A fireworks explosion killed five people and injured eight others in the city of Chifeng in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Tuesday, local authorities said.
More than 80 percent of Chinese people think that the level of Chinese proficiency has been deteriorating and nearly 61 percent believe that a crisis is emerging for Chinese as a language.
A village clinic in central Henan province is connected with a recent outbreak of hepatitis C infection, said a Health Ministry spokesman here Tuesday. The local health department has withdrawn the clinic's license.
Thick smog shrouded Beijing Tuesday morning, grounding more than 100 flights.
A new non-government organization has been set up in the central city of Yueyang to protect the Yangtze finless porpoise, an endangered river dolphin that is even rarer than giant pandas.
The work safety watch dog in Southwest China's Guizhou province said on Monday that it shut down 735 non-coal mines that did not meet safety standards in 2011, in an effort to boost safety supervision in the resource-rich region.
Weddings certainly aren't what they used to be, said Yan Yuejin. Back in 1980 when Yan got married, his wedding lasted four days. It was tiring but fun and took place in the yard of a home with relatives and neighbors helping out, the 54-year-old recalled.
The Ministry of Education is looking into a reported leaking of test answers during the national entrance examination for postgraduate students, which ended on Monday.
The footprints, unearthed in a geological park in Yanqing county, are the first dinosaur traces the city has found, according to Zhang Jianping, researcher at the China University of Geosciences.
Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC), the Chinese partner of Daimler AG and Hyundai Motor Co, Monday said that its profit in 2011 increased by 46.1 percent year-on-year, far beyond the average 8-percent growth for the whole industry in China.
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