More than 23,820 tourists took bus trips during the Dragon Boat Festival Holiday from the Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Center, officials said yesterday. Over the past two weeks, short-term trips to scenic spots have been popular, with nearly half choosi

A strong earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale has rocked Wenchuan in Sichuan province, some 92km northwest of Chengdu. The earthquake took place at 14:28 Beijing Time and tremors were felt as far as Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing. The quake, wh

China has begun three days of mourning from May 19th to May 21st for victims of the Sichuan earthquake, which has left more than 70,000 people dead, buried under rubble or missing. The silence, the first time China has marked an occasion like this fo

I express heartfelt thanks to the foreign governments and international friends, Mr Hu was quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency. Offers of help in the relief effort from home and abroad have now surpassed $860m (£440m), Chinese offic

Chinese aid workers are struggling to find shelter for millions who lost their homes. Foreign medical teams have started arriving in the area. Tens of thousands more are still missing, and hopes are fading of finding many people still alive. China

Schools slowly opened Wednesday in some of China's newly formed tent cities, where the government is struggling to shelter many of the 5 million people left homeless in last week's earthquake. The camps, like one at the base of Qianfo Mountain in th