By Pang Geping, Zheng Yi The construction of the Pinglu Canal, one of the major projects of China's new western land-sea corridor, kicked off on Aug. 28. The canal, located in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region and stretching 135 kilometers from Xijin Reservoir in Hengzhou to Luwu township in…
The elevation of the president of China's most prestigious university to the job of government minister was unexpected. It is rare to bring in an academic without a goverment background. But given the tarnished reputation of a ministry that is widely viewed as having failed, the move makes sense.Unusually, the announcement of Tsinghua University President Chen Jining’s
Qu Geping, 92, the first director of China's Environmental Protection Agency, has been looking back to the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, the Swedish capital.