The All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce released its latest list of China’s top 500 private companies on Thursday, with two companies based in East China’s Anhui province making the cut. Wenyi Investment Group Co. registered 31.80 billion yuan ($4.49 billion) in operating revenue in 2018, ranking 262nd, while Shanying International Group Co. ...

The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. End of Heat, (Chinese:处暑), the 14th solar term of the year, begins this year on Aug 23 and ends on Sep 8. End of Heat implies that most parts in China are getting rid of the hot summer and entering autumn. But in some areas, especially in South China, autumn is late in coming ...

The donation of a dead body or its organs is prohibited if the deceased has not previously formally consented. But that could change as lawmakers seek legal solutions to ease the country's severe shortage of organ donors and cadavers for research. A proposed revision to the draft civil code made public on Thursday would lift the restriction by giving clo...

The National Meteorological Center issued a yellow alert Thursday morning as some parts of China are expected to see temperature above 35 degrees Celsius Thursday. The central and northern part of Jiangxi, northwestern Fujian, eastern Sichuan Basin, northern Guangdong, Hunan and Chongqing will see the temperature rise to 37 to 39 degrees Celsius, the ale...

President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, talks on Wednesday with Li Yingchuan, a villager in the Huanghuatan community, Gansu province. [Photo/Xinhua] President calls for better livelihoods, healthier growth President Xi Jinping called for further efforts in poverty reduction as he concluded his fou...

18 publishers from East China’ s Anhui province are taking part in the 26th Beijing International Book Fair, the second largest book fair in the world. The Anhui pavilion showcases more than 800 publications and multiple creative cultural products as part of the province’s latest achievements in the publishing industry. Huang Kunming, a member of the ...

China's State Council decided Wednesday to further ease market access by promoting separation of permits from business licenses in pilot free trade zones (FTZ). Starting December 1, the country will carry out trial programs of separating operation permits from business licenses in all pilot FTZs, according to a statement released after a State Council ex...

Chinese researchers have completed an in-situ detection experiment on near-space atmospheric turbulence in Northwest China's Qinghai province and Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, according to Science and Technology Daily on Wednesday. The energy and mass exchange and the pollutants transport and diffusion in the atmosphere are closely related t...

President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, works at an afforestation program in Gulang county, Gansu province. He learned about the latest developments in desertification control during the inspection tour. XIE HUANCHI / XINHUA Public awareness of lucid waters, lush hills urged President Xi Jinping un...

A total of 76 suspects have been arrested and prosecuted for telecom fraud in east China's Anhui Province, according to local police. In April last year, a Taobao shop owner reported to police in the city of Tongling that they were cheated out of about 40,000 yuan (about 5,674 U.S. dollars) on a platform claiming to help promote the store. After two mon...

Five cities in East China’s Anhui have been selected to pilot a national program featuring medical treatment partnerships. Wuhu, Bengbu, Ma’anshan, Tongling and Lu’an are among 118 cities nationwide to establish medical treatment partnerships in a bid to promote effective cooperation and coordination between different types of medical institutions, ac...

President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visits Jiayu Pass, a frontier fortress at the west end of the Great Wall, on Tuesday during his inspection tour of Gansu province. [Photo/Xinhua] Professionals encouraged to tell stories of Dunhuang, spread voice of China worldwide President Xi Jinping underl...

Villagers make bamboo screen at Xiaoling village of Dingjiaqiao town in Jingxian county, east China's Anhui Province, Aug. 15, 2019. The bamboo screen is an essential tool to make Xuan paper, a kind of handmade paper for traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. It is a traditional handicraft in Xiaoling and has been listed as a provincial intangible ...

The Anhui delegation won 45 gold medals, 41 silvers and 78 bronzes at the 2nd Youth Games of the People's Republic of China held in Taiyuan, capital of North China’s Shanxi province, from Aug 8 to 18. 1,575 athletes and more than 500 coaches and staff members from Anhui province took part in the sports meet. 1,097 athletes entered the finals, representi...