The costs of car license plates in Shanghai increased by more than 10,000 yuan ($1,600) in the city's latest auction, forcing the government to put back a price ceiling for the next two months.
Top-end brews are pouring in while cheap brands inundate China. A changing culture is transforming the market as the country toasts the German Oktoberfest tradition with its own celebrations.
Despite Wang Zhangyi's excitement for a school-organized autumn outing on Friday, a trip he had been looking forward to for weeks, his mother was nothing but reluctant and anxious.
Lawyers and students from universities in Gansu and Henan provinces are asking the authorities to strengthen supervision of mandatory student internships and create legislation to address abuses.
Chinese tightrope walker Adili Wuxor walked without safety nets or harnesses for 331 meters above a strip of the Great Wall in Jixian county in Tianjin on Friday.
An education expert called on Chinese universities to fairly share grants for students from poor families in order to protect their personal privacy.
Shanghai unveiled its Clean Air Action Plan on Friday, which aims to reduce the concentration of PM2.5 by 20 percent to the 2012 level by 2017.
A senior official urged trade unions on Friday to guarantee workers' right to rest and ensure they work "happily and with esteem".
Cleaner Wu Minghua eats students' leftovers from lunch with his colleagues at a dinning hall of Yantai University, in Yantai city, East China's Shandong province, Oct 16, 2013.
China is determined to make extra efforts to protect its traditional and historic villages, as a huge number of them have been demolished amid rapid urbanization.
An online cartoon video that explains how to become a leader in China has gone viral, and experts believe its success and popularity could encourage the government to think of new ways to communicate with the public.
A total of 129 officials at prefectural level or above have been investigated for suspected corruption and bribery in the first eight months of this year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Thursday.