China's Xiamen combats emerging pollutants
At 8 a.m., Huang Chunyi, a resident of Lianqian neighborhood in Siming district, Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian province, headed out for work, taking along three bags of household waste to a collection point in her residential complex.
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Long March-10's first stage retrieved from sea in China's first
The first stage of the Long March-10 carrier rocket has been successfully fished out and retrieved from the sea, marking China's completion of its first-ever rocket first-stage booster maritime salvage and recovery mission.
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Chinese leaders extend Spring Festival greetings to retired senior officials
President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders have visited or entrusted others to visit retired senior officials to extend greetings ahead of the Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. 17 this year.
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China's home price declines ease in January
BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- China's housing market showed signs of improvement in January as home price declines in 70 large and medium-sized cities generally narrowed from the previous month, official data showed on Friday.In the four first-tier cities -- Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen -- prices of newly built homes edged down 0.3 percent month on month in January, while prices of second-hand homes slipped 0.5 percent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).Meanwhile, across 31 second-tier cities, the average month-on-month price declines were 0.3 percent for new homes and 0.5 percent for resold homes, while prices in 35 third-tier cities fell 0.4 percent for new homes and 0.6 percent for resold homes.On a year-on-year basis, however, the downward pressure persisted as price declines widened in all city tiers, the NBS data showed.China has maintained policy support for the real estate sector and is seeking to build a new development model amid shifting supply-demand dynamics. Authorities have recently repeatedly stressed the need to promote higher-quality development in the property sector.China will adhere to a city-specific, targeted policy approach, focusing on controlling new supply, reducing inventory, and improving housing quality, said Ni Hong, minister of housing and urban-rural development.Efforts will also be made to support developers' reasonable financing needs and to better meet residents' essential housing needs and demand for better housing, he added.
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Highlights of Xi's Beijing visit ahead of Spring Festival
President Xi Jinping visited primary-level officials and residents in Beijing during a two-day inspection tour from Monday to Tuesday, extending Spring Festival greetings to Chinese people at home and abroad ahead of the festival. Here are the highlights during the visit.
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Guarding the border at 5,100 meters
At an altitude of 5,100 meters, Khunjerab Pass braces for the bitter cold of winter. "Vehicle number 47 today, documents verified, release!" Zhu Yan, a customs officer at the Khunjerab Pass affiliated with Urumqi Customs, braves the biting wind as he approaches the slow-moving truck.
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Journey of Yingshan medicinal herbs out of mountains
As Chinese New Year approaches, in Yingshan county, Central China's Hubei Province, known as the "land of medicinal herbs," Wang Zaiping, a villager from Tiantang village in Shitouzui Township, has been busy. On a sunny mountainside slope, she and her husband diligently turn over pine logs.
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Three images of post-90s satellite designer
Qu Youyang, a post-90s satellite designer in the CGSTL, and his colleagues huddled around computers: one displaying remote sensing images and analytical data transmitted back by a Changguang Jilin-1 satellite, another recording discussion notes, and a third for revising and debugging plans.
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Shanghai: one bed, room, home; Xiong'an: one land, map, city
On February 8, in a residential building in Jing'an in downtown Shanghai, delivery rider Shen Zhuangqi - a native of Heze, East China's Shandong Province who has been working in the city for three years - greeted the reporters with a simple sentence: "I've found that big-family feeling here."
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'Sister Wu' sells vegetables by 'slow train'
At daybreak in the Miaoling Mountains, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, vegetable vendor Sister Wu began her day amid a flurry of flapping wings and barking dogs. The reporter, helping chase down free-range chickens, could not help but ask.
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Chinese researchers develop stretchable electrodes for long-term stable brain-computer interfaces
A Chinese research team has developed a stretchable, flexible microelectrode capable of high-throughput neural signal recording while conforming to brain biomechanics.
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China regrets EU request for WTO panel, pledges to defend rights
China's Ministry of Commerce on Thursday expressed regret over the European Union's (EU's) decision to request the establishment of a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel in response to Chinese judicial rulings on standard essential patents (SEPs).
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Chinese authorities urge greater safety control on infant formula products
China's State Council Food Safety Office and State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) have instructed local authorities to tighten the quality and safety oversight of infant formula, following a recent precautionary recall of Nestle products.
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China reports 11 pct year-on-year rise in inclusive loans for small firms
China's outstanding inclusive loans for small and micro businesses in 2025 totaled 37 trillion yuan (about 5.3 trillion U.S. dollars) by the end of the fourth quarter, which was up 11 percent year on year, according to data released by the National Financial Regulatory Administration on
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