In 1987, the Chinese rose was chosen as the flower to represent Beijing. Three years later, when the city began preparations for hosting the 1990 Asian Games - the first large-scale international sports event staged in the People's Republic of China - large quantities of floribunda roses were planted along the roads, according to Zhao.
Illegal firearms seized by police since 2018 are displayed before being destroyed in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Monday. [Photo by Ren Yong/For China Daily]
In 1881, Zhan became the first Chinese to graduate from the Civil Engineering Department of Yale University in the United States.
In 2015 Didi bought a minority stake in Indian car-hailing service Ola, and on Tuesday the company invested in Middle East online taxi service Careem. Didi's partnerships with Taxify extends its reach into 19 European, African and Central American countries.
In 1992, a mother's beloved 1-year-old son was kidnapped by his nanny in Chongqing. The crime was reported to the police, but three years elapsed with no news.
In 2015, after experiencing a slowdown in its industrial development - as happened to much of the country's manufacturing sector - the city created policies to reaffirm the dominant position of advanced manufacturing in its modern industrial system and pledged to make that system stronger.
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In 1865, in an attempt to attract the attention of the Empress Dowager Cixi, a British businessman obtained approval through bribing local governors in Beijing, and finally managed to build a 500-meter-long narrow-gauge railway at the foot of ramparts along the city moat surrounding the Forbidden City.
In 2008, a joint venture of the A320 final assembly line was set up in Tianjin to meet surging demand from Chinese customers. It is the third single-aisle aircraft final assembly line location of Airbus and first outside Europe.
In 2006, Cojaal, a group of Japanese companies, snatched a billion worth contract to establish 359 km section part of the east-west highway, from the eastern province of Bourdj Bou Arreridj to the Tunisian border, within a 40 months term.
In 2015, Great Wall Motor spent nearly 2.8 billion yuan (5.72 million) on R&D. To support such research, the company requires a significant inflow of top-level professionals: it now has more than 7,000 R&D-related employees.