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Experts assess 'milestone' reform blueprint

[2013-11-20 06:41]

Experts are still attempting to evaluate the potential impact of China's blueprint for reform one week after a key Party meeting to discuss the nation's future.

Timeline of the draft

[2013-11-20 06:41]

Following the election of the new leadership, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decides that the Third Plenary Session will deal with comprehensive reform and tackle a number of important decisions. A drafting group of around 60 members headed by President Xi Jinping, also General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, is established by the Political Bureau. It's the first time since 2000 that the Party's top leader has led the drafting of a document to be tabled at a plenary session.

Days are numbered for ancient villages

[2013-11-19 07:00]

As part of humankind's historical heritage, traditional villages have high value in terms of research, architectural techniques and cultural continuity.

Renovation and rebirth

[2013-11-19 07:00]

Liu Shuanzhu, 57, has been Party chief of Xiwenxing village in Qinshui county, Shanxi province, for more than two decades; in his own words he has dreamed of helping the villagers become rich.

The time-traveler's life

[2013-11-19 07:00]

Xue Xiuxian was born and raised in the rural suburbs of Gaoping city in Shanxi province. At one time, the 38-year-old was so bored with village life that she swore to settle down in the big city when she married, but all that changed when she met the man who would later become her husband. When Xue married in 1999, she moved all her belongings from her home village of Qincheng to nearby Lianghu village.

A historic home from home

[2013-11-19 07:00]

Editor's note: Zheng Ziru was once a Peking opera singer, but is now a free stage director. She has a great passion for Chinese tradition, history, and, especially, architecture. After 10 years of searching, she finally found an old house in Yaoziyu, a fortress village built more than 400 years ago at the foot of Erdaoguan Great Wall in the Huairou district of suburban Beijing. She has made the village her second home in the capital.

The way of kindness

[2013-11-18 06:59]

Clinging to a mountainside, the monastery painted dark red and golden yellow was clearly visible among a dense cluster of ethnic houses. The sound of repeated hand claps came from the yard of a pentagon-shaped wooden building as the debating class began, as it always does, at 2:30 pm at Dondrup Ling Monastery, a Buddhist foundation, in Deqen county in northwestern Yunnan province.

Seniors share love without marriage

[2013-11-15 06:38]

Onlookers could be forgiven for thinking that Ni Xinhong and Shen Huijuan are a married couple.

Social networking sites prove the thief of time

[2013-11-14 07:28]

After yet another late night spent browsing the Internet, Tracy Zheng, a 30-year-old PhD student at Nanjing University, swore to stop wasting time she could hardly spare.

Seeing red sparks interaction

[2013-11-14 07:28]

Anger is the most-easily transmitted emotion on micro blogs in China, according to research conducted by researchers with the Group of Advanced Network Analysis at the State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment of Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics.

All-round reform

[2013-11-13 08:19]

Much has come from the third plenum regarding the management of State-owned assets, particularly State-owned enterprises. The reforms are not going to wipe SOEs out of existence, however.

A second opportunity

[2013-11-12 07:22]

Zhao Haiming was given a choice: a job and an opportunity to wipe the slate clean, or a prison term.

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