neolithic relics, culture to reopen

    Xi'an museum of neolithic relics, culture to reopen

    XIAN, Feb. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The museum of the Banpo Ruins, the largest and best-preserved primitive village ever discovered in China, will reopen on April 1 after renovations, the curator has said.The protection hall built half a century ago above the …
  • Struggle to get black history into classrooms

    Struggle to get black history into classrooms

    PISCATAWAY, New Jersey (AP) -- Assemblyman William Payne recalls the first book he heard as a kindergartner in the 1940s, and never forgot the black stereotypes that filled the 19th century childrens story."You grow up with these subliminal message…
  • School expense biggest burden for Chinese family: Survey

    School expense biggest burden for Chinese family: Survey

    In China, urban and rural dwellers spend most of their family income on childrens education, which is increasingly becoming the main cause of poverty for households, according to a recent survey.The conclusion is based on a national survey of 4,128 peop…
  • Income-tax threshold raised for foreigners

    Income-tax threshold raised for foreigners

    Foreigners working in China have to pay personal income tax only if their monthly pay is above 4,800 yuan (US$592), up from the previous threshold of 4,000 yuan (US$493), Xinhua reported yesterday.The revised law on personal income tax became effective …
  • Experts predict modernization progress

    Experts predict modernization progress

    China will have to make tremendous efforts if it is to become a moderately developed country by the middle of this century, according to experts.He Chuanqi, director of China Modernization Research Centre under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told Chin…
  • China opposes Japan's push for UNSC reform

    China opposes Japan's push for UNSC reform

    Chinas State Council on Thursday issued the guidelines on the national medium- and long-term program for science and technology development (2006-2020), which sets the proportion of research and development expenditure in the gross domestic product at 2…
  • Less restrictions on cross-straits chartered flights called for

    Less restrictions on cross-straits chartered flights called for

    Xinhua News Agency published a commentary on chartered passenger flights across the Taiwan Straits during the Spring Festival, asking when the restrictions on the chartered flights will be lifted.The chartered flights have been operated three times, in …
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