A controversial video has appeared online which shows a dad making his four-year-old son run through the snow.
A video of a toddler crying while running in the snow nearly naked has sparked a firestorm in China, but the boy's father says the exercise was meant to strengthen his son.
China's inflation rate rose in January, which may dash hopes that the country's central bank will soon take more action to support economic growth there.
Do you ever get the feeling you are being watched? Closed circuit cameras recording your movements, strange noises on the phone line, phone calls that suddenly stop, emails being monitored, and private computer files and Facebook being hacked into. Oh yes, secrecy is no secret in China. Privacy is anything but private.
CNN's Stan Grant investigates a new wave of cyber attacks against Chinese citizens.
The skies above China are set to become a lot more crowded as wealth and air travel in the country take-off.
Is China's economy heading for a hard or soft landing? Well, it looks like Chinese consumers can't get enough of Diet Coke and the Colonel's famous secret recipe. That may be good news.
Economic growth in China could drop by half this year in the event of a sharp recession in Europe, the IMF predicted on Monday in a report that underscored the importance of global trade to the world's second largest economy.
Citibank won approval to issue its own credit card in China, making it the first non-Asian bank to enter that market.
The Chinese authorities have contested reports that three Tibetans set themselves on fire last week in a remote area of southwestern China.
The Chinese government has barred the country's airlines from complying with a European Union charge on carbon emissions, escalating a dispute that officials have warned could turn into a trade war.
China has domestic social network sites similar to Western counterparts. CNN's Ramy Inocencio reports.
Anyone interested in world affairs, Chinese diplomacy and China's future should know more about Xi Jinping.
China is considering how to get "more deeply involved" in resolving Europe's debt crisis by co-operating more closely with European rescue funds, Wen Jiabao, Chinese premier, said on Thursday.
The Chinese manufacturing sector has made a surprisingly strong start to the year, with domestic orders cushioning the impact of Europe's debt woes, according to an official survey.
Beijing appears determined to contain the volatile situation in an ethnically Tibetan region of southwestern China by sending in thousands of extra security forces.
Beijing's export limits on raw materials are ruled a violation of trade rules. Ramy Inocencio reports.
CNN's Stan Grant reports from China's Sichuan Province on heavy police presence amid allegations of Tibetans shot dead.
Thousands of Chinese security forces have flooded into an ethnically Tibetan area of southwestern China following large protests that led to violent, sometimes deadly, clashes with the police.
It's after 10 p.m. when we see a light in the distance. We've traveled for more than three hours up a windy, icy road in western China.
The escalation of tensions in ethnically Tibetan regions of China is the latest in a series that have resulted in deaths, frayed ties between the United States and China, and greater pressure from Beijing against the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet for India in 1959 after a failed uprising.
Beijing ushered in the Year of the Dragon with a bold move.
The Tibetan government-in-exile has called on the international community to take action to halt violence in western China that has reportedly killed several Tibetans and left others wounded.
China on Tuesday criticized human rights groups' accounts of a violent clash between Tibetan protesters and the Chinese police, accusing them of trying to "distort the truth."
Until about four years ago, farmer Zhou Jie and his family had been living in rural Anhui province, growing grain and other staples on a small plot of land.
CNN's Eunice Yoon reports on how a technological upgrade to the Chinese rail ticketing system is becoming class warfare.
Chinese authorities sentenced a democracy activist to 10 years in prison for subversion, a relative said Thursday, the third dissident found guilty of similar charges in less than a month.
Stocks in Europe and Asia rallied Tuesday following a report showing China's economic growth slowed, but not as much as had been feared.
Locked in a long-running border dispute, India and China Tuesday agreed to set up a new system aimed at maintaining peace along their treacherous Himalayan boundary.
U.S. stocks are gearing up for a positive open Tuesday, as global investors welcome data that show China's economic growth slowed, but not as much as feared.
China's economic growth slowed at the end of last year, as exports slumped and government restraints took some steam out of the booming real estate market.
