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Jiang Jie and Wang Lin, enumerators in charge of some 200 households of the Dongdaqiao community, finished their first interview within 10 minutes at about 3:30 pm on August 23, 2010, as the preliminary phase of the nationwide population census that was launched on Aug 15.
Authorities said Saturday that 87 children, rather than 83 stated earlier, had fallen ill at a kindergarten in northwest China's Gansu province on Friday.
China's national weather forecaster warned Saturday that tropical storm Malou was on course to strike the country's east coast just as Lionrock was abating.
A total of 50,000 cotton-padded tents will be sent to homeless quake survivors in Yushu, northwestern Qinghai Province, by the end of this month, local authorities said Saturday.
Another five people have been sickened by a cholera outbreak in an east China county, local health authorities said Saturday.
His doctor, Ma Tiexiang, said the possible cause of his problems might be previous abdominal wounds, or the poor conditions at Zhou's home.
More than 50,000 people will visit an international urban planning and construction expo in Langfang, Hebei province this week.
Puzhai, a township of Chongzuo in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is now the nation's largest Vietnam border trade center.
The city has set up more than 3,600 outlets over the past two years to distribute free condoms in areas with a high concentration of migrant workers in a bid to promote safe sex among the city's 6 million transient population, local authorities said on Friday.
About 10,000 trucks were backed up for miles on a northern China highway on Friday, the latest in a series of monster jams that have plagued the overloaded road since maintenance work began on a parallel route earlier this summer.