Xu Gang, vice governor of Fujian Province, has been removed from his post for suspected serious disciplinary and legal violations, the Organizational Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee said Wednesday.
China plans to set up a scholarship designed exclusively for students coming to study in the country from nations involved in Beijing's initiatives to build a Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
Slower economic growth in emerging economies like China, Brazil and Russia will keep global crude prices and demand depressed this year, a leading think tank said on Tuesday.
China will help the African Union build disease control and prevention centers to increase its ability to fight infectious illnesses, a Chinese health official said.
China's tourism industry will grow 7.5 percent this year, faster than the national economy, according to a report released by one of the industry's leading representative organizations.
A commonwealth organization has demanded an industrial polluter in Shandong province receive hefty penalties when filing the country's first environmental lawsuit under a new law that came into effect on Jan.1.
French gendarmes late Tuesday found one of the two black boxes of a German passenger plane that crashed in southern France with 150 people on board, while a joint international probe into the cause of the accident is under way.
Six people have been confirmed dead, and two others were injured after an early morning fire occurred in a bungalow in Karamay City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Wednesday.
Chinese aviation stocks opened lower on Wednesday following Tuesday's fatal crash by Germanwings flight 4U 9525.
There are no Chinese passengers onboard the crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525, "as far as we know today", said Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann on Tuesday.
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