President Xi Jinping has spearheaded a campaign against "historical nihilism," defined as any attempt to use the past to question the party's leading role.
In March, heavy sandstorms hit Beijing for the first time in six years, putting the country's reforestation efforts under scrutiny.
After keeping confirmed new COVID-19 infections to just a handful a day for months, China has seen a spike in cases since the beginning of the year.
Beijing has engaged a public, top-down approach to endorse the experimental vaccines and foster community support.
China's latest plans to overhaul its disease control system may not improve its ability to handle future virus outbreaks, according to some experts inside and outside the country. The reforms, announced in late May, do not fix all the flaws exposed by the new coronavirus ...
In a former mining district in eastern China, authorities have shut dozens of pits and invested billions of yuan to resculpt the broken landscape, creating gardens, forest walks and wetland parks, as well as a small museum dedicated to coal. "There were many villages specializing ...
Widespread misreporting of harmful gas emissions by Chinese electricity firms is threatening the country's attempts to rein in pollution, with government policies aimed at generating cleaner power struggling to halt the practice. Coal-fired power accounts for three-quarters of China's total generation capacity and is a ...
