Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, launched a huge afforestation project in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan province, on Thursday. Novartis will cooperate with the Sichuan Provincial Forestry Department in planting about 5 million trees on nearly 4,000 hectares of mountain land ...

Among the 20 primary and middle school students who had gathered for a free weekend English class recently in Xichang, Southwest China's Sichuan province, sat 63-year-old Hu Bigui. "I'm learning English so I can find out if there are foreigners interested in unraveling the mystery of an ancient city...

Old Qiu, an ordinary farmer in Wufeng County of Central China's Hubei Province, has earned an additional 20,000 yuan (US$2,400) by annually growing seven mu (0.46 hectares) of konjac, a taro-like vegetable popular in Japan and South China, since 1997.Wang Jinzhi, a sales director of a supermarket in...

NANNING: Southwest China's Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, along with the Tibet Autonomous Region, have announced that they will work together to develop Shangri-la into a world-class tourist destination.Tourism officials from the three regions will present plans for the construction of an ecological ...