- Most young Chinese prefer to have one child: survey
- Shanghai abolishes primary school admission exams
- Largest-ever children's play to premiere
- Resurrected sishu tries to revive traditional culture

- Chinese Acrobats Gear up to Wow Olympic Crowds
- Ancient painting recreated in paper-cut art (amazing photos)
- First movie co-produced by Disney, Chinese film makers to be shown next year
- 30 mln juveniles suffering from disorders
- Ancient colors disappearing
- First folk costume museum opened in Shanghai (photos)

- Giant pandas to leave gilded cages
- Chinese bid farewell to etiquette telegrams
- Business booming for original oil paintings
- Super-size sweater (photos)
- "Drifting" books available in Shanghai
- Twenty cities promote new Silk Road tourism

- Giant panda enjoys celebrity status in USA (cute photo alert)
- Tips Sought to Protect Great Wall
- Lusheng contest held in Guangxi (great photos)
- Kung Fu Gets Popular Among Chinese Schools
- The Teahouse of Ancient Boards
- 45 PhD mentors punished in Jilin

- Demand for Chinese Language Courses in US Soars
- Wedding planners add romance to Chinese wedding ceremonies
- 30,000 pet nurses needed in South China city
- No more rave parties at the Great Wall
- Xitang town: Tom Cruise's 3rd mission (photos)
- Archaeologists find 4,500-year-old fortune-telling instruments

- 21 giant pandas born with artificial reproduction tech survive this year
- White-collar workers interested in "flash marriage"
- Expats will need certificates for certain jobs
- Cracked hot water pipe drenches priceless books
- Archaeologists rescuing relics for Three Gorges Dam
- China to hold worldwide Kungfu competition

- China faces serious situation in fighting bird flu
- Spring Blossom project helps 1.6 mln girls back to school
- China's Most Ancient Town Showcased on Stamp
- Great Wall cries over graffiti (photos)
- Expert: Sex revolution in place in China
- 2,000-year-old periwig unearthed in SW China

- Medical training program is saving little lives in China
- Endangered tiger cubs receive wilderness training
- Oldest dragon totem found
- US couple's contemporary Chinese artwork collection to be shown in Beijing
- 10 primary schools to try out US textbooks

- China to revive ceramics industry
- Building of 1,400-year-old bridge celebrated
- Qing-Dynasty vase fetches record price (photo)
- Miniature of Yuanmingyuan fountains up for auction (photo)
- Ruling center of Tang Dynasty to be restored
- China's Ethnic Minorities

- Chinese acrobatics leaps to modern age
- Qinshihuang Mausoleum contains "state treasury", archaeologist
- Internet 'baby sale' sparks investigation

- Forbidden City celebrates 80th anniversary (great photos)
- Insider lifts veil of secrecy surrounding Forbidden City
- Battle to halt sandstorms continues in the north
- Youngsters to enjoy cartoon based on textbooks
- Super Girl is Time magazine hero
- More than 7% of Chinese age 65 or above

- China calls for enhanced Sino-US cultural exchanges
- Giant panda cub gets vaccination (warning: cute photo alert)
- China's top female percussion band to perform in US
- Three Chinese Movies to Compete for Oscar
- Clay Whistle Photo
- More Chinese women contracting breast cancer at earlier age

- Disney selects cartoon scripts in China
- Canadian fairy tale has Chinese version
- Group photos: Confucius birth anniverary marked
- Amazing Sichuan Opera (two cool photos)
- New Museum with Yin Ruins Relics Attracts Visitors
- Shanghainese Asked to Speak Putonghua

- Shining spotlight on mooncakes
- The name of the rose
- Healing power of age-old therapy
- Beijing holds 1st Chinese culture festival (photos)
- National Treasure to Be on Display at Its Home Place (one photo)
- Wang Anyi - a Female Writer of Constant Innovations

- Ancient-style wedding held in Shenyang (photos)
- 30 percent of pregnancies unintended
- Enigmas of Chinese beauty come to puzzle many
- Fengshui Program Stumbles Amid Disputes
- Kaleidoscope lantern shown (photos)
- Forbidden City to have overall face-lift

- Have fun with egg-carving (amazing photos)
- Hong Kong Disneyland preview (11 photos)
- Chinese Bestseller Set to Hit World's Bookshelves
- Male Nurses Join the Frontlines
- China began salt production 3000 years ago: archaeologists
- Only 4% Chinese Women Consider Themselves Beautiful

