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Steel Giant Makes Way for 2010 World Expo
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| The Pudong Iron & Steel Factory, run by China's biggest steel giant, the Baosteel Group, is moving to a new site to make way for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. |
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Water More Polluted Despite Progress
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| A senior legislator told the National People's Congress Standing Committee yesterday that river pollution has continued to worsen despite billions of dollars' investment in recent years, and over 300 million people still have no access to safe drinking water. |
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11th Panchen Lama Leads Religious Rituals in Sichuan
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| The 11th Panchen Lama, the religious leader of Tibetan Buddhists in China, led rituals and ceremonies in Tibetan habitats in southwestern China's Sichuan Province from June 12 to 28. |
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State Share Reform Not 'Selling out All Shares'
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| China's top securities regulator said in a press conference held at the State Council Information Office on Monday that the reform on non-tradable shares introduced recently aims at eliminating trading rights differences between non-tradable and tradable shares, not at floating all non-tradable shares on the stock market. |
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Compensation for Three Gorges Resettled Residents
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| Vice Mayor Huang Qifan of Chongqing Municipality said yesterday that the Three Gorges hydroelectric project will allocate part of the project's revenue from electricity sales to fund the training programs and industrial development preferential measures for resettled residents. |
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China Marks Int'l Anti-Drug Day
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| More than 10,000 people participated in a march from the Summer Palace to the China Millennium Altar in Beijing on Sunday to promote public awareness against drugs. The 12-kilometer two-hour long march was one of the nationwide activities to commemorate the UN-sponsored International Anti-Drug Day on Sunday.
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Beijing Unveils New Olympic Slogan
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| With the dream of uniting the world around the Olympic Rings in 2008, the Beijing Games has a new slogan -- One World, One Dream. The slogan, presented at a grand ceremony held in Beijing on Sunday, replaces "New Beijing, Great Olympics", which was used during the city's bid for the 2008 Games. |
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China Pursues Gradual Reform of RMB Rate
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| Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday China must uphold the principles of independent initiative, controllability and gradual progress in pursuing RMB exchange rate reform, when addressing the opening ceremony of the Sixth ASEM Finance Ministers' Meeting, held in Tianjin, a port city in north China. |
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China Opposes EU Restrictions on Shoes Imports
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| China strongly opposes to the launch of anti-dumping investigation by the European Union to imported Chinese shoes, which lacks practical and legal basis, Chong Quan, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said in Beijing Friday. |
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City Doctors Heading to Rural Clinics
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| The Ministry of Health plans to send tens of thousands of sophisticated medical practitioners from premium hospitals nationwide to local clinics as part of a one-year program designed for personnel training and service improvement.
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