A miner in northeast China was rescued Saturday after being buried underground for 17 days, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
At least 20 people were killed Saturday in an explosion inside an expressway tunnel in central China's Hunan province, state media said.
Cui Jian burst onto the music scene in China 26 years ago with his signature number, "Nothing To My Name."
CNN's Stan Grant looks at China's talk of war with the Philippines over a disputed island.
Foreign auditing firms will have to appoint a Chinese national as their chief partner in China as part of a sweeping overhaul of the country's accounting industry.
A Chinese military newspaper has warned that the country's armed forces will not allow anyone to challenge China's sovereignty of a tiny island outcrop in the South China Sea.
China's trade surplus jumped in April as imports and exports both further decelerated, renewing fears of a harder than expected landing for the world's second-biggest economy.
CNN's Jonathan Mann reports on how everything surrounding Chen Guangcheng is being censored in China.
An activist escapes, while dissidents are in hiding. CNN's Stan Grant looks at China's most tumultuous period in decades.
They are two men, separated by a gulf of power and privilege. One was born of the Chinese Communist Party, the son of a revolutionary hero and seemingly destined to shape China's destiny; the other has lived in the shadow of the state, poor, persecuted and blind.
"Very busy lately, huh?" Lao Liu greets me one morning on my way to work. "What's going on with this Chen Guangcheng guy?"
The United States took "extraordinary" measures to bring Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to its embassy and plans to help him "every step of the way," the U.S. ambassador to China told CNN on Thursday.
When Ji Yeqing awakened, she was already in the recovery room.
John King speaks with Nicholas Burns about the Chinese dissident who may be in the U.S. embassy and U.S.-China relations.
Abigail Washburn hoped to one day influence China - U.S. relations by using the law. Now, she's discovered another way.
Washington and Beijing may be facing the most tense and delicate moment in their bilateral relationship since the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The reported escape from house arrest of dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng and his apparent flight to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, while not yet officially confirmed, would greatly complicate the Obama administration's efforts to keep relations on an even keel in a year already fraught with bilateral irritants.
Months after agreeing to a $160 million settlement, ConocoPhillips and China announced that the energy giant will pay an additional $191 million in the wake of oil spills last year in north China's Bohai Bay.
A run-down hotel on the outskirts of Chongqing is the unlikely setting for a murder mystery. CNN's Stan Grant reports.
The real estate market was on fire.
The dramatic fall from grace of a man so close to the top of China's hierarchy is "very positive" for the country's political development, one prominent China expert has argued.
Kristie Lu Stout cuts through the rumors surrounding disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai with CNN's Jaime FlorCruz
When yet more news breaks about the Bo Xilai scandal there is a momentary stir in the office of a state-run Chinese newspaper in Beijing.
The world's luxury car makers are flocking to the Beijing Auto Show. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
Villagers in Wukan, China, hold what many call the country's first "free and democratic" elections. Stan Grant reports.
I glimpse the sprawling hotel from a distance, nestled into the lush hills on the outskirts of Chongqing. The air is fresher here, the temperature several degrees cooler than the sprawling metropolis of more than 30 million people below.
A tour bus careened across a highway barrier and slammed into an oncoming box truck in eastern China on Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring 21 others, according to state media.
China has promised a thorough investigation into a scandal that has linked a disgraced former Communist Party chief's wife to the mysterious death of a British businessman.
China downplayed India's successful missile launch this week, saying that the two sides are not rivals but cooperating partners.
There is a saying that Mongolians are born on horses.
Asian security may figure greatly in this year's U.S. presidential election because of urgent questions about North Korea and enduring concerns over how best to manage a rising China and preserve American influence.
China has stepped up its engagement with Africa in recent years, scouring the resource-rich continent in its bid to access natural resources and forge new trade routes. But the Asian powerhouse is also emerging as an attractive business destination for Africans.
Growing numbers of Africans seeking economic opportunities in the world's second largest economy, China.
China expanded the daily trading range that its currency can fluctuate against the US dollar on Saturday in an important step towards allowing the Rmb to eventually float freely.
