China announced the start of military conscription, ending the tradition of the People's Liberation Army as an all-volunteer force.
graduate student, accusing the China scholar of lying to him.
award for a spring outfit combining Western tailoring and Chinese flair, the New China News Agency reported earlier this week.
Heavily favored China scored an easy victory over Tunisia, while Japan, Cuba and the Soviet Union
China announced today that it will open 137 more cities and regions to foreign travelers as of Feb
Economic growth last year more than doubled Chinese government targets, and urban inflation was the highest since the Communist Party took power in 1949, the State Statistical Bureau said.
Some of China's 800 million peasants have begun to voice fears that the government is attempting to force them back into cooperative or collective farms this year in order to increase the nation's grain harvest.
The $10-million investment agreement includes plans to build a plant in Shanghai to manufacture the soft-drink's concentrate for the Chinese market.
"The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China," a book by UCLA history professor Philip C.
Harold R.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade said the Chinese government will submit a formal letter of application to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the near future, but he gave no specific date.
China and Vietnam have conducted an exchange of prisoners on the tense border between the rival
Twenty people died and about 1,000 became sick in southern China after drinking liquor contaminated
China's former foreign minister, Huang Hua, recently delivered a brief lecture on standard socialist economics to the National People's Congress, or Parliament.
For three decades, China has repeatedly proclaimed solidarity with the Third World.
Widespread floods in northeast China have left more than 800,000 people homeless in the last two
and injuring 26, the official China Daily newspaper said Friday.
debuts on Chinese television in a weekly half-hour cartoon series on the China Central Television Network.
antibiotics, the English-language China Daily reported Wednesday.
Tears flowed occasionally during interviews earlier this week as three Chinese nurses talked about leaving Orange County for their homes, jobs and families in Peking and Shanghai.