The 6th Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche, Jamyang Choephel Jampa Gyaltsen, was formally enthroned at Gangchen Monastery in Sakya County, Xizang Autonomous Region, on Tuesday.

An infrared camera has captured a previously unrecorded female Amur tiger with an unusually short tail in the Dongning section of Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, authorities said Monday.

The first batch of exhibits for the ninth China International Import Expo cleared customs in Shanghai on Monday, marking the start of exhibit arrivals for the expo, which runs Nov. 5-10.

Shanghai was named one of the first winners of the World Intellectual Property Organization's City of Innovation award, the organization announced Monday in Geneva.

Poyang Lake in eastern China's Jiangxi province is home to 542 Yangtze finless porpoises, nearly 40% of the country's total and the highest density of the species in the Yangtze River basin, a local official said Monday.