Currently, learners are required to take courses at driving schools before sitting theory and practical tests. They have to pay for the courses up front, and the schedule for lessons and exams is decided by the schools, most of which are located in r...
Officials of north China's Jing-Jin-Ji region, involving Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province, have pledged a joint effort to combat air pollution. Yin Hailin, deputy mayor of Tianjin Municipality, stresses the importance of working together. The Jin...
Statistics show that the volume of China's direct investment abroad in the first 10 months of this year has increased by 16.3% compared to last year, surpassing 95 billion U.S. dollars. The volume last year was 45.6 times as much as in 2002. Zhang Xi...
Fusion is how stars produce energy. It occurs when the nuclei of light atoms, such as hydrogen, are fused together under extreme pressure and heat. Tokamak Energy, from Oxfordshire, believes that the third version of their compact, spherical tokamak...
National Railway's Test Become Intellectual Challenge: Ticket Buyers With the Spring Festival Holiday right around the corner, huge numbers of people are already going online, booking train tickets for the most important vacation of the year. However...
A series of actions have been taken in China to fight against corruption, and observers say they have made much progress. Earlier this year, China launched an anti-corruption campaign called 'Skynet', a move designed to capture corrupt officials accu...
Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize for her discovery of the drug Artemisinin. The drug has proved a highly effective treatment for malaria, saving millions of lives around the world. During her Nobel lecture she was happy to share the secrets of h...
Municipal authorities in Beijing announced plans to upgrade from orange to red on Monday night, marking the first-ever time a red-alert has been issued for Beijing since the 4-tiered color-coded system for smog was instituted 3-years ago. The red-ale...
Official data shows close to 54-hundred people in China donated more than 14-thousand body parts through the first ten months of this year. Both figures are the highest ever recorded in China. Speaking to a forum on organ donation this week in Hunan'...
Israel Holds Chinese Food Workshops to Get Prepared for More Chinese Visitors At a professional culinary school in central Israeli city of Tel Aviv, Chinese chef Chen Qing is giving a Chinese food workshop to Israeli hotel and restaurant chefs, as we...
Artemisinin, also known as QingHaoSu in Chinese, was discovered by Chinese scientist Tu Youyou. She received the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for the drug's discovery by her team more than three decades ago. In her speech at the Karol...
The video began circulating via Weibo last week in China. In it, a self-proclaimed Living Buddha named Baima Aose, is seen ordaining mainland actor Zhang Tielin as a living Buddha himself as part of a ceremony in Hong Kong. The controversy stems from...
On a cold October day this year in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, about 100 scientists were busy preparing to test their independently developed high-altitude airship. After a 22 hour flight around 20 kilometers above the earth, the airshi...
Shanghai Takes Measures against Rising Sea Levels Zhang Zhenyu, of the Shanghai Flood Risk Information Center spokesperson, said the seawalls virtually encircle half of the city. These are all the sea walls we have built, including from Hangzhou Bay...
The Johannesburg summit was the second of its kind under the 15-year-old framework of FOCAC, which groups China, 50 African countries that have established diplomatic ties with China, and the Commission of the African Union. Attended by the Chinese P...
