After sending a probe to Mars in 2020, China plans to explore three asteroids and land on one of them to conduct scientific research, according to a Chinese asteroid research expert.

Small loans for the poor have become more accessible in China, as the government is intensifying a national campaign to fight poverty.

A Chinese scientist has participated in making recommendations for human gene editing that cover basic laboratory research, and somatic and germline (heritable) genome editing, according to the Chi

BEIJING - China on Thursday issued a white paper on the country's transport network, reviewing the sector's tremendous changes in past decades and setting goals for its further expansion in coming

SHANGHAI -- One person died and seven others were injured after a fire engulfed an aerosol factory in Shanghai on Wednesday, local authorities said.

LHASA - A train full of Tibetan bottled water left Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, and headed for the city of Ningbo in eastern China's Zhejiang province Wednesday morn

China shored up its regulations on chemical residues in food with a new national standard, the Ministry of Agriculture said Wednesday.

BEIJING - China's food safety system will soon cover almost all kinds of food and major hazard factors, according to a report released Friday.

BEIJING - China will set up 126 monitoring sites nationwide to study the effect of air pollution on health.

BEIJING - The average life expectancy for Chinese will reach 77 years by 2020, one year more than the figure in 2015, the health authority announced Friday.