1. BeijingTop city in per-capita patentsThe ratio of invention patents for every 10,000 Beijing residents reached 33.6 last year, ranking the city at the top of the country, Fu Xiaohui, deputy chief of the city's intellectual property office, announced on April 10. "Intellectual property has added v...

The water area of Dongting Lake in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River was 73 percent less on May 20 than the same day last year, according to statistics from the administration. As of Monday, the lingering drought in Hubei has affected nearly 10 million people, about one sixth of its population...

GUANGZHOU: South China's Guangdong Province is seeking foreign financial support to start construction this year of a high-speed railway to link Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, to the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone.According to Yang Tusheng, general manager of Guangdong Railway Group Corp, h...