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With only three weeks left before more than half of the country's workforce and students stretch the nation's transportation system to its limits during Spring Festival, Beijing's ticket scalpers are working at a frantic pace.
Record low temperatures and the worst sea ice in 30 years have caused huge losses to sea-farmers and fishermen as well as chaos on the streets of Shandong and Liaoning provinces.
The Ministry of Railways may adopt a name-based train ticket system in the future, depending on travelers' responses to a trial operation at 37 railway stations this Spring Festival.
Migrant workers, who have been shortchanged in the past by companies that fail to pay their wages, will get more protection this year, thanks to a government initiative.
To ease the pressure of huge crowds flooding to get tickets home during next month's Lunar New Year, a 10,000-sq m temporary ticket office with 200 windows - the largest of its kind ever built in China - opened at the north square of the Shanghai Railway Station yesterday.
China recruited about 480,000 talents from foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan last year, according to a leading Chinese official in charge of the affairs.
The remote village of Zhukula in Yunnan was where coffee was first introduced in 1892, and it's still the best brew of Arabica you can find.
Facing an ever-growing appetite for coal production this year, the country's work safety watchdog is mulling over the introduction of a "life-saving capsule" - a mine refuge facility placed deep in the mining shaft.
A courtyard house next to Beihai Park that was once part of a Qing dynasty palace is being advertised online for 420 million yuan and attracting the interest of State-owned enterprises.
| Name | Value | Change | Time |
| Shanghai | 2,794.27 | -0.58% | Thur |
| Shenzhen | 12,392.93 | -0.26% | Thur |
| HSI | 22,530.18 | +0.06% | Thur |
| NIKKEI | 10,071.14 | -0.11% | Thur |
| Dow | 12,719.49 | +0.74% | Thur |
| Nasdaq | 2,872.66 | +1.36% | Thur |