- Largest ever celebration of Chinese culture to debut in US Kennedy Center
- 21 percent of Chinese women start their own business
- Super Girls -- a double-edged sword
- Huge ancient porcelain pit discovered (photos)
- Secrets of Long-lost Civilization Continue to Tantalize Researchers
- Website translates courses

- More women and children smoking
- Harbin Ice and Snow World 2005 (photos)
- "Great Wall Under Water" submerged again (photos)
- Three "super girls" to compete in TV singing contest final
- Romans in China stir up controversy
- Buffer zone to protect Forbidden City

- Simulation marriages on Internet in vogue
- Nurturing the art of tea
- 600-year-old ancient warship found in Shandong
- Art Class Tailored for Poverty-stricken Children
- Actors must get approval for profitable performances
- HK issues "4 great inventions" stamps (photos)

- Children in home schooling face problems
- Ban on college student marriages to be lifted
- China's famous towers
- Recommended books on China
- Effort to Make China's Valentine's Day Official
- Traditional festival vies for recognition

- Chinese not prefer "comrade" to address peers
- Collection of Chinese Folk Songs
- A blooming idea -- 2 national flowers for China
- Heaven and Earth Sculpture Exhibition (photos)
- 'Monkey King' not Fear Hollywood's Shrek
- Death toll of pig-borne endemic in Sichuan rises to 38

- Teaching method holds key in Chinese learning
- People capable of Chinese short of demand globally
- Fate of Chinese ancient sites along Silk Road under threat: experts
- Tsui Hark Redefines Kung Fu in His Latest Movie
- Unhealthy performances to be banned
- Sanmao, China's favorite son turns 70

- English Harry Potter Bewitches Chinese Readers
- Honesty crisis has hit Chinese fledglings
- "Panoramic China" series introduce China's unique local features
- More graduate students marry in secret
- Unwanted pregnancy hot line receives ignorant girls
- Trafficked babies need parental love

- Underground terracotta army in battle for survival
- China continues search for missing Peking Man skulls
- China to standardize minority language translation system
- Calligraphy, painting master Qi Gong dies
- Casinos bordering SW China closed due to crackdown on gambling in China
- China opens wallet to protect Silk Road

- Three major changes in airport passenger declaration system
- Shanghai population sees its first "zero growth"
- "Setting air conditioner at 26 degree Celsius" campaign launched in Beijing
- 2,005-Meter Kite Flying in the Sky in Xuyi (photo)
- The Sprouting Chinese Cartoon Industry
- Zhang Ziyi Invited to Join Oscar's Academy

- High expectations of children tarnishes image of Chinese mothers
- Child marriage already banned centuries ago
- Special care slated for "big exam" sitters
- 110,000 lawyers step into every aspect of Chinese social life
- "Vinegar bath" popular in Sichuan province
- Chinese Sun surname history

- US doctors offer free surgery for handicapped children
- Better books for children
- A turtle's birthday (photo)
- "Hamlet" given a Chinese twist (photo)
- Dragon boat race (photos)
- Kung fu shoes travel far abroad (photo)

- Consumers on wild spending spree
- Traditional Chinese medicine: a magnet to foreign students
- Old Summer Palace in new controversy
- HK Tourism Board publishes ticket prices of Disneyland
- PLA has toymaker in its sights
- National tea art TV contest kicks off

- Chinese family: advancing from tradition to modernity
- China commemorates ancient seafaring hero
- Emperor Qianlong's privy seal to be auctioned (photo)
- Fairy Tale Wedding in Hong Kong Disneyland
- 'Live life now' is mantra of new rich
- Old man breaks age barrier to become a famous model

- Bad lifestyles sicken Guangzhou's elderly
- Only half Chinese can communicate in Putonghua
- Liaoning conjoined twins now separated
- Beijingers to drink Yangtze River water in 2010
- Imperial examination system exhibition opens in Shenzhen (photos)
- Largest mask for Nuoxi opera discovered (photo)

- Enthusiasm for travel cools
- Ice cream born in China 3,000 years ago
- House seekers search for dream
- Pandas could make maiden trip to Taiwan
- Sand sculptures in Qingdao (quite amazing)

