The universal second-child policy implemented early last year was a major factor in raising the number of births in China to 17.86 million last year, an increase of 7.9 percent and the highest annual number since since 2000, according to the top healt… read more
China plans to launch the Chang’e-5 lunar probe at the end of November this year, from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China’s Hainan Province, aboard the heavy-lift carrier rocket Long March-5. The mission will be China’s first automated… read more
China will step up efforts to fight desertification to meet a global target of halting net land degradation by 2030, a senior official said Sunday. The country plans to rehabilitate more than 11,300 square kilometers of severely desertified farmland i… read more
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, will head a new central commission for integrated military and civilian development, according to a decision by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on… read more
Police in Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning Province have uncovered a gang selling guns online. Police have detained 27 suspects for allegedly manufacturing, selling and possessing guns without licenses. In addition, 105 guns, more than 1,200 bulle… read more