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Book Black Market to End
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| Parents have complained about black market textbooks for a long time, claiming many of the characters and words are printed incorrectly. Soon, all pirated textbooks and reference materials will be cleared from campuses in a renewed national campaign. |
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Hu Calls on Officials to Clean up Act
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| Top Chinese leader Hu Jintao Wednesday stressed more efforts should be made to eliminate corruption, admitting the country is still struggling to root out the scourge. |
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Market Forces to Decide Prices
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| The central government is carrying out institutional reform to allow market forces to decide prices within the power, aviation and rail sectors, said Zhao Xiaoping, director-general of the Pricing Department of the State Development Planning Commission. |
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More Job Opportunities for Laid-off Women
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| Some 80,000 community-based service providers in China are expected to expand in the near future to help train and employ more than 6 million laid-off women, said Gu Xiulian, vice-president of the All-China Women's Federation Tuesday. |
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Chinese, Thai Leaders Discuss Free Trade Zone
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| Premier Zhu Rongji pledged that China will abide by its commitments and take measures to foster a Sino-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) free trade zone to promote the economic development of ASEAN countries and prosperity in the region. |
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New Cautionary Student Conduct Code
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| The Beijing municipal government has revised its 15-year-old student code and deleted the clauses encouraging youngsters to pointlessly sacrifice their lives in emergencies. The new code of conduct was introduced to 1.7 million primary and middle school students Monday. |
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Projects Help Tibetans to Have Clean Water
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| Thanks to new drinking water projects, 188,000 farmers and herdsmen in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, were able to access clean drinking water by the end of last year. |
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Shenzhou V to Be Launched This Autumn
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| The American space shuttle Columbia tragedy won't affect the schedule of China's manned spaceship program, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Shenzhou V will be launched as originally planned, around autumn this year. |
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More Investment for Children's Vaccination Program
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| Chinese medical chiefs have vowed to inoculate all babies against the debilitating disease hepatitis B after a 14-month vaccination scheme was hailed as a great success. |
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Lantern Festival and Valentine’s Day Celebrated in Tandem
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| China’ s Lunar Lantern Festival, coinciding closely with Valentine’s Day this year, has been a boon to shopping centers around the country. Many Chinese hung their lights and ate yuanxiao on the festival eve to celebrate the two holidays together.
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