Society
27.07.2017
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The Forest Flyers
“You have no idea what a forest fire really looks like until you see one in person,” declares Zhang Yinghai, command pilot and vice director of the aviation detachment of the forest fire services d...
China’s Modern Community Near Chaohu Lake
Established in late 2012, the Binhu Century Community in Hefei, capital city of Anhui Province, has set an example for the reform of China’s community system by innovating the g...
18.07.2017
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A River of Return
Not long ago, the National Bureau of Statistics of China released Report on the Monitoring Survey of Migrant Workers 2016 (hereinafter referred to as Report), showing that in 20...
12.07.2017
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Online Celebrities: Clicking Careers
A Rising Phenomenon Papi Jiang, a 30-year-old living in Beijing, is a phenomenally popular online celebrity. Born Jiang Yilei, Papi Jiang began uploading short, funny and origin...
19.06.2017
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Hangzhou: QR City
Hangzhou, capital of the southeastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, has newly become famous as a “mobile payment city” after a news report that sounded a little funny. On March ...
03.05.2017
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14.02.2017
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Universal Two-Child Policy: Smiles and New Worries
On January 1, 2016, China officially abandoned the one-child policy, which had been in place in the country for more than three decades, in favor of a universal “two-child” era, allowing all married couples to have two children.
Cheers to Tourism
In the late 1980s, I visited a Western country for the first time, and still recall being struck by the cafes and bars along the streets and admiring the people spending their d...
14.02.2017
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Cuban Inspiration
I took a five-hour flight between Peru and Havana, Cuba to accomplish my long-held dream of visiting the famous Caribbean socialist country.
01.01.2017
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Tug-of-War
Lanzhou hand-pulled beef noodles, named after their origin city in Gansu Province, are representative of northern China’s Muslim cuisine. Nowadays, those noodles are found not o...
01.12.2016
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Vague and Complicated Middle Class
As defined by Credit Suisse’s Global Wealth Report in 2016, those who annually earn US$28,000 to 280,000 in China are considered “middle class,” of which China tallies 109 million.
01.12.2016
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4022
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