It's one small step for a team of researchers and one quantum leap for China. On August 16, China successfully launched the world's first quantum communications satellite from a launch center in Gansu province. It's the first step in China's ambitiou...
What Chinese banks don't know won't hurt them. This seems to be a guiding principle for some provincial government authorities who are compiling lists of lackluster companies and keeping them secret from regulators and banks who might otherwise refus...
New regulations meant to promote social stability in Shaanxi province could mean trouble for Chinese lawyers. The Shaanxi Bar Association recently created a working group to deal with persons of interest, a euphemism for the renegade human rights law...
After reports of possible food contamination caused a scare in Henan province last month, local officials are saying there's nothing to fear. Cui Wenjun, head of a district-level environmental protection bureau in the city of Xinxiang, confirmed that...
One of China's most notorious murderers was caught August 26 in Gansu province after evading capture for nearly 30 years. Gao Chengyong, a 52-year-old father of two, confessed to raping, mutilating and killing 11 women and girls in Gansu and Inner Mo...
Just last week, Xu Yuyu was poised to start a new chapter of her life as a college freshman. But in a matter of days, the 19-year-old's story came to a tragic end, as she died of a heart attack after losing her tuition money in a phone scam. Xu's dea...
A glacier slide that tore a path of destruction through western Tibet last month 上个月冰川滑动在西藏西部形成了破坏通道， could have been set in motion by climate change and similar disasters could be ahead. 这可能是气候变化...
The maker of a popular selfie makeover mobile app that lets users turn themselves into supermodels could soon give the Hong Kong stock exchange a facelift. Meitu Inc., a smartphone and app developer based in the eastern city of Xiamen, filed an appli...
Chinese shoppers are getting a taste of home even as they jet to Japan to buy foreign goods. Japan's Kyodo News service reports that several major Japanese retailers are now allowing customers to use Chinese mobile payment services in their stores. T...
For Chinese customers, sipping a latte from a Starbucks cup is more than a way to stay caffeinated its a trendy cultural status symbol. But it could also come with safety risks. Starbucks Corp. announced this week that it will recall more than 54,000...
710 million Chinese citizens, or 51.7 percent of Chinas population, use the internet as of June 2016. That percentage might seem low. But a new report from the China Internet Network Information Center, or CNNIC, tells a different story. Twenty-first...
After years of making inroads into foreign markets, Chinese railway companies are starting to expand their strategies. A series of setbacks have plagued Chinese companies attempting to export railway technology and build railroads overseas in the pas...
Housing prices surged in China's largest cities, including Beijing, 包括北京在内的大城市房价上涨， as eager buyers snapped up posh homes to improve their standard of living. 富人竞相购买奢华房产改善生活。 From the capita...
China is plunging full speed ahead on railway construction, as the countrys top economic planner announced this Wednesday that China will expand its high-speed railway network by 58 percent in the next five years. By 2030, 16 high-speed railway corri...
It's a public health menace that has become a fact of life for city-dwelling Chinese but should smog be considered a natural disaster? The Beijing government seems to think so, but environmental science experts disagree. 作为城市居民，它已成为...
