Scientists are looking to the ground in their efforts to fight deadly soil pollution in China.For more than a decade the phytoremediation system which uses plants to help absorb pollutants has become a major part of clean-up programmes across the world.By 1998, some 400 natural plants able to absorb...

Management of housing provident funds should be tightened to ensure their healthy development, says an article on the website of Xinhua News Agency. An excerpt follows:Like pension funds, housing provident funds are closely related to almost every household's interest.That is because each employee h...