So too are the frequent invocations of the term “rubber-stamp” to describe the NPC, as well as heated complaints about that term from Chinese officials and other supporters of the system.

Three thousand delegates have gathered in Beijing to kick off China's annual rubber-stamp parliamentary meetings ... and stirred ferocious debate across Chinese cyberspace. China's energy sector ...

HANGZHOU, May 21 (Xinhua) -- China Post has issued a set of stamps featuring scenes from the Yue Opera, a traditional Chinese opera originating from east China's Zhejiang Province and one of the most ...

The first zodiac stamp for the Year of the Monkey (1980). [Photo/IC] The year 2016 marks the start of the fourth round of Chinese zodiac stamps. 92-year-old celebrated artist Huang Yongyu ...

BEIJING — The prime-time soap opera on Chinese TV had the usual cast of ... People’s Congress has transcended its traditional “rubber-stamp” tag and become a body whose deliberations ...

These stamps were used mainly for business exchanges and were not issued by China's Postal Ministry. Some cannot actually be regarded as Chinese stamps. The first set of real Chinese stamps came ...

Receiving paper letters may have become a distant memory to most of us, but lovely stamps are still alive in our past and future. 2016 marks the start of the fourth generation of Chinese zodiac ...

BUCHAREST, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- A commemorative sheet of postage stamps celebrating the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, was unveiled on Wednesday at the Central Post Office in ...

By 3 am, some citizens in Jinan, East China's Shandong Province had lined up outside a post office, ready to purchase a set of special stamps commemorating the imminent Chinese zodiac Year of the ...