Running deep beneath mountains, rivers, and sometimes bustling cities are the world's longest tunnels. Quiet marvels of modern engineering, hidden from sight, they are vital to everyday life, carrying drinking water to millions, whisking metro trains between megacities, draining floodwaters, and connect regions once separated by formidable terrain.
Although China still faces the threat of new outbreaks due to local community transmissions or from imported cases, the country's capability to contain the COVID-19 has been honed, thanks to its experience in battling the virus for months.
Developments in the disgraced party official Bo Xilai case have engulfed China's top leadership. Was Bo's ouster part of a well-planned conspiracy? Security expert B Raman takes a look at the intriguing incident.
COVID infections in China began to surge towards December end and hospitals began to fill up. Many patients did not find beds and were seen sleeping on floors. Even, funeral homes and crematoriums were completely filled, and bodies were seen in the queue for days.
The boat named 'Baohua' has 698 passengers and 47 crew members, Xinhua news agency said.
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We bring you some of the best pictures from around the globe in the last 24 hours.
China on Monday successfully tested its new high-speed train connecting top cities in the high-altitude northeast region spanning about 921 kilometres.
China's first aircraft carrier has commenced its second sea trials in the Pacific Ocean to test its deck for fighter landings as well to check its weapons systems, ahead of its likely deployment next year.
Expected to be renamed "Shi Lang," after the Qing Dynasty admiral who conquered what is now known as Taiwan in 1681, the carrier has been undergoing modernisation work at the port of Dalian since 2002.
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No new domestically transmitted cases of the novel coronavirus disease were reported on the Chinese mainland on Thursday, the National Health Commission said.
China has made the world's first electric passenger aircraft that could be used in pilot training, tourism, meteorology and rescue operations.
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The development of the Dalian Tiandi Software Hub will involve a total investment of 15 billion yuan from Hong Kong-based Shui On Group and Dalian-based Yida Group.
The children born in China in the late 1970s and early 1980s from the one-child generation have reached marriageable age now.
The scientists found one of the two new pterosaurs, the Feilongus Youngi or Young's flying dragon was closely related to a family of pterosaurs found in southern France and Germany.
In a major boost to China's IT sector, Intel Corporation on Monday announced plans to invest a whopping $2.5 billion to build a 300-mm wafer fabrication facility in the coastal northeast Chinese city of Dalian
the coal mine, in a disused tunnel, started to spontaneously combust when 13 miners were reinforcing it. The leaked gas lit and caused an explosion.\n
The LNM group, owned by Lakshmi Mittal, will build its first steel production plant in China with an estimated investment of $100 million and plans to set up marketing, purchasing and manufacturing centres to tap the booming market.
The gas blast occurred at 1450 hours on Monday at the No 3316 working face of Sunjiawan colliery about 242 metres underground, vice-general manager of the Fuxin coal industry group, Zhang Yunfu said.
Toxic waste from a copper plant in Liaoning province is suspected to have leaked into a well used by the locals.
Fungi that emit smoke when exposed to loud noise has Chinese botanists puzzled.
Mo Jifeng had become bankrupt and hoped to recover by robbing Ling Ling.
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The National Health Commission (NHC) said that 32 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in the country on Thursday of which 28 were domestically-transmitted and four were imported. Of the domestically-transmitted cases, 25 were reported in Beijing, two in Hebei province and one in Liaoning province, it said in its daily report.
China has reported 66 new coronavirus cases, the largest since the disease was controlled in its first epicentre Wuhan in April, prompting the authorities to go into a 'wartime' mode to stem the spread of COVID-19 in the capital Beijing which has seen a sudden spike in the number of infections, health officials said on Sunday.
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At least 26 workers were killed and 50 others injured when a major fire engulfed a coal mine in China's north-eastern Liaoning province on Wednesday soon after a mild earthquake jolted the region, in one of the worst mine accidents in the country in recent years.
The People's Liberation Army Rocket (Missile) Force tested the new missile in the Bohai Sea.
The Wuhan municipal headquarters in a notification said the revisions were made in accordance with related laws and regulations as well as the principle of being responsible for history, the people and the deceased.
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Four new subway lines will open to the public this month, which will extend the capital's subway to 527 kms, the longest in the country.
It is the country's second aircraft carrier, after the Liaoning, and the first to be made domestically.
Amid mounting tensions with the United States in the disputed South China Sea, China on Thursday said it is building a second aircraft carrier and hinted at plans to make a third one to enhance its blue water capabilities.
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