A chemical plant in northeast China that sparked huge protests last summer amid concerns about its safety has resumed production, despite earlier assurances that it would relocated.
For the first time, urban dwellers in China now outnumber those living in the country.
After more than a week of visiting the train station to wait in line for tickets and leaving empty-handed, Qin Yun has given up.
Fourteen people were killed in two traffic accidents over the weekend in China, state media reported Sunday.
As many as 200,000 people -- most of them mainland China-based Taiwanese - are expected to return to Taiwan this weekend for an election viewed as critical to the future of an economy that has boomed thanks to warmer ties with Beijing.
There were wild scenes outside a Beijing Apple store for the release of the new iPhone 4S. CNN's Stan Grant reports.
Authorities are investigating the death of a Tibetan villager fatally shot by police during their probe into an alleged theft at a construction site in China's northwest Gansu province, state media reported.
Jobs and money, national identity and political stability.
At least nine Chinese provinces, including Hunan, Chongqing, Jiangsu and Anhui have joined the hunt for a killer they believe responsible for a spate of armed robberies across the country.
China's inflation rate cooled for the fifth month in a row in December.
Chinese inflation edged down in December, setting the stage for a continuation of cautious policy loosening to support the slowing economy.
The $64,000 question facing the global economy this year should be more accurately dubbed the 404,163 yuan question: Can China avoid a big slowdown in growth in 2012?
China has announced it will soon begin releasing information on Beijing's problematic air pollution in finer detail for the first time.
CNN's Ramy Inocencio discusses the impact smog is having on Beijing's economy and population.
China will this week launch its highest-level diplomatic visit to the Gulf for more than two years, seeking to bolster its growing energy ties to the region amid jitters over possible western sanctions on Iranian oil and Tehran's counter-threat to block the Strait of Hormuz.
China's export powerhouse is slowing down.
Thousands of passengers were stranded Tuesday morning after dozens of early morning flights were either canceled or delayed due to a thick, dark cloud of smog that rolled through the Chinese capital.
Thousands of Tibetans took to the streets in western China early this week to commemorate a monk who died Sunday after setting himself on fire, local residents and activists told CNN.
A former Tibetan monk has died and another is seriously injured after setting themselves on fire in southwest China's Sichuan province on Friday -- the 13th and 14th acts of self-immolation in the country since March.
President Barack Obama unveiled Thursday a new military strategy. It calls for "pivoting" from the Middle East to the Far East, focusing partly on the military buildup of China.
Land sales slowed sharply in China last year, according to a series of industry reports that highlight the deepening woes of debt-laden local governments that depend on land auctions as a crucial revenue source.
China may be flexing its growing economic and military muscles, but the country's leadership is concerned about its vulnerability on a more nebulous front: culture.
China's official reading of manufacturing sentiment showed mild expansion in December, an improvement from the slight contraction the month before, a government agency said Sunday.
China plans to put laboratories in space, collect samples from the moon and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to an ambitious plan released this week aimed at putting the country on the global map for space exploration.
China will punish 54 people for their roles in a July train crash that killed 40 people, the government said Wednesday.
Criticism of lax food safety standards at Chinese companies abounded on microblogging sites in China on Tuesday following the latest scare involving dairy products in the country.
China is launching a national online marriage database to fight bigamy, a move that has raised concerns among millions of Chinese about protection of privacy.
Police fired tear gas Friday at demonstrators gathered for a fourth straight day of protests over a coal power plant in the southern Chinese town of Haimen and for the release of villagers detained during earlier scuffles with authorities.
Police fire tear gas at demonstrators who gathered for a fourth day to demand the removal of a local power plant.
Demonstrators faced tear gas and a heavy police presence as they gathered for a third straight day to protest a coal power plant in southern China.
CNN's Stan Grant reports from a China-North Korea border town to gauge reaction to the passing of Kim Jong Il.
Riot police used tear gas to disperse a large crowd of people who gathered Tuesday to protest a coal power plant in southern China.
Actor Christian Bale attempts to visit a blind activist but is chased away by Chinese security. Stan Grant reports.
