Weifang, China News

Feb. 3, 2010, 8:57 a.m. Confucius, the ancient Chinese philosopher who prodded his fellow countrymen to seek their fortunes in a decent manner, would now find his portraits and sermons printed on lottery tickets, the only form of gambling allowed by the Chinese government.

Lottery tickets bearing the image and sayings of Confucius are to be sold across China despite incurring complaints that they disrespect Chinese culture since going on sale in the philosopher's home in the east of the country.

Changda International is a Weifang-based specialty chemicals producer. Apart from offering a wide array of organic and inorganic fertilizers, Changda is, according to the company, the largest producer of snow melting agent in China.

Sun Shanwu, former vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Henan Provincial Committee, went on trial Monday on corruption charges.

A total of 1480 bamboo veneers bearing scriptures of Chinese classics, like Standards for Students and Tao Te Ching, or The Classic of the Way, are stuck to a stair-guardrail in a school classroom in east China's Shandong province on Thursday, January 7, 2010.

Urged on by superstitious parents, flocks of Chinese young people are rushing to get married before February 14, the start of the 2010 Lunar New Year.

To many, a bagel may be just a doughnut-like bread roll for breakfast. But to Chinese American Lejen Chen, it is something that changed her life.

A foreign teacher tries Chinese calligraphy at Weifang Painting and Calligraphy Institute in Weifang, the well-known city of kite, east China's Shandong province, Sept.

Simon Fraser University graduate Aron Aytona stands next to the 2,000-year-old Banaue Rice Terraces of the northern Philippines.

Chinese auto part suppliers, along with the largest global European suppliers, are considered most likely to buy economically-distressed competitors to form giant global companies, according to a new study.

Scent of lilies and chrysanthemums fills the air in a courtyard in downtown Beijing's Miliangku Hutong, the residence of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and his wife, Zhuo Lin.