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| Vice Premier Wang Qishan on Friday said the Chinese government will accelerate the adjustment of China's economic structure and promote steady and rapid economic development. |
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| Ji Guomiao has been busily recruiting factory workers for the past week, hoping to run ranks of textile machines at full blast as soon as possible. |
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| China's premier said Friday that the country does not discriminate against foreign companies in terms of rare earth supplies, stating that policies and quotas for both domestic and foreign companies are the same. |
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| Provincial fishery authorities have told Xinhua how aquaculture in northern Hebei province has been hit by sea ice since January. |
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| The Zambia-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (ZCCZ) has generated around $500 million in tax revenue over the last five years, according to a press release from a ceremony held Friday to celebrate the zone's five-year anniversary. |
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| Best-selling author Han Han declared in his blog Friday that he would end his online squabble with anti-fraud campaigner Fang Zhouzi, who accused Han of using a ghostwriter. |
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| Recruiters sitting idle in Guangzhou, Guangdong province as fewer people apply for jobs. Businesses in the province are having difficulty in finding enough workers following China's Lunar New Year holiday. |
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| ĦĦĦĦPolice are seeking three teenagers suspected of brutally killing more than 10 stray cats over the Spring Festival holiday.
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| German Chancellor Angela Merkel left South China's Guangdong province on Saturday, concluding her fifth official visit to China since taking office. |
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| Mysterious benefactors are leaving cash in the mailboxes of residents at a city community, leading to intense speculation about their identity. |
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| Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has pledged to unwaveringly push forward opening-up and reform in the face of current challenges and difficulties, while calling for protection of farmers' rights to vote to improve rural community administration.
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| Icicles form on a vehicle covered in snow and ice in Bucharest, February 5, 2012. |
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| China's economic growth will decelerate to around 8.1 percent this year and edge up to 8.7 percent in 2013, Stephen Green, economist with Standard Chartered Bank (China), said Saturday. |
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| Two new foreign trade routes will be opened this year in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, local authorities said Friday. |
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| Two miners injured in a colliery gas explosion Friday in southwest China's Sichuan province died on the way to hospital, bringing the death toll from the accident to 13, local authorities said Saturday. |
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| China will carry out a special campaign to check potential safety problems of high-speed trains this year, the country's work safety supervision authorities said. |
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| A work team of China's Ministry of Commerce arrived here Saturday night to discuss with Libyan authorities on protecting assets of Chinese companies and its participation in the North African country's post-war reconstruction. |
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| The money was deducted from teachers' bank accounts without their permission and given to a local branch of the China Charity Federation |
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| Clashes between Egyptian riot police and protestors in Cairo have left 388 people injured on Thursday night, one day after a riot killed 74 people in a stadium in Port Said, state TV reported.
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| Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo on Friday pledged to further exchanges with German legislative bodies so to contribute to the development of overall bilateral relations.
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| The death toll of a football match riot in Egypt's Port Said rose to 74 with hundreds of others injured, state media reported on Wednesday night.
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| Over 80 people have died from hypothermia and frostbite in Poland and Ukraine, as a cold snap affected a large part of Europe, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Thursday.
