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  • Soccer player kicks game into touch

    2010-11-03 08:32

    After eight years in China's top First Division A league and four years abroad, Gao, 30, has earned himself a comfortable life that most Chinese white-collar employees could barely afford.

  • Confucius calms Paris woes

    2010-11-02 07:37

    Kong Xianglin, a 75th-generation descendant of Confucius (551-479 BC), wasn't able to enjoy such convenience when he lectured in Paris recently.

  • Botanist plants seeds to preserve the future

    2010-10-29 08:17

    In the eyes of China's leading botanist Shen Maocai, each plant species has the potential to save the world.

  • Trainee takes life at a different clip

    2010-10-28 08:29

    Sporting a hedgehog hairstyle with colored spikes on top, Ma Zengkun does not look much different from the other employees at the busy hair salon where he works in northeast Beijing.

  • Puppeteer hangs on tradition

    2010-10-27 08:27

    Puppet master Lin Wenrong has the world on a string. Yet despite his 50 years of performing experience, he still has to use meditation to calm himself before he steps onto the stage.

  • Recycle the old for a new life

    2010-10-26 08:15

    In Jia Tuying's eyes, garbage is gold. Recycling trash has allowed her and her family to move from their less developed hometown in East China's Shandong province and start a new life in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.

  • Climbed every mountain and he'll cross every sea

    2010-10-24 08:33

    While most successful businessmen are happy to putter around the golf courses, Wang Shi prefers to climb every mountain he finds, hang above the skies in his glider, snowboard down an icy slope or sail the seven seas.

  • Walking on air

    2010-10-24 09:28

    From top gymnast to one of China's richest entrepreneurs, Li Ning has made an elegant transition from sports to sportswear. Yu Tianyu meets this popular role model.

  • Telling others' love tales in her own way

    2010-10-22 07:19

    Dong Liqian, a senior at Tongji University's Film School in Shanghai, is a playwright, director, even video editor, having practiced all these things for TV and drama.

  • Doctor prescribes pain-free treatment

    2010-10-21 07:15

    One of the country's top experts in anesthesiology, an anesthetist used to see the approach to first aid in China as slash and burn.

  • Putting an Asian face on Chilean rescue operation

    2010-10-20 06:41

    Wearing his signature dark blue uniform and red helmet - the same one he wore when he first went to Chile 20 months ago - Hao Heng returned to Shanghai on Tuesday with his mission to help save trapped Chilean miners accomplished.

  • Setting the record

    2010-10-19 07:03

    A 90-minute film showcases the lives of five major characters in Shanghai. It reflects the history and development of The Bund, from its time as a shallow waterfront covered with reeds at the beginning of the 19th century to its status as China's answer to Wall Street.

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