[News: Former US Secretary of State #Kissinger passed away] Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who won the Nobel Peace Prize, passed away at his home in Connecticut on Wednesday (November 30) at the age of 100.

Little New Year (Chinese: Xiaonian), usually a week before the lunar New Year, falls on Jan 17 this year. It is also known as the Festival of the Kitchen God, the deity who oversees the moral character of each household.

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's foreign trade maintained upward momentum in the first seven months of the year. Both exports and imports registered double-digit growth, customs data showed Saturday.The country's total imports and exports expanded 24.5 percent year on year to 21.34 trillion yuan