Thousands of residents gathered in Wukan village in southern China on Friday morning to mourn the loss of a fellow villager who died under police custody amid protest over land seizures.
Residents gather in Wukan, a Chinese village, to mourn the loss of a man who died under police custody.
Earlier this week, the Jian River that runs through the city of Luoyang, Henan province in northern China, turned bloody red.
China slapped duties on U.S.-made cars Wednesday, an action that could imperil billions in sales by Detroit automakers but which will leave most of their sales in the country unaffected.
Taming rapidly rising prices is so 2011.
A school bus accident in eastern China left 15 elementary students dead and eight others hurt, the latest in a series of deadly crashes involving children, local government officials said Tuesday.
International shipping services have returned to the Mekong River, one of the region's busiest trade routes, as four nations launch a joint patrol to secure the waterway.
China's president, Hu Jintao, on Sunday pledged an "even more active" opening up of the country's economy and a renewed commitment to free trade as he sought to respond to concerns over apparent reform fatigue in Beijing and a deteriorating global economy.
China is open to accept a legally binding global agreement to reduce carbon emissions. CNN's Robyn Curnow explains.
Inflation in China is losing some of its momentum, triggering a shift to worries focused more so on the country's slowing economic growth.
Chinese consumer inflation fell in November to 4.2 per cent from a year earlier, a steep decline from 5.5 per cent in October and well below the three year peak recorded in July.
Chinese police bust two child-trafficking rings, rescuing 179 children after a six-month nationwide investigation.
Chinese police have busted two child-trafficking rings after a six-month nationwide investigation, rescuing 178 children and arresting 608 suspects, the country's Ministry of Public Security announced this week.
Thick haze shrouding Beijing forced authorities to cancel flights and close expressways, state media reported Monday.
China's police have long played a game of cat and mouse with China's millions of microbloggers, plowing through terabytes of celebrity gossip and other electronic drivel to drill down to anything that may constitute an anti-state opinion.
On a typical day, China's border with Myanmar is quite porous and vibrant. Often from the same ethnic groups, traders from both sides share much in common and do brisk business.
Though strained at times, relations between China and Myanmar are expected to remain strong. Jaime FlorCruz reports.
Chinese manufacturing slowed down in November, its anemic growth slipping into a contraction, according to published reports on Thursday.
European stocks were unable to maintain the strong rally from the previous session on Thursday, stalling in early trading as sentiment returned to caution.
When an old widower from the central Chinese city of Wuhan went into hospital last summer because of a persistent high fever, he was diagnosed with the AIDS virus -- and made national news.
China is cutting the amount of money banks need to hold in reserve, freeing those funds to stimulate the Chinese economy.
When Li Na clinched the French Open crown, willed on by 100 million Chinese fans, it fulfilled a moment of destiny for both player and country.
He's the ambassador who carries his own bags and the can for the U.S. in China.
China's recent economic downturn is spurring a new wave of worker strikes, which experts say are the only effective channel for them to air their grievances.
China's migrant workers are credited for fueling the economy, but feel they lack rights. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
Alice Waters, US Organic pioneer, says she has high hopes for an organic revolution in China.
About 6,000 residents in southern China were evacuated Thursday after an explosion tore through a warehouse at a chemical plant, state media reported.
China is facing its worst wave of labour unrest since a series of wildcat strikes at Japanese-owned car plants last year, as declining export orders force factories to reduce worker pay.
Chinese manufacturing has hit the brakes, slowing to a 32-month low in November and raising concerns about a global economic slowdown, according to a preliminary report issued Wednesday.
The stock market is like an overly emotional teenaged girl with an unrequited crush. OMG! My life is over!
CNN's Eunice Yoon reports on a government crackdown on village investors burned by underground lending.
As I type this week's column, I look out of my office window and stare at a depressing sight. A heavy blanket of smog and dust hangs over the sky. Buildings nearby are barely visible. Air is barely breathable.
Despite the global financial crisis, China's rich are getting richer.
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