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| The U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday that Wegelin &Co., Switzerland's oldest private bank, has been charged with conspiring with Americans and others to hide huge amount of client assets from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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| Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani announced in the parliament Thursday evening that he would appear before the Supreme Court in a contempt proceedings on Feb. |
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| Kodjo Menan, Togolese UN ambassador who holds the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council for Feb.In October, Russia, together with China which is one of the five permanent council members, vetoed an European draft resolution on Syria. |
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| The UN Security Council met again behind closed doors Wednesday afternoon to discuss the Arab-European draft resolution on Syria, as council members failed to reach agreement on the issue after a closed-door session and an open meeting with the Arab League. |
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| He said that Russia supports consensus on the Syria resolution in the UN Security Council because Moscow believes there is still a chance to resolve the Syrian crisis politically. |
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| China has maintained normal economic and trade cooperation with Iran in view of its need for economic development, said Wen, adding China opposes the politicizing of the normal trade relationship. |
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| A teenager who fell out of the window of his 5th-floor home in the northeast province of Heilongjiang last Friday was saved by a neighbor who happened to be at the scene. |
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| A number of people from Zheng's village have been working in Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant, and he said that they told him the salary there was OK.By the end of January, Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant, which started production in August, employed 130,000 workers, 123,000 of whom were locals. |
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| If it strengthens its trade protection measures to restrain other countries exports, other countries will definitely restrain the United States' export too, which will go against the United States' original intention. |
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| Qingzhou, east China's Shandong Province, is shrouded in dense fog, January 31, 2012. |
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| To help preserve the ancient medical practices, Ai has been tutoring 49 students as part of a Dai ethnic medicine program being offered at the Xishuangbanna Vocational and Technical Institute. |
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| China's shrinking labor force, partly as a result of the one-child policy, has forced companies to raise salaries and offer better working conditions for migrant workers. |
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| China is mulling a new round of efforts to regulate the sizzling property market after the moves it imposed about a year ago to limit purchases of residential apartments effectively brought down prices, analysts said Tuesday. |
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| China contended the restrictions that were placed on the materials on the basis of protecting the environment and exhaustible resources.ĦĦĦĦ |
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| China's bonds issued in 2011 totaled 7.8 trillion yuan (1.24 trillion U.S.The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said in a statement posted on its website that the bond market experienced sound development last year and played an active role in implementing macro economic policy and optimizing resource allocation. |
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| Twenty-five Chinese nationals working for a cement factory in Egypt were held Tuesday by some local people in the northern Sinai town of Arish, officials at the Chinese embassy in Cairo told Xinhua. |
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| Seven chemical plant executives in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regionhave been detained for discharging industrial waste into a south China river, said local government on January 30, 2012. |
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| ĦĦĦĦThe Chinese mainland's top Taiwan affairs official has said that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait expect new chances for the development of cross-Strait relations based on upholding the "1992 Consensus." |
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| Several Chinese nationals remain missing after rebels attacked a construction site camp belonging to China's Power Construction Corp. |
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| ĦĦĦĦChina's government debt is at an "overall safe and controllable" level, said Premier Wen Jiabao, who pledged that funding for key projects would be ensured and steps would be taken to gradually digest the risks.
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| China will overhaul its current food standards, integrating new specifications and weeding out others in a move largely aimed at avoiding overlap and contradiction, the Ministry of Heath announced. |
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| The blogger disputed the originality of Han's works, accusing the post-80sauthor of hiring people to write for him.ĦĦ |
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| Fang Zhouzi, who is known as the "science cop" for exposing pseudoscience and academic fraud, said the suit against him by the young Chinese writer Han Han will not stop him continuing his analysis of Han's work. |
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| ĦĦĦĦ"My annual bonus stayed in my pocket for less than a week before it went out in the form of red envelopes," said Huang Yijing, a 30-year-old nurse from Shanghai, who forked out at least 1,000 yuan ($160) each to her nephews and nieces and gave 500 yuan or more to her friends' children. |
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| ĦĦĦĦ"I was not thinking about anything, but I acted on my instinct to save his life," said Xie, who only suffered minor injuries as a result. |
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| He said China faces difficult development tasks in 2012, and the government should keep pushing for economic and political reforms and strive to make breakthroughs in some key areas. |
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| The use of reflective glass curtain walls will be banned in apartment, hospital, school, kindergarten and nursing home structures that have two stories or more, a local construction official said in Shanghai on Tuesday, citing safety concerns.
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| A blizzard swept across parts of northeast China's Liaoning province Tuesday morning, forcing authorities to impose traffic restrictions on six major expressways.ĦĦĦĦ |
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| Four hospitals failed to report suspected cases of polio in a far northwestern region of China that experienced an outbreak of the disease last August, the regional government said Tuesday. |
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| A video of a man dancing in front of the gates of several Chinese universities in an effort to attract attention to the plight of rickets sufferers has recently become popular on the Internet. |
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| Defending China's Arctic research mission, Chinese officials and analysts have categorically dismissed a Japanese media report which said the country is "casting menacing eyes on" the Arctic.
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| Three people died and 14 others were injured after a farmer in Northeast China set his neighbor's house on fire Monday night, local authorities said Tuesday. |
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| A private charity in Beijing dismissed the allegation that it was involved in illegal organ trafficking as indicated by online photos that showed a dead girl's organs were removed in an autopsy. |
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| Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), delivered a speech at the 18th summit of the African Union on Sunday. |
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| Chinese President Hu Jintao appointed seven new ambassadors to foreign countries, according to a statement from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) on Sunday. |
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| Chinese scientists said Sunday that they have identified ten susceptibility genes for leprosy to date, a finding that will help identify high-risk individuals and aid in the prevention of the infectious disease. |
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| French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Sunday night that the spiraling financial crisis subsided as efforts to restore stability in the eurozone "bore fruit".
