There were wreaths and elegiac couplets. There were leaders, and students and former colleagues. And there were thousands of tearful eyes and muffled sobs.

A high-speed ferry travelling from Hong Kong to the Southern Chinese city of Guangzhou collided with another ship on Thursday, killing two foreign passengers, a marine official said.

The mainland would spare no effort in its continued support for Taiwan to ward off the impact of the global economic downturn, a senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Tuesday.

China's second largest freshwater lake, Dongting, has shrunk in area by almost two thirds in just a month, a local meteorologist said Wednesday.

A teenage boy sat beside his father in their family car racing a remote controlled vehicle on the expressway near Tangshan, Hebei province, on Tuesday.

After topping this year's Hurun rich list, Wang Chuanfu, head of Nanjing-based car manufacture BYD Co Ltd, is again recognized as China's richest by Forbes Magazine.