A new legislation will be in effect on Jan. 1, 2022, to protect migratory birds, especially Siberian cranes, on China's largest freshwater lake of Poyang.

A villager checks the drying of chrysanthemums at a workshop in Qianjia Village of Sanjiaotang Township, Changning City, Hengyang, central China's Hunan Province, Nov. 23, 2021. 

Changfeng School sits deep in the Luoxiao Mountains. Among its 30 teachers, there are six couples. For the 170 students in the school, these couples are not only teachers teaching them knowledge but more like parents taking care of lower graders and boarding students. Wang Jingming, 46, is a chemistry teacher. In 2004, he married Deng Jun, a math teacher at the school. 

Liuzhou Luosifen, a soup dish dubbed by some people as "durian of soup" for its strong smell, features rice vermicelli soaked in a spicy broth flavored by river snails and topped with ingredients including pickled bamboo shoots, string beans, peanuts and tofu skin. In the first three quarters of this year, bagged Liuzhou Luosifen achieved sales revenue of 11.223 billion yuan (about 1.75 billion U.S. dollars), a year-on-year increase of 45.7%.

China launched a new Earth-observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Tuesday.

Central China's Hunan Province saw its trade with countries along the Belt and Road increase by 19.8 percent from January to October, Changsha customs said Tuesday.

The steady rollout of 5G networks will help promote the healthy development of the digital economy, which has become a key force in restructuring the global economy and transforming the global competitive landscape.

China has the confidence and capability to keep prices stable within a reasonable range despite the expected inflationary pressure likely continuing globally, the country's top economic regulator said.

Premier Li Keqiang urged local authorities on Monday to build a good environment for China's more than 150 million market entities to survive and thrive as he chaired a symposium in Shanghai with the leaders of several provincial governments.

The bodies of four geological survey workers who went missing in Yunnan province's Ailao Mountains were found on Sunday and Monday.