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| The Davos Annual Meeting draws conclusion on Monday, with eurozone debt crisis being the focal point throughout the five-day process and leaders not only from Europe but all across the world striving to seek solutions to the issue.
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| Chief of a leading global biotechnology company Life Technologies (Life Tech) on Sunday said that biotechnology and life sciences would be the prime driver of the economic growth in the 21st century.ĦĦ |
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| A necessity in Chinese traditional painting and calligraphy, ink was famously seen as one of the must-have items to equip an ancient Chinese study. |
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| Beijing's police and quality supervision authorities have launched a joint investigation into Sunday's escalator accident at a downtown department store that killed a 9-year-old boy. |
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| Chinese President Hu Jintao hailed the African Union (AU) as one of the most influential regional organizations in the world on Sunday as the bloc opened a summit in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia. |
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| The Syrian military entered Sunday some restive suburbs of the capital Damascus to confront what the government described as "armed terrorist groups," a witness told Xinhua anonymously.
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| The Arab foreign ministers will hold an urgent meeting at the Arab League (AL) headquarters in Cairo next Sunday on the Syrian issue, the AL deputy chief said Sunday. |
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| Greece depends on international loans since 2010 to escape default in exchange of a plan to exit the crisis, but missed targets have increased pressure for more harsh policies. |
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| Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos dismissed on Sunday the idea that a European Commissioner should oversee the execution of the Greek state budget, as the debt-laden country struggles to overcome a financial crisis with the support of international lenders. |
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| Novak Djokovic of Serbia poses with the trophy during the awarding ceremony for the men's singles final with Rafael Nadal of Spain at 2012 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 29, 2012. Djokovic won the champion by defeating Nadal 3-2. |
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| Liam Neeson's latest vehicle "The Grey" led a pack of three debuts as they opened among the top 10 most-popular films in North America over the weekend, all with impressive performances.
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| French President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to withdraw his forces from Afghanistan by 2013, a year ahead of 2014 set by the NATO for troops pullout, would bolster Taliban's morale in fighting NATO-led forces stationed in the country, Afghan analysts said Sunday. |
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| More than 20 Chinese nationals have gone missing after an attack by rebels against a camp belonging to a Chinese company operating at Sudan's South Kordofan area, the Chinese Embassy in Khartoum confirmed Sunday. |
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| Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh arrived in the United States Saturday for medical treatment, U.S.Saleh left Yemen last Sunday after the Yemeni parliament approved a law which granted him complete immunity from prosecution in line with a Gulf-brokered power transfer deal. |
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| The cadmium pollution in a river in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region following a spill from an industrial plant has been controlled and no new leakage has been found, local environmental authorities said Sunday. |
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| Defending Bundesliga champion Borussia Dortmund earned the first win at Hoffenheim in division history. |
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| The number of bakeries operated by self-employed individuals dropped from about 18,000 in 2003 to around 4,000 late last year, according to the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business. |
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| The friendship between the world's largest developing country and the continent home to mostly developing countries has lasted for over 60 years and touched the lives of over 2.3 billion people. |
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| Northeastern Liaoning Province received a record 5.35 million tourists during the period, an increase of 10.58 percent from a year earlier, it said.Southwestern Guizhou Province accommodated a total of 1.65 million visitors during the first four days, up 25.57 percent from the same period of last year, it said. |
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| The government of Afghanistan and United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Saturday appealed for 437 million U.S. dollars in aid to help needy Afghans in 2012. |
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| The People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC), ran a bylined commentary Saturday refuting criticisms made against the country's judicial reforms.
