Your daily briefing on China - Xinhua

China's manned submersible Jiaolong surfaces after a dive in the Mariana Trench on May 30, 2017. Jiaolong dived to 6,699 meters during Tuesday's mission in the Mariana Trench. (Xinhua/Liu Shiping)

ON BOARD SHIP XIANGYANGHONG 09 -- China's manned submersible Jiaolong descended to 6,699 meters in the Mariana Trench on Tuesday, recording images of two swimming snailfishes.

Tuesday's mission was Jiaolong's fourth dive in the trench this year.

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BEIJING -- Tourism was bouyant for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, with excursions to suburban areas being the most popular choice for Chinese travelers, said the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA).

On Monday, the second day of the three-day holiday, 35.8 million trips were made by tourists, and the domestic tourism sector raked in a combined business revenue of 14.7 billion yuan (about 2.1 billion U.S. dollars), the CNTA said Monday in a statement.

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BEIJING -- China has held 4,018 officials accountable for poor environmental protection efforts during the latest round of inspections, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said Tuesday.

The central government just wrapped up its month-long third round of inspections to review local government work on environmental protection, the ministry said.

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BEIJING -- The property market in northern China's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region stabilized in April after authorities implemented a string of measures to contain price hikes, according to an official survey released Monday.

In Beijing, new residential house prices rose 0.2 percent month on month in April, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

In April, the new residential house prices in Beijing saw a year-on-year growth of 17.4 percent.

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