Federal support for renewable power helped the United States reclaim from China the title of the world's biggest investor in clean energy, researchers for the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts reported Wednesday.
China is slowing, inflation is sleeping, bank stocks are slipping and Google is splitting. Got all that?
Ben Simpfendorfer of Silk Road Associates discusses new trade data that shows some economic growth in China.
China's economy grew 8.1% in the first quarter from a year earlier, its slowest pace in nearly three years.
Contact lenses, diamonds and boiled eggs are things that are better hard than soft. But economic landings in China? That's a different story.
For hours, China's micro-blogging community was abuzz with anxious tweets: an important announcement would be released at 6:30 or 7 p.m. on the official China Central Television (CCTV).
The Philippines said Thursday that it had pulled its largest naval vessel away from a remote lagoon in the South China Sea where it was engaged in an uneasy standoff with two Chinese maritime surveillance ships.
As the drama surrounding one of the Chinese Communist Party's most powerful leaders, Bo Xilai, unfolds with all the twists of a soap opera, attention has now focused on his wife, Gu Kailai, the woman likened to the "Jackie Kennedy of China" and now at the center of a murder investigation.
His work was once the most expensive from a modern Chinese artist. Zeng Fanzhi gives CNN a glimpse of his studio and method.
In terms of underground Chinese art, Ai Weiwei may be grabbing the headlines but he is just one artist in an expanding galaxy of edgy and sometimes provocative work that has been coming out of China's contemporary art scene for more than a decade.
The Philippines said Wednesday that its largest naval vessel is engaged in a standoff with two Chinese maritime surveillance ships in a remote lagoon in the South China Sea.
The U.S., Japanese and Chinese economies have regained their momentum and are leading the world in growth, according to the latest report Tuesday from a global monitoring group.
Beijing is a city where history and culture are almost tangible. They sprout, grow and bloom in unexpected places, around glittering new skyscrapers, in subway tunnels and in parks. And yet, despite their prevalence, history and culture in Beijing always seem to be teetering on the verge of extinction.
The United States and China have the most important bilateral relationship in the world. Whether they can develop a constructive, cooperative relationship or whether they become each others' greatest nightmare has enormous consequences for each country and for the capacity of the international system to manage regional and global issues.
CNN's Eunice Yoon explores the rich-poor divide in China and its challenges for the country.
China has acknowledged that a number of its websites have fallen victim to attack by hackers following a mass campaign by the Anonymous network.
CNN's Brian Todd reports on the arrests and indictments of six elite hackers from 'Anonymous' and 'Lulzsec'.
If body language is a good gauge of political standing, Li Keqiang is looking very much like China's premier-in-waiting.
George Clooney and John Prendergast discuss their efforts to raise awareness about violence in Sudan.
If all had gone to plan, Sudan and South Sudan would have been neighbors co-existing in a strained but civil peace, aware of a bitter history but resolved to moving on.
A year ago, Bo Xilai was one of the most powerful and talked-about politicians in China. He was a member of China's ruling body, the Politburo, and he seemed to have a shot at gaining a seat on the key decision-making unit within it, the Standing Committee.
China has almost tripled the amount of money foreign institutions can invest in its capital markets, in the latest move aimed at loosening strict capital controls and internationalizing the renminbi.
China's major microblogging sites have suspended comments sections after being "punished for allowing rumors to spread" of a coup attempt in Beijing, state-run media reported Saturday.
CNN's Pauline Chiou talks to Auret Van Heerden, CEO of the Fair Labor Association, about its Foxconn investigation.
The tour of China by Tim Cook this week had all the trappings of an official visit by a popular head of state.
CNN's Stan Grant reports on Chinese government's crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist monks' desperate protests.
A Tibetan protester set himself alight in New Delhi on Monday ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to India this week, police said.
The high-flying Chinese economy appears to be losing some altitude, but experts say the danger of a hard landing still seems remote.
Earlier this week, I got an email from a nephew who lives in Japan.
The return of Chinese property developers to the international bond markets in recent weeks highlights a surge in investor appetite for the sector even as the mainland housing market continues to deteriorate.
