Fengdu county wants to invest 700 million yuan to build a brand-new Ghost Themepark to replace the centuries-old "ghost district" that will soon be drowned by water from the Three Gorges Dam project.
The Beijing Paralympic Games has offered a chance for China to draw national resources toward one social group - the disabled; but more importantly, would it be sustainable?
Though a recent World Bank report on poverty reduction lauds China for historic achievements, it also widens the gap between international standards and China's own poverty line.
Under a Chinese State Council directive, provincial governments have gradually resolved local debts resulting from free rural education. Meanwhile, the government has discovered debt scams.
Steel industry and discovery of oil field have granted new lifeline for Tanghai, a county in northern China and a late comer in economic development despite its location on the coast.
A teacher in Sichuan was fired following strong public criticism of him being the first to flee from his classroom and students during the May 12 earthquake. Fan, however, challenges the notion that everyone should be heroic, and plans to take up a defama
Thursday appears to be a day of shocks, with the strongest aftershock since late May hitting Sihcuan-Shaanxi region in China, and earthquakes measuring above 6.0 rocking Japan and Russia.
An exercise by the Dongguan authorities to hand out cash subsidy for lower income groups in view of the rising costs has run into unforseen problem - with every Tom, Dick, and Harry claiming rights over the 1,000 yuan allowance.
Chinese police has launched a manhunt and mounted stringent border checks after two explosions rocked public buses in Kunming, Yunnan, the province that borders Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar.
Plentiful natural resources have boosted the economy of Yulin, a city tucked in the hills of Shaanxi province. Yet, beyond the proliferation of massage parlours frequented by coal mine bosses, the city largely remains underdeveloped with a wide wealth gap
A recent survey has revealed that Chinese farmers are shouldering greater burdens in official costs for the first time in five years. Officials fear that this will discourage agriculture at a time when food security is a top priority.
A former secretary to a vice-mayor executed for corruption has turned his doomed public service career into inspiration for fiction. Now, Wang Xiaofang's novels are thick with the nooks and crooks of government dealings.
Zheng Chu reports on a Chinese citizen's legal odyssey in finding the truth behind a group of controversial photos released by forestry officials featuring an "extinct" South China tiger.
Donations for Sichuan earthquake victims have rolled into tens of billions of yuan, sparking public concern over fund usage and intensifying calls for transparency.
Psychological trauma still haunts Chengdu residents as a result of the Wenchuan earthquake. Rumors have sparked widespread public panic, and many suffer anxiety that the ground beneath them is still shaking.
With a high possibility that Tangjiashan landslide-dammed lake will burst, securing hundreds of thousands of lives has become the foremost priority for Chinese officials working around the clock to avert a secondary disaster after the May 12 earthquake.
Public empathy has led to swelling interest in adopting quake orphans, yet questions over the one-child policy and pre and post adoptive assessment remain.
