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China is ​willing to strengthen economic and trade ‌cooperation with the United States, its Commerce Minister Wang Wentao said during a meeting with ​U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, China's ​Commerce Ministry said in a statement.

China's Education Ministry on Friday announced a framework to promote students' physical and mental health with measures that include banning ​schools from assigning excess homework and encroaching on student break ‌time.

Chinese swimming authorities said on Wednesday they have launched an investigation into cyberbullying of diving ​star Quan Hongchan, a three-time Olympic gold medallist, ‌and reported the matter to police.

A former chairman of China Eastern Airlines Group has been indicted on bribery charges, China's top prosecutor said on Friday, the latest in a ​string of high-profile anti-graft actions as Beijing steps up a campaign against corruption.

Hundreds of Chinese squid vessels gather each year just outside Argentina’s EEZ. Officials in Argentina and the U.S. have raised concerns about overfishing and possible intelligence gathering — claims China rejects as speculative.

Rescue workers used boats or swam through floodwaters to evacuate people in waterlogged areas across central and southwest China on Wednesday ​after torrential rain killed at least 25 people and shut ‌businesses, schools and transport links.

The most powerful storm to strike mainland China this year forced more than 260,000 people ​to evacuate their homes in northeastern Liaoning province, ‌as Typhoon Bavi brought intense flooding.

Authorities issued the highest flash-flood alert for parts of the country in the ‌wake of Typhoon Noul.

The owner of a Hong Kong reptile education center, who is co-hosting a major wildlife expo for ​children, has been charged with the illegal possession of ‌endangered species, local authorities said Wednesday.

Heavy rains and floods in China's northwestern province of Shaanxi have caused roads to collapse, and ​damaged bridges and power and communications infrastructure, forcing ‌the evacuation of more than 25,000 people in the past 24 hours, public broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday.