In 2015, China won the bid to host the Winter Olympics, making Beijing the first city in the world to host both the Summer and Winter Games. This spurred the launch of a winter sports development plan that aims to build 650 skating rinks and 800 ski resorts by 2022.
In 1982, she and another American woman founded Chindex. They initially imported many kinds of equipment, including big machines for ports and mines. But they soon specialized in medical equipment.
Imports expanded 15.6 percent to 1.17 trillion yuan, leaving a trade surplus of 263.6 billion yuan.
In 1958, the young professor was sent to Moscow State University to study metallurgy and heat treatment, and put what he learned into practice upon returning to China in 1960.
In 2008, the country removed waste dry-cell batteries from the list of hazardous wastes, which meant they could be dumped along with other household wastes.
In 2014, the State Council issued a document to further reform the decades-old hukou system. It called for lifting all hukou restrictions for small towns and cities, loosening hukou restrictions of middle cities in an orderly way, and strictly controlling the population of large and super-large cities.
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In 1988, Yang Shaoming was the first Chinese photographer to clinch a World Press Photo award, from a nonprofit organization based in the Netherlands. Yang's achievement has since paved the way for Chinese photographers to feature prominently at prestigious international competitions.
In 2016, Pennsylvania State University was fined .4 million over its handling of the notorious sexual abuse cases of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, which was a national story in 2011.
In 2016, 15 pilot cities in China were designated to pilot long-term care insurance, including Shanghai; Guangzhou, Guangdong province; and Chengdu, Sichuan province.
In 1996, when Chen Kaizhi was deputy mayor of Guangdong's provincial capital Guangzhou, he was assigned to help Baise city, one of the areas hit hardest by poverty.