Central government’s warning about ‘signs of terrorism’ in escalating protest violence ‘provides cover for local authorities to continue on path they are on’.

Global Times chief Hu Xijin takes aim at shopping centre, saying it was weak for allowing ‘rioters’ to remove Chinese national flags and toss them into sea.

Heavy rain causes landslides and flooding, forcing more than a million people to leave their homes.

Li Jinxing says he will appeal against the decision by authorities in eastern China

Chen says he was told he would ‘disappear’ if he continued to represent the daughter-in-law of a jail former Chinese leader.

The southern mainland city was a test bed for market reforms 40 years ago and now Beijing is banking on it to spearhead development in the years ahead.

Xi Jinping and other senior leaders lead the mourning for Li, a controversial figure who was accused of playing a key role in the bloody suppression of pro-democracy protesters in 1989.

Chinese scientists say they have developed controls to help steer spent boosters crashing back to Earth.

Three weeks of persistent hot weather has set new benchmarks for power use and maximum temperatures, authorities say.

Observers say Beijing could take a more hardline position to try to end the situation if it deteriorates, including declaring a state of emergency.

Earlier research estimated that in 2015 alone, 67,000 premature deaths in China were attributed to ozone, but more recent studies suggest that figure might have been understated.

Effect of pollution that absorbs and scatters sunlight is made clearer by ‘unprecedented’ data, researchers say after study underlining the potential rewards as Beijing aims to switch from coal to solar and other clean energy.

While much work has been done on mitigation, focus turns to adapting to changing circumstances of global warming.

It will be world’s largest single-terminal airport – and could eventually become the busiest by passenger traffic.

Veterans of Sino-Japanese war – which ended 74 years ago – among those likely to be set free, state media says.

After two decades of inaction, Chinese President Xi Jinping has set a deadline for the nation.

Study by US scientists based on 44 years of satellite imagery says changes to seasonal run-offs pose growing threat to water supplies for 800 million people.

Dai Zigeng, former publisher of popular daily The Beijing News, has been accused of ‘serious violations of discipline and law’.

The film has the support of Beijing’s Ministry of Public Security.

Inadequate infrastructure and industry standards are holding the country back in the battle to save the environment, new study finds.

Chinese ambassador to Britain joins chorus of criticism of US ‘economic bullying’, accuses Washington of ulterior motive.

Li Dong, director of the industrial equipment department at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, is suspected of violating ‘party discipline and law’.

State-owned enterprises are an issue at the centre of the US-China trade war, with Washington demanding a level playing field for its businesses in China.

Xinhua story from last year is republished by online outlets and goes viral.

Falsified monitoring information risks directing clean-up efforts away from where they are needed most.

Chinese premier calls on cadres to give top priority to fresh graduates, demobilised military personnel and migrant workers.

China’s process is modelled on one used by US, but only incorporated companies can apply for relief and there will be no public hearings.

First public security conference since 2003 may be way of preparing for possible unrest amid US trade war.

Internet users see trade war with Washington as challenge to a Chinese sovereignty that has grown strong and increasingly vocal in the two decades since journalists perished in US-led strike on Belgrade.

Steel plants are now biggest source of harmful emissions after strict curbs on coal plants came into force.