After purges that left Peking virtually without any dogs three years ago, the snub-nosed Pekingese and other breeds are coming back as the exclusive playthings of the capital's privileged present-day mandarins.
Economic growth last year more than doubled Chinese government targets, and urban inflation was the highest since the Communist Party took power in 1949, the State Statistical Bureau said.
antibiotics, the English-language China Daily reported Wednesday.
"The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China," a book by UCLA history professor Philip C.
China and Vietnam have conducted an exchange of prisoners on the tense border between the rival
and injuring 26, the official China Daily newspaper said Friday.
Widespread floods in northeast China have left more than 800,000 people homeless in the last two
Tears flowed occasionally during interviews earlier this week as three Chinese nurses talked about leaving Orange County for their homes, jobs and families in Peking and Shanghai.
Some of China's 800 million peasants have begun to voice fears that the government is attempting to force them back into cooperative or collective farms this year in order to increase the nation's grain harvest.
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China said today that it is ready to expand its fledgling commercial satellite launch service to
For three decades, China has repeatedly proclaimed solidarity with the Third World.
The breakthrough that came last year in sports exchanges between China and South Korea is spreading
The United States and China have ended their 14-month stalemate over a nuclear cooperation
Chinese President Li Xiannian said today that he would not exclude the use of force to reunify Taiwan with the mainland but stressed a peaceful alternative that would allow the capitalist-oriented island to coexist with communism.
The Baoshan Iron & Steel Works, which has been China's biggest and most embarrassing white elephant, is about to spring into life.
Trade between the United States and China hit a record $6.1 billion in 1984, a 50.6% increase over the previous year, officials announced today.
China plans to introduce competition to the state-run tourism monopoly as part of the Communist
Pepsi-Cola will become available to millions of Chinese for the first time when the bottling plant is opened in the Canton province later this year, Pepsi-Cola International reported.
China raised its 1984 estimate of new coal reserves to 10.2 billion tons.