The nine newly accredited cities are Chongming in Shanghai, Dali in Yunnan province, Fuzhou in Fujian province, Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, Jiujiang in Jiangxi province, Lhasa in the Xizang autonomous region, Suzhou in Jiangsu province, Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, and Yueyang in Hunan province.
Cering Qoizha is excited at the prospect of his company's expansion: a new workshop, which will process 5,000 yaks each year, is set to open in September and will be a major milestone in the company's growth.
With just a few clicks, an engineer switched the live feed on a big screen from a view of about a dozen black-necked cranes foraging in alpine meadows in Nagqu in the Xizang autonomous region, to a glimpse of the majestic, glistening glaciers of Mount Kulha Dardong on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
In a windswept stretch of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a community-led greening effort is transforming barren desert into productive pasture, providing herders with a more stable source of income.
More than a millennium ago, salt traders based in Tsakha township, Ngari prefecture of Xizang autonomous region, would extract natural salt from local salt lakes and transport it by loading it onto yaks and sheep.
The Chinese fought side by side with the anti-fascist Allied powers and the people of various countries during World War II, receiving widespread support from the international community, according to experts at a briefing on July 21 about marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).
When Ngawang Chophel ordered a down jacket online, he knew better than to expect it to arrive the next day. In his remote village in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, delayed deliveries are the norm, unlike the speedy service enjoyed by those who live in the country's more accessible regions.