Construction on the Guangzhou-Foshan West Intercity Railway reached a major milestone Tuesday as crews began laying continuous long rails, moving the project into its track installation phase following the completion of all tunneling and bridge structures.

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.