Rail authorities in the Yangtze River Delta region are offering discount tickets for return bullet trains with few passengers during the chunyun, or Spring Festival travel rush, for the first time, xinhuanet.com reported.

Tourists view colorful lanterns at the Baota Park in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 8, 2020. 

The 34th Harbin International Ice Sculpture Competition concluded in Harbin on Wednesday. The ice sculpture made by a Russian team won the first prize at the end of the competition.

Flowers and green plants become popular among local customers as the Spring Festival draws near. 

Patients suspected of having symptoms of pneumonia as they enter Hong Kong from Wuhan in Hubei province will be mandatorily quarantined and banned from leaving Hong Kong starting from Wednesday, the city's health authorities announced on Tuesday.

Chinese health product company Quanjian was fined 100 million yuan (around 14.4 million U.S. dollars) for organizing and leading a pyramid scheme, according to a court in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Wednesday.

Many soon-to-be brides and grooms in China are calling for civil affairs authorities to work one extra day on Feb 2, a Sunday, so they can tie the knot on the special day, a perfectly symmetric date.

China's education authority issued a regulation on Tuesday banning primary and junior high schools from using overseas textbooks, which analysts believe will help improve teaching quality, build academic autonomy and protect the copyright of overseas books.

China's Tibet Autonomous Region has basically eradicated absolute poverty, chairman of the regional government announced Tuesday.

The average monthly wage in 38 major cities of China hit 8,829 yuan ($1,269.22) in the winter season of 2019, the Economic View reported on Tuesday based on a talent supply report by Zhaopin.com, a major online recruitment platform in China.