Quzhou, China News

Students recite excerpts of the Analects of Confucius during a ceremony commemorating the 2,562nd birthday of Confucius , a great Chinese thinker, educationist and philosopher, in Quzhou of east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept.

A new old-age pension for China's rural senior citizens is giving them economic independence.

Still tilling their plot of land in North China's Hebei province, 78-year-old Wang Jinshan and his 72-year-old wife, who are not even familiar with the concept of social security, receive 110 yuan in pension payments each month.

Getty Copper Inc. said Wednesday that talks with Chinese company ZGSTG regarding a joint venture announced in September have been called off.

Nine people died and two others were injured in a fire that ripped though a residential apartment in Quzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, local fire brigade said Tuesday.