Beijing is not only the national capital but also an innovation hub. It's a city where ancient history and futuristic technology collide. British journalist Owen Fishwick rides in a self-driving vehicle and visits a "sleeper city" on the capital's fringe.
Visit Maotai town, which produces the country’s most-celebrated liquor, and see how big data is being used to revolutionize agriculture in Guizhou. The mountainous province has long been one of the country’s poorest but is today turning its geological disadvantages into advantages in surprising ways.
Journalist Erik Nilsson becomes a bamboo-pole porter in infamously hilly Chongqing and hops on hogs with an elderly biker group. He also jumps aboard cruise and cargo ships to discover how the Three Gorges Dam in picturesque Yichang connects the country.
Wuhan's Optics Valley has become a magnet for web celebs. See how this internationally leading high-tech zone built on wasteland three decades ago has become a hub for IT, biomedicine and much more. Journalist Erik Nilsson uses joysticks to drive a tiny gastroscopy robot remotely and sings (badly) with an online star.
Directed by Zhang Yimou, the mass-choreographed outdoor show, Return to the Three Gorges, hit the stage on the Yangtze River on Dec 15 in Fengjie County, Southwest China’s Chongqing.
Need a life-size robotic saxophone-playing Santa? Or a dozen? Then, Yiwu is the place for you. If you can buy it anywhere in the world, you can buy it in “the world’s supermarket”. Journalist Erik Nilsson also visits “Heaven on Earth”, as Hangzhou is known, to discover how the scenic city is advancing cross-border ecommerce.
Train K7039 carries about 1,000 passengers from Harbin, capital city of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, to Mohe, China's northernmost city, on a daily basis.
From college days to retirement, a couple reflects through romantic letters on their life and capture the changes that have happened in the past four decades.
Journalist Erik Nilsson joins a fishing crew to haul up nets of the "three whites" and discuss how the pollution that left millions without water in Wuxi around 2007 pushed the government to guide development toward such innovative sectors as the internet of things.
"To me, reform and opening up means opening up people's mind and persevering as an entrepreneur," Hua Yongliang, who opened the first online store in Peixie, a village in southeast China's Fujian Province, told Beijing Review.
Greg paints a horse's tail in traditional Chinese style to tell the tale of how economic liberalization led to increased efficiency. He gets traditional medical treatment and realizes how the Pearl River's currents are the flow of the future.
Visit a gaming cafe with massage chairs, meet China’s future programmers and learn about how the country is revolutionizing telecommunications. See how China is becoming an IT leader.
See how Guangzhou is advancing intelligent beer manufacturing. Watch Greg taste test its beers and explore how the reform and opening-up has transformed the city.
A Chinese rescue diver who rescued three people from a sunken cargo ship has received the 2018 International Maritime Organization Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea.
