New home prices in four first-tier cities -- Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou -- rose 0.5 percent month on month in February, compared with a 0.6-percent increase registered in January.

China's top market watchdog on Friday imposed administrative penalties on 12 companies including Internet giants Tencent and Baidu for violating anti-monopoly law in 10 deals.

Amending and rationalizing the electoral system and rules of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) will ensure the HKSAR's smooth development under the "one country, two systems" policy, a Chinese official said Friday.

A campaign was launched Thursday in Hong Kong to collect signatures in support of the decision on improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by the National People's Congress (NPC). 

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland, in actual use, expanded 31.5 percent year on year to 176.76 billion yuan in the first two months of the year, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday.

The National Forestry and Grassland Administration Friday released a bulletin showcasing advances in the forestry sector in 2020 to mark China's Tree-Planting Day.

Boon Sing Ang, a Malaysian business executive who lives and works in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, last month became the first nonresident expatriate to receive a Shanghai residence card for foreign talent.

By integrating illuminating, conductive fibers and flexible textiles, a research team from Shanghai-based Fudan University has developed a functional fabric display system based on large-area display textiles. In the results of the research recently published in the journal Nature, the team reported a piece of display fabric measuring 6 meters in length and 0.25 meters in width.

China launched its Long March-7A Y2 carrier rocket on Friday from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's island province of Hainan. The rocket blasted off at 1:51 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the launch site, sending an experimental satellite into the planned orbit. The satellite will be mainly used for in-orbit tests of new technologies including space environment monitoring.

Photo taken on March 11, 2021 shows pear blossoms in Cizhu Town of Yubei District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.