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The ferry services between coastal areas of Fujian province on the mainland and the outlying islands of Kinmen and Matsu resumed over the weekend after a suspension of nearly three years....

As China's Spring Festival rush continues, the workers at China Railway Chengdu Bureau Group Co Ltd routinely climb mountains and cliffs, carefully observe every rock for potential hazards, and install reinforcements when needed....

New York City saw a decrease in shootings and homicides in 2022 over the previous year, but there was a 23 percent increase in major crimes and about a 30 percent increase in crimes in the subway system, according to data released by the city's police...

Representatives of Shanghai's expat community expressed relief and confidence in the prospect of 2023 in China after a face-to-face dialogue with the city's leading epidemiologists on Friday....

Terminal 3-E of the Beijing Capital International Airport reopened for international arrival on Sunday after passengers arriving in China from abroad no longer required to quarantine or undergo nucleic acid test....

A traffic accident in Jiangxi provincial capital Nanchang has left 17 people dead and another 22 injured, according to local traffic police....

By the end of the 2024-2025 ice and snow season, China's ice and snow leisure tourism sector is expected to receive over 520 million visitors, with its revenue exceeding 720 billion yuan (about 104.5 billion U.S. dollars), marking the sector a core de...

An ancient hominid site dating back some 13,200 years ago has been unveiled in East China's Shandong province, with over 1,000 relics, including pottery sculptures....

China has highlighted regular surveillance and precautions of the novel coronavirus infection, as well as a rollout of emergency measures to flatten infection peaks in its latest COVID-19 disease control protocol, a public health expert said on Saturday....

China is promoting grassroots teams consisting of village officials, doctors and volunteers, to ensure one-to-one service for vulnerable groups in villages to prevent and curb the severe cases of the COVID-19 in the country's broad rural areas....

Hospitalization cost for COVID-19 patients will continue to be fully reimbursed until the end of March, a circular said on Saturday, despite China's decision to downgrade the disease' management from Class A to Class B on Sunday....

Some 341,000 people involved in 311,000 cases were given criminal punishments for corruption, bribery and malpractice over the past decade, statistics provided by the Supreme People's Court, the country's top court, said on Friday....

Chinese courts have been required to focus more on educating talent for handling disputes involving foreign litigants and expand judiciary cooperation in more fields to fully improve the quality and efficiency of foreign-related justice....

China will take initiative to participate in formulating and amending more international rules involving intellectual property to better serve the country's opening-up, a senior IP regulator said....