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TAIYUAN, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang underscored the scientific outlook on development and production safety during an inspection tour to northern Shanxi Province...

BEIJING, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's top quality control official, Li Changjiang, resigned on Monday over the tainted milk scandal, becoming one of the highest-ranking officia...

BEIJING, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's chief quality supervisor Li Changjiang stepped down Monday afternoon with the approval of the State Council after tainted dairy products s...

BEIJING, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- With the first mid-autumn festival holiday nearly upon China, many people are asking 'what is it for?' An online survey by the website...

BEIJING, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese won four out of five table tennis gold medals at the Beijing Paralympic Games on Wednesday. The Paralympic table tennis tournament is d...

by Sportswriter Gao Peng BEIJING, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- With sports action at the Beijing Paralympics in full swing, China and Britain are competing for the top spot in term...

BEIJING, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- China has decided to allocate 600million yuan (about 87.7 million U.S dollars) to build 190 special schools for the disabled this year, an official sa...

BEIJING, Sept. 3 -- The heightened security witnessed in Beijing during the Olympics will remain for the duration of the Paralympics, the city's public security bureau said yes...

By Bai Xu BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing Olympics has witnessed so many superlative performances, most of which are set to go down in history. 1. Michael Ph...

Frank Fredericks, a Namibian former sprinter, a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as well as the Chairman of the Athletes' Commission of the IOC, have receiv...

The summer harvest was over. Watching a machine crush the wheat stubble in the field, Gao Chengli recalled the days when he was choked by smoke from burning straw and wary of lo...

BEIJING--Without Chinese Liu Xiang, Cuban Dayron Robles reaffirmed his dominance in the men's 110m hurdles with a commanding victory to win the Olympic title here on Thursday. ...

BEIJING, Aug. 18 -- The Olympic Games are not just about running faster or jumping higher, but they are also about looking better. While our athletes are competing in Beijing in hi...

By Sportswriter Gao Peng BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- China looked set to knock the United States off the top of Olympics medal table as the hosts' gold juggernaut was i...

BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Liu Xiang's head coach Sun Haiping broke into tears in the press conference while hailing his student as a "fighter". "He has be...

BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese celebrity hurdler Liu Xiang said on state television that he feels "very sorry" for his injury-forced withdrawal from the Olympic Games...

By Ji Shaoting and Lin Shiyun BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Icons of China such as the National Stadium, a major venue of the on-going Olympic Games, and ancient residences ...

BEIJING, Aug. 15 --As the Beijing Games continues to draw the attention of billions of sports fans worldwide, so the Olympex has been a carnival for philatelists and collectors of ...

By Sportswriter Chen Yu BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's all-conquering gymnast Yang Wei won the men's all-around title with a convincing 94.575 points here Thur...

By Sportswriter Yan Hao BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Before tonight, none of Chinese won an Olympic gold medal after she had a baby and none of Chinese judokas had ever succ...

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. swimming prodigy Michael Phelps began with a bang his quest for an unprecedented eight-gold at an Olympic Games, winning the men's 400m indivi...

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese basketball player and NBA star Yao Ming has been picked to hold the national flag at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games on Friday...

By Xinhua Writer Ren Ke BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- It is not the UN General Assembly, but more than 200 countries and regions sent delegates here. There is no fierce compet...

BEIJING, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- A security official dealing with the Olympics said here on Friday that China's military is capable of defeating any terrorist attempt during the Gam...

China is a multi-religious country. Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism, with the first three being more wide spread.Various religions exert different influence ...

China is administratively divided into 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 centrally administrative municipalities and 2 special administrative regions. Municipalities are direct...

BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Olympic pre-tournament training session of table tennis, which has been in operation since July 22,shut the door to media throughout the duration of Be...

BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Next month's Beijing Olympic Games was forecast to generate about 2 billion U.S. dollars of direct revenue for the host city, the People's Dail...

by Xinhua writers Meng Na and Qiu Hongjie BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Upon less than ten days in the run-up to the Beijing Olympic Games, worldwide athletes, coaches, jour...

BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The Olympic Village for the Beijing Games sprung to life Sunday with a grand opening ceremony to welcome its first delegation of Chinese athletes. ...