The IMF chief praises China for its economic leadership role. CNN's Ramy Inocencio reports.
Travel to Shekou, a port city in Shenzhen, and you will find the stirrings of something unexpected: entrepreneurial capitalism.
China's ancient emperors knew how to live. Shang Xia, the Chinese luxury brand launched recently by Hermès, is trying to resurrect that image of a much older civilisation in which only the best would do.
U.S. stocks closed lower Tuesday as concerns about slowing growth in China overshadowed an upbeat report on the U.S. housing market.
China says it has had "a frank, in-depth talk" with North Korea about the situation on the Korean Peninsula after Pyongyang's announcement of a planned satellite launch provoked an international outcry.
"Those who win become emperors, those who lose become bandits."
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao closed the National People's Congress with his annual news conference. Eunice Yoon reports.
A Standard Chartered banker has been detained by police in China as part of an investigation into a wealthy client who allegedly stole money from a state-owned bank.
Chinese legislators Wednesday approved changes to the country's criminal code that will allow the police to hold certain suspects at secret locations.
The United States, the European Union and Japan are filing a challenge with the World Trade Organization against China's export restrictions on minerals that are crucial for the production of many high-tech devices, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday.
China's Ministry of Public Security busted a cross-province human trafficking network last week, adding 77 children to the more than 24,000 abducted women and children authorities say were set free last year.
Chinese central bank officials have suggested the renminbi is no longer significantly undervalued after six years of gradual appreciation, citing the country's large trade deficit in February.
Two Chinese online video companies agreed to merge Monday in an all-stock deal that will create a major new player in the rapidly growing market.
China shocked the world this weekend when it announced its largest trade deficit in more than two decades.
China's trade deficit hit $31.5bn in February as exports slumped, underscoring concerns about slowing global demand and cooling growth in the world's second-largest economy.
Ignoring international protests, China may have repatriated around 30 North Korean defectors who had been caught while trying to escape their homeland, a South Korean official said Friday.
Inflation in China slowed dramatically in February, as temporary price hikes related to Lunar New Year faded.
Watch out, America. China is steadily catching up in space.
China intends to extend renminbi loans to other Brics nations, in another step towards the internationalisation of its currency.
A Tibetan student who died after setting herself on fire in western China had been experiencing difficulties following a head injury, the official Chinese news agency reported Wednesday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Tuesday called on the United States to tread carefully on issues related to China's core interests in order to build trust and avoid conflicts.
Spring training is finally here and baseball fans are wondering how the Sox will do this year.
U.S. stocks were poised to open lower on Tuesday, as world markets sold off amid economic growth worries in China and Europe.
U.S. stocks recovered quite a bit of lost ground but still finished in the red Monday, following the path of world markets, after China lowered its annual growth target.
U.S. stocks were set to open lower Monday, following the path of world markets, after China lowered its annual growth target.
In the end, Xue Jianwan gave up her short-lived political career after family pressure proved even harder to overcome than official intimidation.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao underlined the Asian giant's regional military ambitions and economic challenges Monday in a speech that opened the annual meeting of the country's legislators.
China said Sunday it plans to increase its defense budget by 11.2%, following similar increases in years past and coming on the heels of a renewed U.S. push in the region.
China plans to boost its official defence budget by 11.2 per cent this year as Beijing is balancing the modernisation of its armed forces against the need to keep military spending in line with economic development.
China is calling on the Syrian government and others involved to "immediately" stop violence, particularly against innocent civilians, and pursue a political solution to the Middle East nation's grim and bloody yearlong crisis.
CNN's Eunice Yoon reports on how China's demand for oil is boosting global prices.
The state of Chinese manufacturing showed modest signs of improvement in February, according to two reports issued Thursday.
A Beijing court has prosecuted more than a dozen people for organizing the illegal sale of 51 human kidneys worth about 10 million yuan (US$1.6 million) in one of China's biggest organ trafficking cases.
Chinese authorities have made dozens of arrests following a deadly clash between Han Chinese and ethnic Uighurs in the country's remote northwest, a U.S.-based Uighur leader said Wednesday.
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