A cultivator checks the status of coffee trees at an orchard in Pu'er, Yunnan province.[Photo provided to CHINA DAILY] In the 1990s, Yang Qiong took a bold step in Ning'er county in Pu'er, southwestern Yunnan province, by leasing nearly 200 hectares of land from local villagers to establish a cof...
A staff member encourages a resident during a group exercise session at an elderly care center in Hutubi county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Saturday.TAO WEIMINGFOR CHINA DAILY China plans to improve policies to bolster both the public and the private elderly care sectors, create diverse...
Graduating students at a university in Zhengzhou, Henan province, set up stalls on campus to sell their various secondhand items last month. CHINA DAILY From pre-loved clothing and handbags to furniture and books, the trade in secondhand merchandise is growing rapidly in China — delivering not on...
Over the past 30 years, Huang Zhixiao has traveled back and forth between China and Italy nearly 300 times. As a member of the overseas Chinese community, he's witnessed China's transformation from a backward developing country to the world's second-largest economy, and how it has become "a big coun...
August Hagen left is working on a farm in Xuling village, Zhejiang province, on Nov 5, 2023. CHINA DAILY Last autumn and again this spring, I went to visit a small locale, Xuling village, in the hills of Zhejiang province. While I was staying there, I got to meet some members of a new community t...
A soccer tournament featuring matches mainly between industrial workers from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has not only stirred up passion for the sport but also helped boost local consumption, along with cultural and tourism development, the organizers said. On Friday night, which...
Patients receive sanfu moxibustion patches at Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Monday.FANG FEIFOR CHINA DAILY As hospitals have begun providing a variety of sanfu moxibustion services — a traditional Chinese medicine treatment applied during the hottest days of summer to boost ...
Eternal beauty Rituals of Repetition: Portals to Eternity, at the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts until Aug 25, features the work of four South Korean artists, whose creative methods have refreshed the look of ceramic, paper and ink, three traditional materials widely used in East ...
Legendary pianist Martha Argerich will play two concerts on Nov 4 and 5.[Photo provided to China Daily] From renowned pianists Martha Argerich and Krystian Zimerman to Grammy award-winning jazz musician Herbie Hancock and Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, the Shanghai Oriental Art Center announce...
As the tour bus zigzagged its way up the hill, the valley below was shrouded in mist. It was around 10 am, but the light rain had dabbed just the right coat of fog to the windows, and the haze made the world appear supremely beautiful, just like the landscape we were about to marvel at. We were a ...
ALESUND, Norway — In 1963, French geologist Jean Corbel established a small hut near Ny-Alesund, sparking modern research in the high Arctic of the Svalbard Islands in Norway. Since then, the former mining town has evolved into a global center for science, attracting countries like China to its rese...
A baby boy born prematurely at just 26 weeks and weighing only 870 grams has defied the odds after a grueling 80-day battle for survival at the Southwest Hospital of Army Medical University in Chongqing. Nicknamed "Xiaotuanzi" or "little rice ball", the infant faced a multitude of life-threatening ...
Two children visit the Jin Shangjing History Museum in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. [PhotoXinhua] HARBIN — At the Jin Shangjing History Museum in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, a gleaming, thumb-sized silver coin attracts curious visitors. The coin, shaped like a double-bladed axe, h...
Liu Ailun first from left folds paper with children at Hands of Hope in Vientiane, Laos, on Sept 5, 2021.[Photo provided to China Daily] One day in September 2020, Liu Ailun met two little girls in Laos. They were sitting in a tuk-tuk, a common form of public transportation in Southeastern Asia. ...
University students and young musicians recite classical and modern Chinese literary works and sing songs at Xiamen University in Fujian province on June 29.[Photo provided to China Daily] The families of Taiwan writers Yu Guangzhong 1928-2017 and Sanmao 1943-91, born as Chen Maoping and also kno...