Bidding for the design of the mega-project Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge will begin on Monday, a senior Hong Kong government official said on Thursday.
Guangdong province recorded markedly slower growth in its major economic indices in the first 10 months of this year and could face new challenges in the next two years.
A county Party secretary in Liaoning province, who was forced to resign for sending police officers to Beijing in January to arrest a reporter for her report about him, has sparked a new uproar in the media.
Pudong New Area, Shanghai's flagship development zone, will maintain double-digit economic growth next year, despite the global financial crisis, its top official said on Thursday.
Fifty-eight people who were paid hush money not to report on a fatal coal mine accident in Shanxi province in September have been punished, the General Administration of Press and Publication said on Thursday.
All 15 cities that will host activities for the 2008 Guangdong International Tourism and Culture Festival are ready to welcome tourists from home and abroad, organizers said.
A commercial horse race meeting, approved by the government, will be held here on Saturday, the first on the mainland since the formation of the People's Republic, the Changjiang Daily reported Tuesday.
