As one of the areas piloting China's "three networks integration" or 三網融合 sānwǎng rónghé, cable TV customers in Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, cities located in Hunan Province, will soon have access to 10M-speed internet service. Those who sign up to
Hangzhou HSDP Group Co. Ltd is suing Zhang Jianzhong, a local CPC representative. According to Hangzhou HSDP, in order to detract attention from the lawsuit, Zhang Jianzhong had 64 residents apply to have him removed from office. Hangzhou HSDP also accuse
Huazhong University of Science and Technology recently expelled 307 postgraduate students who have been unable to finish their degree on time. Among the students expelled are government officials and high-level executives of state-owned enterprises. The l
According to media reports, beginning September 20, 44 villages in Changping were to start implementing a nighttime closure in order to reduce crime. However a reporter from the Beijing Morning Post found that the policy has yet to be implemented.
Deng Yaping, former Olympic Ping-Pong champion, has been designated the president of "People's Search", People's Daily's search engine, according to Zhan Guoshu, former general editor of the overseas edition of People's Daily.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has released a notice regulating local government measures to save energy and reduce carbon emissions. The notice requires local governments to stop restricting the electricity consumption volume of re
The central bank has released the results of their "third quarter residents' survey." The survey indicates that 36.6% of the respondents expect housing prices to rise, up 7.2 percentage points from last quarter. 72.2% of those surveyed still see current h
China's five largest State-Owned Banks (ICBC, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Construction Bank of China, and China Bank of Communications) have all reported their provisions for non-performing loans are higher than 2.5%, according to an anonym
Yesterday, an anonymous official from the Ministry of Human Resource and Social Security said that around 100 million urban and rural residents, accounting for around 10% of the total number of residents insured, have been insured twice because health inf
The Shanghai Composite Index dropped by 1.89% to 2,602.47 yesterday. The share price of the Agricultural Bank of China decreased to 2.63 yuan, dropping 1.87% from the day before. The price of its IPO closed at 2.68 yuan per share.
Zhang Lei, deputy director of a local police station in Guizhou province, will stand trial today. On January 12, 2010, he shot two people to death when attempting to solve a dispute among the victims and three other villagers. Zhang has already confessed
Shen Kui, a professor at Peking University Law School, told Beijing news that law-makers are planning to regulate government expropriation of collectively-owned land. The proposed law will address problems such as unjust compensation, the use of violence
Relatives of the victims of the Yichun air crash have decided to file a lawsuit against General Electric because, although the E190 airliner was made in Brazil, its main engine CF34-10E was produced by General Electric. Currently, the relatives have been
The National Copyright Administration has required 15 popular video websites, including UUSee, Sina, Youku and Sohu, to inspect the video content they provide. The video content on those 15 websites account for 80 percent of the total videos broadcasted b
China UnionPay has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Railways to make it possible for people to buy train tickets via mobile phone, telephone, Internet and ticket issuing machines. Liu Hongrun, deputy director of the finance de
Criminals who have severely violated food safety laws should be sentenced to the death penalty, according to a notice released by the Supreme People’s Court, Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Justice yeste
An anonymous official with the Ministry of Human Resource and Social Securities told a reporter with People’s Daily Online that the central government was currently not considering postponing the retirement age.
The central bank will not comment on two market rumors which say that commercial banks will be allowed to lift the deposit rate by 10% themselves and that banks will subsidize saving deposits to maintain their value, according to an anonymous source with
China's total electricity consumption has reached 397.5 billion kilowatt-hours in August, up 14.69% from the level of the same period of last year and up 2% from that of July. The electricity consumption of the secondary industry fell by 2.1% in August fr
A reporter with the Beijing News has learned from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) that investigators will be sent to determine whether local governments have provided supporting capital for projects covered by the four trillion yuan