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| Though Congress is asking the Defense Department to cut spending, the Pentagon is still foreseeing more spending along the way, and its projected base budget for the fiscal year 2017 is 567 billion dollars. |
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| Chinese railway authorities said Saturday that the country's railway system has geared up for the upcoming post-holiday travel rush in addition to snow and rainfall in the southern regions. |
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| A readjustment of public spending in Europe could contribute to an economic slowdown and even cause a recession in the world economy, the head of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) said Thursday. |
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| A so-called fat tax on fattening foods has drawn mixed reactions from the South Korean public after the government voiced opposition to its introduction. |
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| Florida has 4.1 million registered Republicans and the contenders are fighting to win the state's 50 Republican delegates.ĦĦ |
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| The death toll of Costa Concordia accident rose to 17 on Saturday after the body of a woman was found in the cruise liner that ran aground off the Italian western coast on Jan. |
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| British police arrested four former or current journalists with the Sun and a police officer Saturday on bribing police, according to local media.According to Sky News, the arrested are The Sun's head of news Chris Pharo, 42, crime editor Mike Sullivan, 48, former managing editor Graham Dudman, 48, and Fergus Shanahan, 56, a former deputy editor. |
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| An armed group belonging to Sudan People's Liberation Army attacked Saturday a site of a Chinese company operating in the field of roads in South Kordofan state, the governor said. |
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| China's Central Military Commission (CMC) has issued a guideline on boosting advanced military culture as the urgent need to build the army while maintaining its nature and qualities both ideologically and politically. |
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| Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday accused Israel of foiling exploratory talks that were held in Jordan's capital Amman this month. |
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| Euro and the single currency, which are still young, have many deficiencies, but fears that the currency would collapse are overblown, a senior economist of an influential think tank said Saturday. |
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| Posing as French protector, French President Nicolas Sarkozy snatched a place at the Elysee Palace in 2007 after promising voters to bring to them security, work and wealth. |
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| A tourist from Shanghai has died after a road accident in eastern Taiwan's Hualien, the Cross-Straits Tourism Association's Taipei office confirmed with Xinhua on Thursday.ĦĦĦĦLi Guanyi, about 20 years old, visiting Taiwan as an independent tourist, was hit by a motorcycle when he walked from a train station to a hotel in Hualien on Tuesday. |
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| China accepted 2.65 million legal cases in the last five years, with the number growing each year by an average of 23.5 percent, and provided legal advice for 20.78 million people, the number growing 12.8 percent each year on average, said the Ministry of Justice on Thursday. |
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| Seven people were killed and at least 23 others injured in two road accidents in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Thursday, local authorities said. |
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| To date, 1,332 children have been brought home with the help of police and civil affairs authorities across the country, Xinjiang's regional government said yesterday. |
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| Although dragons may scare some people, many young Chinese couples are determined to have a child this year despite pressures their offspring may face in coming years.
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| China's Central Military Commission (CMC) has issued a guideline on boosting advanced military culture as the urgent need to build the army while maintaining its nature and qualities both ideologically and politically. |
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| The fire broke out at about 4:30 p.m. Friday in a forest near the city of Xichang in a remote prefecture with dominant ethnic Yi population, Liangshan prefecture publicity officials said. |
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| Water and environmental authorities in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region are working to control cadmium pollution in a local river, while ruling out the possibility that water sources for Hong Kong and Macao have been contaminated. |
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| Chinese railway authorities said Saturday that the country's railway system has geared up for the upcoming post-holiday travel rush in addition to snow and rainfall in the southern regions. |
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| Tourists from the Chinese mainland brought more than 5 billion U.S. dollars in profits to Taiwan's sightseeing sector in about three-and-a-half years, the island's mainland affairs department estimated on Saturday.
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| Firecrackers lit by Beijing residents to celebrate Chinese New Year left 183.7 tonnes of paper scraps, according to the capital's environmental sanitation group yesterday. |
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| In the 1950s, his plan to prevent modern development in the ancient city of Beijing was nipped.The government said Saturday that the demolition was not approved by the cultural heritage authorities and officials would investigate and deal with the case in accordance of the law. |
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| With the traditional Chinese Spring Festival around the corner, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has delivered a message wishing the Chinese people Happy New Year.ĦĦ |
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| Hosting the gathering, Hu, also General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, extended regards to Chinese people at home and abroad and foreign friends on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the Cabinet. |
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| Jiao Li, former president of China Central Television, was appointed deputy head of the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), and Hu Zhanfan, former editor-in-chief of the Guangming Daily, became Jiao's successor. |
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| The Hong Kong government will work with Chinese mainland authorities to hunt agents bringing pregnant mainland women to Hong Kong without an appointment, Director of the city's Immigration Eric Chan said Friday. |
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| As the Chinese Spring Festival travel rush enters its peak period, more work staff and transport resources have been deployed to ensure safe and convenient transport during the world's largest annual human migration. |
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| The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the country's largest electric power transmission and distribution company, said Saturday that the power supply will be sufficient during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday. |
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| China's safety watchdog said Saturday that the country will establish and improve its school bus safety management system over the next four years. |
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