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01 Jul 08 visit Lantern Festival embraced with joys after snow disaster Chinese have celebrated the Lantern Festival, the formal end to the lunar new year festivities, Thursday across the country with joys after the worst snow disaster in 50 years.
01 Jul 08 visit China vows to promote home care for elderly China will aggressively develop support services for home care for the elderly over the next three years, given that those above 60 account for more than 11 percent of the 1.3 billion population.
01 Jul 08 visit Unprecedented press access to CPPCC The media will get an unprecedented level of access to all 56 panel discussions of the first plenary session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee (CPPCC) next month, Hong Kong-based newspaper Ta Kung Pao...
01 Jul 08 visit Scientists: Rising seas threaten erosion on shores Large swathes of deltas along China's shore are threatened by erosion as sea levels rise, oceanic authorities said.
01 Jul 08 visit Rural facilities improved: Survey Rural infrastructure and social services have improved remarkably in recent years, thanks to government efforts to boost the countryside, the nation's latest agriculture census has revealed.
01 Jul 08 visit Direct farm subsidies to help post-disaster reconstruction China is allocating billions of farm subsidies in advance to support spring ploughing as part of its post-disaster reconstruction efforts, Xinhua learnt from the Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Thursday.
01 Jul 08 visit Donations for snow-hit areas reach 1.53 bln yuan Public donations for China's snow-hit areas have reached 1.53 billion yuan (214 million U.S. dollars), the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Thursday.
01 Jul 08 visit Coast guards to get 7 law-enforcing vessels China will build and deploy seven law-enforcing vessels for its coast guard operations in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zones in the coming three years.
01 Jul 08 visit US$5.3 billion allocated to improve water infrastructures China has allocated 38 billion yuan (5.3 billion U.S. dollars) for water infrastructure this year, an increase of 11.8 percent on the financial input for 2007, Chen Lei, Water Resources minister said on Thursday.
01 Jul 08 visit National police clamp as sex photos spread Chinese police have launched a nationwide online crackdown to delete pornographic pictures of several Hong Kong celebrities and pledged to close any websites that published the raunchy photos.
01 Jul 08 visit China saw 80 million less farmers 1996-2006 The number of rural Chinese following the plough shrank by more than 80 million between 1996 and 2006, according to the results of a national agriculture census released online on Thursday.
01 Jul 08 visit 'Lantern Festival should be formal holiday' Netizens on a Chinese portal website are pushing to have the Lantern Festival, which falls on Thursday -- the equivalent of Jan. 15 on the lunar calendar -- designated as a legal holiday.
01 Jul 08 visit Red Cross receives $33 mln for snow victims The Red Cross Society of China on Thursday announced that it had received 239 million yuan (33.4 million U.S. dollars) in cash and relief supplies for areas affected by the severe winter weather.
01 Jul 08 visit Chang'e-1 to meet moon eclipse today China's first lunar probing satellite, Chang'e-1, will be put to test Thursday morning when the Earth eclipses the Sun and blocks the supply of solar energy.
01 Jul 08 visit Railway ready for student rush China's railway sector is gearing up for a new wave of peak travel as the student rush looms, the Ministry of Railway (MOR) said on Wednesday.
01 Jul 08 visit China lauds reform on 11th anniversary of Deng's death No major official celebrations were held to mark the 11th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's death Tuesday, but other reminders of the late paramount leader's legacy seem to be everywhere in China as the country welcomes the 30th year of its economic reforms.
01 Jul 08 visit 10 students chosen for Arctic adventure Ten college students have been chosen for a two-week Arctic visit starting next Thursday, which aims to arouse greater public attention to China's polar research.
01 Jul 08 visit New approach to patent trials Foreign experts will be allowed to take part in patent rights trials involving foreign parties, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said yesterday.
01 Jul 08 visit Judge guarantees fair play in all IPR cases Chinese courts adhere to national treatment principles and abide by international conventions to protect the rights of foreign holders of intellectual property rights, a senior judge told a national conference on IPR-related trials yesterday.
01 Jul 08 visit Private firms biggest employer to graduates: survey Private domestic companies became the biggest employers of Chinese graduates in 2007, according to the latest survey released in Beijing on Monday.
01 Jul 08 visit Boom year for space launches A record number of spacecraft will be launched this year, a top scientist revealed yesterday.
01 Jul 08 visit Railway traveler flow hits record after holiday The number of railway travelers in a single day reached an all-time high on Saturday at 5.15 million, up 4.7 percent from last year's Spring Festival travel peak, China's Ministry of Railways (MOR) announced on Sunday.
01 Jul 08 visit Spielberg slashed by Chinese, but his movies still admired The Chinese people have expressed their bafflement and disappointment these days over Hollywood director Steven Spielberg's quit from 2008 Beijing Olympics, but they still admire the Oscar winner's artistic achievements.
01 Jul 08 visit Chinese state councilor leaves for Britain, Japan, ROK Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan left here on Saturday for visits to Britain and Japan at the invitation of the governments of the two countries.
