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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made his second trip to the quake-battered zone on Thursday afternoon to supervise over disaster relief work. Wen flew to Mianyang, in southwest Sichuan Province, one of the worst hit cities by the magnitude 8 earthquake on May 12. The focus of relief ...
Millions of people in China and overseas observed three minutes silence at 2:28 pm Monday to mourn thousands of people killed in an earthquake which hit the nation's southwest a week ago. Across the country, air raid sirens, cars, trains and ship horns wailed in grief as the ...
China on Monday began a three-day national mourning for the tens of thousands of people killed in a powerful earthquake which struck the country's southwest on May 12. At 4:58 a.m., the national flag at the Tian'anmen Square in downtown Beijing flew at half-mast after a complete ...
The government's quick response to the catastrophe reflects the leadership is able to deliver efficient disaster relief. When a 7.8-magnitude deadly earthquake struck Southwest China Monday afternoon, the government quickly signaled a message of concern and action, as President ...
BEIJING -- Chinese President Hu Jintao's just-concluded "warm spring" visit to Japan has opened up new prospects for the development of strategic and mutually beneficial relations between the two countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Saturday. During his state ...
According to the book Art of War by Sun Tzu, "speed is the soul of warfare". And it seems the People's Liberation Army is taking note, as it handles rescue and relief operations in Sichuan. The PLA's General Staff Headquarters (GSH) on Wednesday dispatched 30,000 troops to quake...
Rescuers were Tuesday night racing against time to find survivors a day after the strongest quake to hit China in 32 years jolted Sichuan province, demolishing buildings and burying tens of thousands beneath the rubble. Hundreds of People s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers entered ...
The country is gearing up for a nationwide war against a mass outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) with the number of cases this year continuing to surge. The figure yesterday was 15,799, compared with 11,905 on Monday. The government is doing its best to contain the ...
The country has enough grain reserves to keep food prices stable, the top economic planner said on Tuesday. "Our grain supply and demand is basically stable, our reserves are full, and we can ensure supply and stable grain prices," the National Development and Reform Commission ...
TOKYO - It's a small, exclusive restaurant in an idyllic park - and rich in the symbolism of Sino-Japanese ties. It was also an appropriate setting for Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and President Hu Jintao to get to know each other better in an informal atmosphere. Before ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao urged college students to turn their patriotic passion into concrete actions of studying hard and contributing to the upcoming Olympic Games during a visit to Peking University on Saturday. Hu called upon the 110-year-old elite institution of higher ...
Fuyang has shocked the country again. Nineteen children have died there since last month before the city recently announced an outbreak of a lethal intestinal virus. About four years ago, the city in Anhui province startled the nation with a scandal relating to fake and inferior...
BEIJING -- The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) launched a three-year nationwide AIDS prevention and care program here on Friday, aiming to reduce vulnerability to HIV and its impact in the country. The initiative comes in response to an escalating nationwide HIV epidemic, said ...
UNITED NATIONS - China donated 500,000 US dollars on Friday to a trust fund to support the diplomatic efforts by the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. Liu Zhenmin, China's deputy permanent representative to the United ...
BEIJING -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang on Thursday reiterated that China bitterly opposes any country's interference in the Tibet issue. The matter is an internal affair. Qin made the remarks at a regular press conference here when asked by a journalist to respond to a ...
SHANGHAI: The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has approved a 39.45-billion-yuan ($5.52 billion) plan to build a high-speed passenger rail between Shanghai and Nanjing, the Xinhua News Agency reported Monday. The new line will be completed in four years and ...
While the country celebrated the "landmark success" of its grain output of 500 million tons last year, the severe snow in the past weeks has cast a shadow on the harvest this year. Will farmers' income in South China substantially shrink after last year's rapid rise? Will the ...
The central bank is under pressure to raise interest rates to combat price increases, but the international economic situation could influence its decision, an adviser to the bank said Thursday. "Interest rates in China are relatively low but prices are relatively high," Fan Gang...
BEIJING -- Surging consumer prices in China didn't show a slowdown sign, with the consumer price index (CPI) hitting a new high of 7.1 percent in January, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday. The January's figure was the highest level since 1997. CPI, ...
Fourteen people have gone missing in the wake of landslides triggered by heavy rain in the quake-hit Beichuan County of Sichuan Province in southwest China, a local official said on Wednesday. Some villagers in Leigu town have also been injured, said Zuo Daifu, a county official ...
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