- News website created all by children
- Troubles at home
- Pengshan - the home of longevity
- Shanghai develops underground facilities
- Throw a pastry and hit your future wife
- Priceless treasures on show in Beijing (photos)

- Searching for home from space: Chiao's story
- Great Wall can be seen from space (photo)
- Lion delivers extra-large litter
- Hand measured (great photos)
- White Crane Rock Beam applies for world cultural heritage (photo)
- Zoomable satellite photos of China

- Training pandas in Sichuan (cute photos)
- China reduces schooling burden of students through limiting homework quantity
- China to reclaim looted, stolen relics
- A Chinese woman with the longest hair
- Old palace has new environment snag

- Beijing mulls constructing first SOS children village
- 160,000 villagers bid farewell to the Three Gorges
- Regong art in Qinghai Province (photos)
- 10 new jobs in search of skilled workers
- Underground Great Wall amazes foreigners (photos)
- Road accidents in China claimed 23,000 lives in first quarter

- Foreigners in Shanghai show zeal for Chinese etiquette
- The 12 Girls' Band trendsetting with the classics
- Bamboo slips shed light on rise of Great Wall
- Famous silk street faces tight check on fake goods
- Chinese footwear exhibition opens in Changsha (photos)
- Beijing close to US in card-based consumption

- School children reel from lack of sleep
- Let's hear it for the newborn ear tests
- Ancient knife proves longer astronomical history (photo)
- Forbidden City under biggest overhaul in nearly a century
- New Silk Alley Market to open this week
- Ancient Chinese stunt still alive in Guangxi

- China's divorce rate 21.2% up in 2004
- Sticky porridge used to cement ancient walls
- Guangzhou mulls no-vehicle day
- Martial art fictions appear in school textbook; debate ensues
- Shaolin kung fu to apply for world's intangible heritage
- China to join world release of sixth Harry Potter book

- China's divorce rate 21.2% up in 2004
- Sticky porridge used to cement ancient walls
- Guangzhou mulls no-vehicle day
- Martial art fictions appear in school textbook; debate ensues
- Shaolin kung fu to apply for world's intangible heritage
- China to join world release of sixth Harry Potter book

- The Lantern Festival
- Welfare scheme to cover elderly
- Giant panda bone found in 4,000-year-old grave
- Chinese audio & video mall opens in US
- Tibetan palace to be renovated
- Ancient puppets prepare for TV debut

- New Year celebrations mirror changes in Chinese family life
- Young Chinese celebrate Spring Festival in new fashion
- 490,000 yuan needed to rear a child in China?
- China promotes regional cooperation to revitalize Silk Road
- Three Gorges Dam to open to tourists
- Panda poo excites experts

- Chinese people celebrate Spring Festival in various ways
- Traditional New Year food losing attraction?
- Couples of single-child families frown upon holiday
- Blooming bamboo causes pandas to go hungry
- New Year blockbusters flag revival for China's cinema
- New cartoon featuring mythological pig to be shown nationwide

- Lucky Rooster Year beckons
- Coke cans used to make rooster (amazing photo)
- Beijing starting meningitis vaccination
- Special fund for Beijing's new mums
- Old photos of Great Wall on show (photos)
- A feast for eyes this holiday (photo)

- Lunar new year draws near (great photos)
- Policies help education of girls
- Whose surname for babies to take?
- Chinese among world's top-five fast food fans
- Comics give mythology new lease of life
- Hidden killer stalking villages

- Retiming of Spring Festival for convenience
- 50 years of the Chinese ballet (photos)
- 10 essential reads
- [Chinese] people from the world of culture (photos and short bios)
- China cracks down on fake, substandard food
- Nation's net surfers reach 94 million

- Train ticket prices rise by 15-20 percent for lunar new year
- Face value a big consideration for Chinese
- Jay Chow tops Chinese music chart awards
- Hired "guns" haunt college exams
- More Chinese to become free lancer
- China Zhejiang Acrobatics Troupe has won a gold prize

- Chinese avoid weddings in Year of Rooster
- Collectors pool resources for cultural "buy-back"
- 2004 top Chinese and English search in Google
- 3,000-year-old woodcarving discovered (photo)
- Cartoon nostalgia sweeps China
- Twenty-somethings bear heaviest pressure