China may surpass the US to become the world's largest seed market next year as commercialization in the seed industry accelerates, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said ahead of the start of the World Seed Congress in Beijing on Monday. Chines...
For people in the cities, the simple beauty offered by a floating butterfly vanished long ago. In the valleys of Yunnan province in the southwest of China, explosions of brightly colored butterflies were a common spectacle. But even there, butterflie...
China may surpass the US as the worlds largest seed market next year as commercialization in the seed industry accelerates. These comments come from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences just before the World Seed Congress kicks off in Beijing on Mo...
Chinas State Internet Information Office has just published an Americas Global Surveillance Record, a few days after the governments announcement that it would increase security checks for computer hardware and services. The Record is drafted by the...
A Vietnamese vessel has capsized after harassing and intentionally ramming a Chinese fishing boat in the South China Sea. The crew aboard the boat were rescued. The clash happened near Chinas Xisha Islands. Vietnam has sent a number of ships to obstr...
The votes have been cast, the jury has had its say and the winners have been announced - the 2014 Cannes Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday on the glamorous French Riviera. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan finally walked away with the Palme d'Or fo...
Joining us live now is our reporter Wu Lei, who is in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Q1. Whats the security like in Urumqi? What has the government done to enhance the safety of local residents since the attack? Q2. How have...
The Chinese and Russian navies have concluded their live-fire drills in the East China Sea. The two navies taking part in the Joint Sea-2014 drill returned to Wusong Military Port on Sunday morning. On Saturday, the Chinese and Russian warships condu...
China has scrambled fighter jets, after two Japanese jets entered Chinas airspace in the East China Sea, where it was holding joint maritime drills with Russia. The Defense Ministry said on its website that the Japanese aircraft entered the zone on S...
Ten people have been killed, and 32 injured after two trucks collided with each other in north Xinjiangs Wujiaqu City. Local police said a light truck, loaded with 41 migrant workers, was hit by an empty heavy truck, while the latter tried to pass it...
Over the past few years, efforts in Xinjiang have concentrated on improving peoples livelihoods and quality of life. In the last four years, more than 70 percent of public fiscal expenditures in the region have been dedicated to this goal. Significan...
China has promised lenient punishments for terrorists in the far western Xinjiang region who willingly surrender to authorities. The move comes in the wake of Thursdays attack in Urumqi, one of the deadliest to hit the region in years. In the wake of...
Qingyuan has been one of the worst hit cities in Guangdong province by torrential rains. As the flood wore on, landslides poured into rural areas and traffic came to a standstill, schools have been forced shut. A major downpour like this is only expe...
In East China's Jiangsu province, a local court has rejected a request by four parents to inherit frozen embryos that were left behind by a couple who died in a car crash. Now for more on the issue, we are joined in the studio by Professor Hao Ran, d...
Ukraine's Defence Ministry says its troops detained two members of an armed insurgent group on Wednesday. The Ministry claims they were engaged in intelligence gathering near Ukraine army checkpoints in the Donetsk region. Pictures supplied by the De...