01 Jul 08 visit Lunar satellite takes on challenge of the eclipse China's space technicians are preparing for the first major challenge faced by lunar satellite Chang'e 1 when the Earth eclipses the sun and blocks the supply of solar energy next Thursday.
01 Jul 08 visit DNA sampling used to save tigers Siberian tigers kept at a reserve in Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, are being given a dose of selective breeding to prevent genetic degeneration of the species, park officials have said.
01 Jul 08 visit Disaster relief work achieving results Relief work in the snowstorm-hit areas is progressing well, officials said on Friday.
01 Jul 08 visit China to expand rural healthcare system China's rural cooperative medical care system is to expand to cover all rural residents by the end of 2008 and government spending on the system will be sharply increased, Vice Premier Wu Yi said at a national conference on Friday.
01 Jul 08 visit Snows not to affect macro control policy The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Friday the snow plaguing southern China would not affect the country's pre-determined macroeconomic control policies.
01 Jul 08 visit China approves another two stock funds to boost equity market Another two closed-end stock funds have won regulatory approval, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said on Friday.
01 Jul 08 visit Social workers to sit 1st proficiency test The first Nationwide Proficiency Test of Social Workers will be held June 28-29, marking a milestone in the social worker assessment system, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
01 Jul 08 visit More unmarried women than men Why are there more unmarried women than men, noting that the female population is less than the male population in China at present? A report on a survey of Chinese netizens' attitudes towards courtship and marriage might provide the answer.
01 Jul 08 visit Chang'e I will encounter eclipse Up to zero hour on February 15, Chang'e I has notched up its 100-day safety record, with 1135 flights circling the moon. The lunar probe has been working well and it will encounter a lunar eclipse for the first time on February 21, the Chinese Lantern...
01 Jul 08 visit Snow-affected areas start reconstruction Areas of China affected by the recent severe weather have shifted from emergency work to reconstruction, with transport and power supplies returning to normal.
01 Jul 08 visit Survey: girl students go for stable, high-paid jobs A recent survey indicates that female college students consider high salary, stability, and career development as three most important factors they will consider after graduation.
01 Jul 08 visit Fires during Spring Festival claim 59 in China Fifty-nine people lost their lives in 10,360 fires during the Spring Festival holiday in China, according to the fire control bureau of the Ministry of Public Security on Wednesday.
01 Jul 08 visit 107 dead, US$15.4 billion lost due to snow The back-to-back blizzards and icy rains that struck southern China in the past month have killed at least 107 people and left eight missing, as of Tuesday, a senior official said Wednesday.
01 Jul 08 visit Railways carry 24 mln during Spring Festival Chinese railways had carried 24.47 million passengers during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday, the Ministry of Railways said on Wednesday.
01 Jul 08 visit 18.6 mln ha of forest damaged in winter storm The extreme weather that hit China in recent weeks has damaged 18.6 million hectares of forest in 19 snow-afflicted provincial regions, the State Forestry Administration announced here Wednesday.
01 Jul 08 visit Male nurses scarce in China There is something strange regarding the emerging occupation of male nurses in China. Advertisements claim they are in demand, yet many well-trained male nurses are looking for employment; some are trying to change their job, according to media reports.
01 Jul 08 visit Millions on the move at post-festival travel peak The start of China's post-Spring Festival travel peak proved a relatively smooth affair as no major traffic problems were reported on Tuesday at a time when millions were returning to their place of work.
22 Feb 08 visit Visitors to Olympics urged to get permits Beijing police will begin to check temporary residence permits from tomorrow.
22 Feb 08 visit Airport in Beijing beefs up security measures Police at Beijing Capital International Airport are about to take delivery of new hi-tech devices intended to fight terrorism during the Beijing Olympic Games this summer.
22 Feb 08 visit Commuters in Beijing asked to give up bus seats Beijing authorities yesterday launched "Seat-giving Day" to encourage people on public transport to give up their seats to those in greater need, in the latest bid to improve civic-consciousness ahead of the Olympics.
22 Feb 08 visit New bins for sorting waste in Shanghai Residents in Shanghai were given new garbage bins yesterday to help them reduce waste and recycle more.
22 Feb 08 visit Favoring foreign products 'improper' It was "improper" to consider only foreign brands when calling for public tenders in governmental procurements, Guangzhou's vice-mayor said yesterday.
22 Feb 08 visit Beijing becomes China's largest advertising market Beijing is China's largest advertising market with revenues of 31.3 billion yuan (4.4 billion U.S. dollars) last year, up 21 percent from 2006.
22 Feb 08 visit Paraglider dies after East China Sea plunge A man piloting a powered paraglider died on Thursday afternoon after his aircraft suffered a mid-air breakdown and plunged in the East China Sea off Fujian Province.
22 Feb 08 visit ATM 'thief' back in court A court in south China on Friday began a rehearing of the case of a 24-year-old migrant worker who was jailed for life last year for taking cash from a malfunctioning automatic teller machine.
22 Feb 08 visit Freeway accident kills 15, injures 25 Fifteen people were killed and 25 injured in a freeway accident in Hunan Province, central China, on Monday.

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