New life is slowly beginning to take root as grass is found growing in a pit where a team of rescuers dug for buried bodies in the mudslide-flattened Zhouqu County of northwest China’s Gansu Province.
Shang Tiansheng, a 69 year-old man born in the county was sitting on a hillock in a shadow cast by a leaning apple tree beside the pit, staring at gravel and flowing water about five meters away.
“I come here every day since the disaster. My home is buried under the gravel and the flowing wat …
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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Thursday called for more efforts to boost Sino-Japanese exchanges and cooperation among local governments and sister cities.
Xi made the remarks when meeting with visiting Japan’s Nagasaki Prefecture Governor Nakamura Houdou and Chairman of the Prefectural Assembly Sueyoshi Mitsunori.
Praising the fruitful exchanges between Nagasaki and Chinese provinces, Xi said local government cooperation was an important part of Sino-Japanese relations.
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China began Thursday delivering the second batch of relief goods worth 50 million yuan (7.4 million U.S. dollars) to flood-ravaged Pakistan, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC).
The relief goods are mainly daily necessities, including 1,200 tents, 30 tonnes of compacted rations, 23,800 blankets, 1,000 generators as well as medicine, bottled water and water purification equipment, said the MOC in an online statement.
China announced on Aug. 1 that it would send humanitarian aid wort …
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China and Tanzania enjoys deep and traditional friendship with richer and richer cultural exchanges between the two countries, a senior Chinese diplomat said in Dar Es Salaam,on Thursday.
Liu Xinsheng, Chinese ambassador to Tanzania, made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the exhibition of “Henan in the Eyes of World Photographers”, stressing the role of cultural exchange in enhancing the bilateral relations.
He referred to the large-scale celebrations of China’s traditional Spring Fe …
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The plane that crashed in northeast China Tuesday was a military aircraft from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), sources with China’s relevant government department said Thursday.
Investigations found that the crash was caused by mechanical failure, the sources said.
The plane, which crashed in Fushun County of Liaoning Province, lost its course because of mechanical failure and strayed into the Chinese territory.
China and the DPRK have reached consensus on coping with …
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A strong gale ripped off more than 100 roofs and toppled trees and wire poles Thursday afternoon in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, said local authorities.
No casualties have been reported.
The gale, which local people said was like a tornado, pounded Qing’an County of Suihua City at around 4 p.m., Liu Fengqi, secretary of the Qing’an County Committee of the Communist Party of China, told Xinhua.
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Fiji’s Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama Thursday told villagers in Fiji’s second largest island- Vanua Levu about the need to look at countries like China and India as trading partners.
Bainimarama told the people of Bua that the government will assist low income earners as they are hoping a Chinese investment in Fiji will see a set up of a new cement factory.
Bainimarama reiterated that in a way to unite the nation and eradicate racial discrimination, the word “Fijian” is to be …
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A delegation of Chinese academicians briefed Chilean legislators on current situation in China’s Autonomous Region of Tibet in a seminar at Chile’s congress on Wednesday, and won praise from the audience.
“It was a very enlightening event where we had the chance to learn all the developments experienced by this region of China,” said Hernan Larrain, chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee.
“For us it was particularly useful to increase our knowledge about the region and its cu …
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At least two carriages of a passenger train fell into a river after floods destroyed a bridge in Guanghan, southwest China’s Sichuan Province Thursday afternoon, local authorities said.
A fire-fighter involved in the rescue operation told Xinhua that the two carriages had been swept 200 meters away in the river, but it was not immediately known how many passengers were inside the carriages.
They are trying to get close to the carriages in the river and save the passengers trapped, he said. …
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Hundreds of workers at four Beijing food plants owned by a Republic of Korea company have gone strike for higher pay, the latest in a string of walkouts by Chinese factory workers.
More than 200 workers at the plants run by the Lotte (China) Food Co. Ltd., a solely-funded subsidiary of the ROK’s Lotte Group, stopped work Monday.
Production was yet to resume at the plants in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area in the southeast suburbs of the city, a spokesman with the area’s …
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