Society

On September 17th, east 3rd ring road of Beijing became "parking lot".  - Nongzhan Section.

Beijing Government announced on Thursday (28th Nov. 2013) that the city will further reduce the number of new car license plates in the lottery system and encourage the use of new-energy vehicles in the next four years in a move to reduce traffic gridlock and ease air pollution.

The collapse of a factory building's roof in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province buried nine people on Monday afternoon, local authorities said.

Officials with the emergency response office of Mudanjiang city said the accident, which happened at 1:10 pm in the city's Aiming district, was probably caused by blizzards.

The majority of China's official vehicles are to be removed from use as part of government moves to reduce extravagance and promote austerity, according to a report in Beijing News.

There are more than 2 million official vehicles in the country and the withdrawal of the majority of these could mean savings of up to 100 billion yuan ($16.40 billion), according to experts quoted in the article.

At least 35 people were killed after a leaking pipeline caught fire and exploded on Friday morning in the coastal city of Qingdao, in east China's Shandong Province, local authorities said.