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Despite Efforts, Environment Still Fragile
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| China continues to have serious environmental problems despite increased efforts to provide protection. Air and water pollution, reduction of wildlife habitat and the resulting loss of biodiversity, and erosion are just a few of the issues with which the government is attempting to cope. |
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Japan Told Not to Harm Chinese Citizens on Island
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| Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan Wednesday told Japan to treat seven Chinese activists who landed on the Diaoyu Islands carefully and not take any action that would jeopardize their safety. |
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Premier Outlines Plan to Revitalize Rustbelt
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| Premier Wen Jiabao has unveiled this year's four major tasks for reinvigorating the nation's industrial rustbelts. He said those areas must speed up institutional innovation and reform, the main road to their revitalization. |
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Da Yu Harnessing the Floods: Fact or Fiction?
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| Stories of the legendary hero Da Yu tell how he led the people in controlling the great floods that plagued central China. Generally he is thought to be mythical, but a photographer in Henan Province has stumbled across a large number of mysterious symbols carved into rocks that might prove Da Yu actually lived. |
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NASA: Mars' Surface Once Had Pool of Water
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| Mars rover Opportunity found "strong evidence" that a salty sea once existed on the Red Planet, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced Tuesday. |
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World Bank, China Announce Global Learning Conference
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| The Global Learning Process and Shanghai Conference on Scaling Up Poverty Reduction, to be held in Shanghai in May, will help to shed light on how successful policies, programs and projects may be scaled up to reduce poverty significantly at the national, regional, and global levels. The World Bank and the government of China are jointly sponsoring the event. |
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Campaign Punishes Oceanic Abuses
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| The first-ever, large-scale campaign against misuse of the sea, implemented last year by state marine surveillance authorities, officially wrapped up Monday. The campaign implies that China will carefully guard against wrongful exploitation of the ocean and punish those who defy regulations and the law. |
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Lunar Probe Satellite to Ride on Long March IIIA
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| China will use a Long March IIIA carrier rocket to launch its lunar probe satellite, said sources with the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. The satellite is the first phase of China's "Chang'e" lunar probe project. |
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Fishing Ban Starts on Poyang Lake
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| East China's Jiangxi Province started a three-month fishing ban Saturday on Poyang Lake, the country's largest freshwater lake. It is the third spring fishing ban imposed on the entire Poyang Lake since the spring of 2002. |
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"Referendum" Proved Against Will of Taiwan People
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| The Taiwan Work Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council issued a statement Saturday saying that the so-called "peace referendum" held by the Taiwan authorities goes against the will of the people and is doomed to failure. |
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