The first trade mission from Saudi Arabia to visit China met Premier Zhao Ziyang on Sunday, Chinese state television reported.
China will introduce an income tax next year in a bid to narrow the rapidly widening gap between
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China has suspended plans to phase out a special currency used by foreigners, the China Daily reported Saturday.
million years in central China, the official New China News Agency said Saturday.
southwestern Yunnan province, the official New China News Agency said Saturday.
The government says China's growth rate last year was 10.81 per thousand, close to the target for containing its population at 1.2 billion by the end of the century.
to broadcast a weekly program of British hit records to China, a station spokesman said here.
Chinese scientists have invented a potent mouthwash able to wipe out bad breath among the most avid garlic eaters in only 10 seconds, a Chinese newspaper said Tuesday.
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China and Indonesia have resumed direct trade after an 18-year break, an Indonesian trade delegation announced Tuesday.
A U.S. businessman accused of starting a fatal fire in a hotel in the Manchurian city of Harbin was found guilty of criminal negligence by a Chinese court and sentenced to 18 months in prison, a court official said.
At least 26 people died, 120 others were missing and thousands left homeless in flooding sparked by three days of torrential rains in China's southern Guangdong Province, a newspaper reported last week.
China plans a 15-year project to expand and modernize navigation on its greatest waterway, the
Two pandas from China visiting the San Francisco Zoo have had their stay extended until Jan. 24
China and Vietnam exchanged a total of 86 prisoners Wednesday at the Friendship Pass between the two feuding countries.
The Taiwan government Thursday rejected China's suggestion that the two foes relax their entry and exit procedures to allow more visits by each other's residents.
China said Thursday that three performers for cultural groups have been sentenced to prison as spies for Taiwan.
In the past few weeks, Chinese propaganda organs have pressed harder and harder the theme that university students should begin to work in some of China's poorer areas in order to acquire practical experience in life.
today and accused of deviating from Communist Party principles, the official New China News Agency said.