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BEIJING, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- China's anti-graft chief on Wednesday urged local supervision authorities to beef up efforts to promote clean and efficient local governments. ...

BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao said here on Sunday that the Beijing Olympic Games have promoted the Olympic spirit of solidarity, friendship and peace. ...

BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- More foreign leaders have sent telegrams and letters recently to congratulate China on the complete success of the Beijing Olympics between Aug. 8 and ...

BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Friday urged more efforts in preparing for next month's Beijing Paralympic Games, during an inspection tour of...

BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Beijing has done such a good job in transforming the Olympic city into a Paralympic city that the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Ph...

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...

Movies will be shown in rural areas for free in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province. A man uses a projector to play free movies for villagers in Zaozhuang of Shandong Province on Thu...

BEIJING -- Beijing's must-go tourist attractions have been turned accessible for the disabled, as the city woos athletes and visitors to the Paralympic Games and fulfills its p...

BEIJING -- A total of 4, 000 visitors, natives and foreigners, flocked to the Shanghai World Financial Center on its first opening day to have a sightseeing on Saturday, the Orient...

BEIJING - The country's top 500 giants are narrowing gap with foreign counterparts, but they still lag behind, the China Enterprise Confederation announced in its release of th...

BEIJING - China Shenhua, the country's largest coal producer, saw firs-half net profits rise to 14.15 billion yuan (US$2.07 billion), up 43.6 percent from the same period last ...

Some temporary measures brought in to tackle pollution in Beijing during the Olympic Games are set to become permanent, in a bid to address continuing environmental challenges, des...

BEIJING - The athletes' village for the Beijing Paralympics opened on Saturday. The village, which was transformed from the Olympic Village, will be home to more than 7,000 ...

Cheng Fei (2nd Right), a member of delegation of Olympic gold medalists, shakes hands with her fans in Hong Kong on August 29, 2008....

Air hostess Jiang Kangkang smiles as she performs a sign language song "Smiling" on board, August 30, 2008. Chinese air hostesses get ready for more hearing-challenged pass...

Athletes village for Beijing Paralympics opens GOV.cn Saturday, August 30, 2008 Athletes of Chinese delegation walk through the Paralympic village in Beijing, Chi...

BEIJING - China on Thursday rebuked the proposal by a few countries on Taiwan's participation in the United Nations specialized agencies, saying it infringed upon its sovereign...

Piano prodigy Lang Lang claimed piano represented modern China when referring to his performance at the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony. It is arguable whether piano best represen...

BEIJING - Six of China's centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are searching for six general legal counsels from both home and abroad through open competition, ...

While China's rapid economic growth has indeed increased demand for commodities in general, the weak dollar and speculation are the real causes of the huge spikes in internatio...

In the beautiful capital of Dushanbe, which is located in Hissar valley in the south of Tajikistan known for its vast expanse and meandering mountain ranges, the newly-built Palace...

Chinese President Hu Jintao, in a keynote speech Thursday at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tajik capital Dushanbe, made a five-point proposal for joi...

BEIJING, Aug. 29 -- Bank of China, the country's third largest bank by assets, posted a 42.78 percent growth in first-half net profit, the only domestic listed bank reporting a...

BEIJING, Aug. 29 -- The government is working on a plan to boost the country's annual grain output by 10 percent by 2020, an industry expert said Thursday. Song Tingming...

BEIJING, Aug. 29 -- The per capita income of people in China's rural areas rose 10.3 percent in the first half of 2008, the greatest increase for the six-month period for four ...

BEIJING, Aug. 29 -- The world's third-tallest building and the newest addition to Shanghai's high-end office and hotel markets will open to the public tomorrow, 14 years af...

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...

BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The increase in China's retail sales volume exceeded 20 percent year on year in the last eight months and is still accelerating, enough to sustain ...

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 number of phone users in China had exceeded 960 million as of July, including over 600 million mobile phone users, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) sa...