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Migrant Workers Spending Holiday in Cities
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| Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers stayed in cities during the Spring Festival holiday week. In large cities like Shanghai and others in Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces, they received from local trade unions subsidies and festival gifts before the Chinese lunar New Year. |
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Colliery Blast Kills 23 in N. China
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| Twenty-three miners were confirmed dead and 53 others injured in a colliery gas blast Wednesday in north China's Shanxi Province, the local mine safety authorities said today. |
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China Pledges 80 Mln Yuan in Aid to Afghanistan in 2006
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| Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said in London on Tuesday that China will provide 80 million yuan (nearly US$10 million ) in aid to Afghanistan in 2006. |
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Tourist Reception Center to Be Built at Three Gorges
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| Three Gorges Project site will build a reception center and improve facilities in 2006 to cope with the rapid increase of incoming tourists. |
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Beijing to Start Recruiting Olympic Volunteers
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| Beijing Olympic organizers will start in August to recruit volunteers for the 2008 Games. Altogether 100,000 volunteers will be needed before and during the 2008 Beijing Games, with 70,000 serving the 2008 Summer Olympics and 30,000 for the Paralympics. |
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World Bank to Help China Revitalize Northeast
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| The World Bank would like to work with the Chinese government in 2006 in an effort to revitalize the old industrial bases in northeast China, said David Dollar, the World Bank Country Director for China, at a conference held in Harbin, northeastern Heilongjiang Province. |
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Few Accidents Reported upon Firecracker Ban Removal
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| Major areas of firecracker production and cities lifting the ban on firecrackers reported good safety situation during the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations which began on Saturday, the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) said Sunday. |
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Names of Panda Couple for Taiwan Compatriots Unveiled
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| Pet names of the giant panda couple, to be presented to the Taiwan compatriots as a goodwill gift from the mainland, were unveiled in Beijing midnight Saturday. |
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Top Leaders Visit Farmers on New Year's Eve
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| President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao both came to farmers' families to celebrate the lunar New Year. Experts said their New Year trips to rural areas showed the top leadership's resolution to build a new socialist countryside aimed at common prosperity. |
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The Things People Do at Spring Festival
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| The Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as Spring Festival, is the most important festival for the Chinese. It's a time when families get together to eat, drink and be merry, among other things like spending lots of money, according to survey results from the Social Survey Institution of China released on Monday. |
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