Shanxi, China News

In Shanxi Province, shadow play and puppet shows enjoy a history of thousands of years.

It's a muggy afternoon in June and high school students wearing T-shirts stamped with the image of Terry Fox stride past towering high-rises and scooters with honking horns in this small Chinese city that's been coated in haze from the local fiberglass factory for several days.

A Chinese heavy machinery manufacturer has delivered key excavator parts to Australian mining giant Rio Tinto.

The three-warship high-sea-training taskforce under the North China Sea Fleet of the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army came back to Qingdao in east China's Shandong province on the afternoon of June 10, 2013 after successfully completing its training mission at waters of the Western Pacific Ocean.

Its product portfolio includes polyvinyl alcohol resin, white emulsion, re-dispersible emulsion powder, tetrahydrofuran, butyrolactone, sodium diacetate and pentaerythritol.

Outside of China, millions have never even heard of Chinese cities such as Chongqing, Chengde or Xian, yet one mention of Beijing, Shanghai or Hong Kong, and heads will nod enthusiastically.

A heavy-duty machinery manufacturer in north China's Shanxi Province has exported its heavy-duty excavators to South Africa, according to the company.

URUMQI/TAIYUAN, June 9 -- Torrential rain, hail and floods have affected about 98,717 people in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region since Tuesday, local authorities said on Sunday.

Ma Liang was trawling the Internet looking for a bag filter that could be used at the steel plant he works at.

Radio signals have been intercepted from exam rooms where students were sitting China's ongoing national college entrance exam in north China's Shanxi Province, said the provincial radio management authority on Saturday.

Torrential downpours in central China's Hubei Province have left five people dead, affecting 78 counties and cities since Wednesday, local authorities confirmed on Friday.

Goo Goo Dolls, Grandpa's Cough Medicine & Heroes X Villains are just a few of the bands playing around Jax this week.

People walk along a street against wind beside a demolition site on a hazy day in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, Feb. 28, 2013.

Amid the tumult of the Cultural Revolution, the Philadelphia Orchestra performed a series of concerts in China.

China will start a pilot reform of data collection relating to fixed asset investment in 2013, so as to make local economic statistics more reliable, the China Business News reported Monday.

Hanban, the Confucius Institute program headquarters, signed a cooperation agreement with a university in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday.

CHINA will test changes to the way it calculates investment in roads, factories and real estate, as part of efforts to improve the reliability of data.

A community doctor explains to residents the harms of smoking by showing them nicotine dissolved in water in Weifang, Shandong province, on Thursday.

Tibet is like an endless book to read for Wang Xiaobin, associate researcher with China Tibetology Research Center in Beijing, who has experienced the snowy plateau for over 20 years and is ready to devote to Tibetology research all his life.

The far-sea training taskforce under the North Sea Fleet of the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army continued training in the waters of the West Pacific for far-sea training on May 28, 2013.