The amount of smuggled ivory tracked down in China fell 80 percent in 2016 from previous peak years, the State Forestry Administration (SFA) said Sunday. Liu Dongsheng, deputy head of the SFA, made the remarks at the opening ceremony of a wildlife pro… read more
Chinese police seized more than 800 suspects in 380 major cases worth 900 billion yuan (US$131 billion) related to underground banks in 2016, said the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on Sunday. A campaign against underground banks to maintain financ… read more
China’s environmental inspectors named and shamed more cities on Sunday for poor air quality control as the fight against smog continues. Inspections of 18 cities in north China’s Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region and nearby areas used unannounced ch… read more
Jinggangshan, the heartland of the early revolutionary activities of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in east China’s Jiangxi Province, announced Sunday that it has been officially taken off the list of impoverished areas. Jinggangshan was home to t… read more
At least 10 people were killed in a hotel fire Saturday morning in Nanchang, capital of east China’s Jiangxi Province, firefighters said. The fire, which broke out around 8 a.m. in the HNA Platinum Mix Hotel in Honggutan New District, was put out aro… read more