On the morning of January 2, 2014, Gate 1 of Chenshan Botanical Garden bustled with applause. A total of 25 teams, including staff from the city’s greening bureau, the construction unit of the armed police fire, Shea Tong MTR and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, carried out a fierce tug-of-war competition.
The "Tianma King" Challenge, the final racing event of 2013, made its first stop on December 31 at the Tianma Circuit in Sheshan, Shanghai.
While soybean and minerals are attracting wide attention in trade between China and Brazil, Brazilian aircraft are enlarging the country's share in the Chinese market.
It may take an innocent yet transcendental eye "to see a world in a grain of sand", as the English poet William Blake wrote in the opening of his Auguries of Innocence.
An exhibition combining public art, the practice of non-governmental organizations and innovative designs is making its debut in Shanghai Gongyi Xintiandi Park, a newly opened hub for the city's NGOs and social enterprises.
The unfolding scandal involving a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician who is accused of plagiarism and copying technology for profit exposes flaws in the system that awards special titles to elite professors, observers said.
After months of anticipation, authorities in Shanghai and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, as well as eight ministry-level agencies, have launched a coordinated mechanism to fight and control air pollution in the region.
China had the highest number of outbound tourists and amount of overseas spending in the world last year, according to a report released on Wednesday.