Hebei

The world's longest pedestrian glass bridge will be opened in Hebei province in eastern China on Dec. 24, China Daily News reported on Friday.

A total of 110 tombs dating back more than 2,000 years have been discovered in northern China’s Hebei province.
The tombs were used to bury the remains of children, and archeologists estimate there might be 500 to 700 more such tombs in the surrounding area.

Over 100 shopkeepers at a popular Beijing market held a rare street protest on June 23 against what they call unreasonable eviction as the Chinese capital seeks to curb population growth.

The crowd gathered outside the entrance of the Beijing Zoo wholesale market in the west of the city, punching their fists in the air and shouting, "Return our money!"

TANGSHAN - After meeting with the governor of China's Hebei province, Xu Qin, in Tangshan on Tuesday, Serbian PM and President-elect Aleksandar Vucic said they had discussed various forms of cooperation.

Vucic said that the province, which has a population of 74 million, had a GDP of 500 billion dollars - many times more than Serbia.

Heavy smog in northern China yesterday caused hundreds of flights to be cancelled and highways to shut, disrupting the first day of the new year holiday. 

Large parts of the north were hit by hazardous smog in mid-December, leading authorities to order hundreds of factories to close and to restrict motorists to cut emissions. 

China's smoggiest city closed schools Dec. 21 as much of the country suffered its sixth day under an oppressive haze, sparking public anger about the slow response to the threat to children's health.

Since Dec. 16, a choking miasma has covered a large swathe of northeastern China, leaving more than 460 million gasping for breath.

Beijing is to raise the thresholds for issuing its highest air pollution warnings, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Feb. 22, two months after acrid smog triggered the city's first ever "red alerts." 

China warned residents across a large part of its north on Dec. 18 to prepare for a wave of choking smog arriving over the weekend, the worst of which is expected over Beijing, prompting the capital to issue its second ever "red alert."

BELGRADE - A delegation of businessmen from the Chinese province of Hebei told representatives of the Serbia's Privatization Agency Friday that they were interested in investing in companies in Serbia's food industry and agriculture and agricultural technology sector.

China and Serbia "confirm friendship through economy"

BELGRADE -- Political friendship of Serbia and China "is confirmed through increasingly intensive economic cooperation," Aleksandar Vucic and Li Manchang have agreed.

The Serbian prime minister and the Chinese ambassador to Serbia met in Belgrade on Monday.