China's rising sea levels hit a record high in 2012 due to global warming and land subsidence, threatening millions of coastal residents, reports China Daily.
Beijing, China (CNN) -- More than a month after a raging fire killed 58 residents of an apartment building in Shanghai, China's largest metropolis, nagging questions remain: Exactly what caused it?
Residents of Russia's far east fear that China is planning to plunder their oil and timber and perhaps even to colonise their empty spaces.
Photos posted online by semi-official China News Service showed hundreds of residents gathered in the streets after the quake, some clothed in pajamas or wrapped in bedding.
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South China Morning Post features photos of Beijing residents' "crazy, quick fixes" for toxic air, such as canned air.
By the end of September, Shanghai had a population of 23.7 million, with roughly 14 million registered residents and 9.7 million migrants from other parts of China.
Nonetheless, China has hundreds of millions of low-income residents subsisting on low-tech agriculture.
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China has five of the world's 10 most polluted cities, and on an average day in China's major cities, 75 percent of the residents are breathing unclean air.
But if the public debt and contingent liabilities remain majority owned by domestic residents, then China is more likely to experience growth stagnation like Japan instead of an outright debt crisis.
There is widespread anger in China over corruption and the practice of seizing land and clearing out the residents to develop it for a profit.
In the past decade, China made improvements to the daily conditions of 65.3 million urban residents without shelter, while India lifted 59.7 million citizens out of poor housing.
Police in southern China say they have arrested 25 people after clashes between residents and security forces near the city of Guangzhou.
I, like many long-term American residents of Hong Kong, have not seen any deterioration of our freedoms in the five years since the handover to China.
Lardy and others argue that one way to increase consumption in China is to extend the social safety net to include rural residents, who now have to pay most of the costs of education, health, and retirement.
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