Military Set for China's National Day Parade

All the troops and equipment for China's massive National Day celebrations on Oct. 1 in Beijing were ready for the final showcase after four months of preparations and rehearsals, a spokesman at the joint headquarters for the military parade said Wednesday.

 
Residents in Beijing accept A/H1N1 flu vaccine shots

About 39,000 residents in Beijing had been inoculated with A/H1N1 flu vaccine by Tuesday afternoon, with 14 cases of adverse reaction, an epidemic control expert said on Wednesday.

 
China's Lucky "999" Day
wed    Tens of thousands of Chinese couples rushed to tie the knot across the nation Wednesday, or 09/09/09, hoping that the "triple 9 day" will bring them good luck and eternal love.
 
Taming the desert
desertThe dramatic beauty of deserts has inspired generations of poets, painters, and adventurers. But experts say the risk of further desertification now poses one of the greatest environmental and ecological threats to sustainable developm…
 
How to Make Paper Cuttings
paperPaper cutting is the art of creating patterns, designs or pictures by using scissors to cut paper in various ways. It originated in China after the invention of paper in around 100 BC.
 
China Now a Lower-middle-income Country

China's economic aggregate ranked third in the world as of 2008, pulling it into the list of lower-middle-income countries from low-income ones, according to a Sept 7 report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

 
Sichuan-Tibet Railway

Construction of the Sichuan-Tibet railway will begin this month, scol.com.cn, a Sichuan-based news portal reported Tuesday, with details on the railway's scale, direction and number of stops recently released by the China Railway No 2 Bureau in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province.

 
2008 China's foreign exchange reserves rank first in world

 

China's foreign exchange reserves rose from 1,577 billion U.S. dollars in 1978 to 1, 950 billion dollars in 2008 to rank first in the world, said Yu Wenzhe, Chinese Ambassador in Ghana, on Tuesday.

 
China's hybrid rice training base for foreign agrotechnicians

A training base aiming to help foreign agrotechnicians and governmental officials acquire China's world-leading hybrid-rice cultivating technique was officially launched on Sunday.

The Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture, a state-owned company named after "the Father of China's Hybrid Rice", has aimed to train 5,000 foreigners, establish 10 breeding centers and expand overseas cultivation bases to 10,000 hectares in 10 years so that countries receiving China's technical assistance in hybrid rice could breed new crop varieties and reap harvest on their home turf.

 
Chinese people hairstyles change over the Last 60 Years
hairstyleAs people's living conditions improved following the onset of China's reform and opening-up policy 30 years ago, they started adopting new hairstyles.
 
Is It Wrong to Pretend You're Not Married?
marriageA cartoon of the "fake single," who is married in law but hides the fact in public. A recent online debate about the ethics of concealing one's marriage and pretending to be single has caused a stir amid the internet community.
 
Not easy to read China
bookPromoting Chinese literature to the rest of the world was a focus of the Beijing Book Fair that ended on Sunday. One particular bestseller in China, Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem (Lang Tuteng), offered insight into how a popular Chinese nove…
 
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