The bridge will be suspended across Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon in scenic Zhangjiajie National Park in central China's Hunan Province. When completed, project engineers say the bridge will be 300 meters above ground and 430 meters in length. The bridge...
Wing Tan studies Geography at Hong Kong Baptist University. She spent a month at the Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources in Ning Xia in Northwest of China. She says she was fortunate to have the opportunity. I've traveled to some regions but I've...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met with a top aide to Syria's president here in Beijing. During the meeting, Wang Yi told Bouthaina Shaaban that China has three suggestions over the ongoing crisis in Syria. He calls on all the anti-terror measu...
The Chinese government plans to lift all of its people out of poverty by 2020, a top priority for its next five-year development plan. Guo Weimin, a senior official from the State Council, saidpoverty relief is a major goal for the next five years. P...
A 5-day stop-over by a group of Chinese naval vessels in Poland is coming to an end this Sunday. CRI's Wang Mengzhen has more. The flotilla of three Chinese naval vessels arrived at the Port of Gdynia on Wednesday to help mark the 66th anniversary of...
Chinese authorities have so far handled 92 major cases, involving over 800 billion yuan, or 126 billion US dollars, of embezzled money transferred through underground banks and offshore companies. This is part of the wider Operation Skynet campaign,...
Heavy smog again blanketed northern China during this past week's National Day holiday, with straw burning mostly blamed. The state environmental protection bureau says they identified some 400 burning sites in nine different provinces in the north o...
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying says that the inscription gives the Nanjing Massacre recognition across the international community. The files show the atrocities of Japanese troops in the killing of 300,000 Chinese civilians and u...
It appears ride-hailing services that compete with taxis will soon have official approval in China. The country's transport regulator has released two first-of-their-kind draft regulations permitting such companies to operate. The two draft regulatio...
Chinese piano virtuoso Lang Lang joined Cuban jazz legend, Chucho Valdes for an electrifying outdoor concert in the historic Cathedral corner in Old Havana on Friday to mark the 500th anniversary since the founding of one of the oldest cities in the...
The latest data from Chinese health authorities shows around 15-percent of the population in China, or as many as 200-million people in China, suffer from some form of mental health issues. Of them, more than 4-million are believed to be suffering fr...
Researchers from Oxford University, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Chinese Centre for Disease Control conducted two large, nationally representative studies, fifteen years apart. They calculate the annual number of tobacco deaths ha...
The decision was made during a three day meeting of UNESCO from October 4 to 6 in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, following a two-year process as part of the 2014-2015 nomination cycle during which 88 submissions from 61 countries were examined....
More than a thousand Chinese who took the International English Language Testing System test in July and August have been told their results would be delayed or permanently withheld. The cancellation affects examinees mainly based in Changsha, Hunan...
Data from Chinese bank card company UnionPay shows consumer spending on tourist-related activities during the National Holiday increased by nearly 45-percent compared to the same period last year. UnionPay claims its stats show spending on transporta...
