Sichuan, China News

'Our young people look old!" says a recent article in People's Daily and goes on to describe the 1980s generation as "gloomy", "unenergetic" and "behaving in a manner that is too mature for their age". This description is not true of all the people born in the 1980s, and even those that fit the description have enough reasons to be so.

Booming demand for urban rail transit from an increasing number of Chinese cities would reignite the railway equipment industry, the China Securities Journal reported Friday.

A WOMAN who asked for sick leave while pregnant and went on a trip lost her job as Jing'an District People's Court yesterday ruled she violated the company's terms of employment.

A team of cadets from the Armed Police Academy cheer themselves up in Yunnan Satellite TV's reality show Soldiers' Sortie.

Despite growing public opposition to the practice, the Chinese government is not prepared to end the lucrative trade in ursodeoxycholic acid, the active ingredient found in bear gallbladders.

CHENGDU, China>> It was, at first glance, a rather modest initial public offering by a small Chinese company seeking to expand production of the key ingredient used in traditional remedies said to shrink gallstones, reduce fevers and sooth the aftereffects of excessive drinking.

The production line at the Hershey Company West Hershey plant. The new product will be made in China.

Volvo might not succeed in beginning production at its new Chengdu plant by June, according to a China Financial Report.

Three workers at Foxconn factories in China have fallen to their deaths in recent weeks and police are investigating, according to the company.

In China, having too much money is a relatively new problem. But the rapidly growing country is second only to the U.S. in its number of billionaires, according to Forbes magazine.

Bangkok, 20th May 2013 Habitat for Humanity China, part of international non-government housing organization Habitat for Humanity, today announced that it will support families in Qionglai city affected by the recent Sichuan earthquake.

Panda bear cubs Po and De De, who were born at Madrid's Zoo Aquarium on Sept. 7, 2010, are settling into their new lives at the panda reserve in Chengdu, China, where they will live from now on, a keeper told Efe.

Chinese LGBT activists questioned and detained by police after handing out leaflets for International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists in two Chinese cities were detained by police while celebrating International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia on Friday 17 May.

A pair of two-and-a-half-year-old giant panda twins that were born in Spain returned to China on Saturday.

But she said she discovered the site does not allow people to remove petitions so she was unable to comply.

Despite traveling faster than 7 kilometers per second at nearly 700 kilometers above the planet's surface, Korea's Arirang-3 satellite managed to capture these photos of the Dokdo Islets with breath-taking detail.

Amy Li began her journalism career as a crime news reporter in Queens, New York, in 2004.

The photograph above, of three swimmers changing clothes, is part of "China Route 318", a series inspired by Jack Kerouac and Robert Frank, for which Luo Dan drove from Shanghai in the far east of the country to Lhasa in the west.

Workers carry out a practice drill in case of a hydrogen sulfide leak at a natural gas appraisal well of Sinopec in Langzhong county, Sichuan province March 1, 2011.

The FLA's second round of verification assessments found continued improvement in compliance with labor laws at Apple's biggest supplier.