Five people were buried by a rain-triggered landslide in Southwest China's Guizhou province, authorities said Friday.

China has completed the installation of the world's largest hydropower-generating unit and launched a trial, according to the China Three Gorges Corporation.

Nearly 76 percent of the sewage generated in Guangdong province last year was directly discharged into local rivers, the province reported on Monday.

Two miners have been confirmed dead and six others remain trapped under a flooded colliery pit for the fourth day in Hunan province, rescuers said on Monday.

China has around 260 million people suffering from chronic diseases which are responsible 85 percent of all deaths, Beijing Times reported Tuesday citing a Ministry of Health report.

China has set a target of producing and selling 500,000 energy-efficient and alternative-energy vehicles a year by 2015, and five million vehicles by 2020.

Eight miners were pulled to safety on Sunday after 16 were trapped underground for more than three days in a flooded colliery in Central China.

China now has 260 million sufferers of chronic diseases, which are being blamed for up to 85 percent of the country's deaths, according to the 2012-15 action plan on chronic-disease prevention and

Two miners have been confirmed dead and six others remain trapped under a flooded colliery pit for the fourth day in Central China's Hunan province, rescuers said Monday.

Rescuers have retrieved 14 bodies from a rain-triggered mudslide in Southwest China's Sichuan province on June 28 while 26 others remain missing, sources with the rescue commanding center said Mond