Witnessing the Long March-3B rocket blast off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center and seeing the scientists and technicians hugging each other was a truly emotional moment.
The Chang'e-3 lunar probe comprises a lander and a moon rover. The rover was named Yutu, "Jade Rabbit", via an online poll. In ancient folklore, Chang'e was a moon goddess who swallowed immortality pills and then flew from the earth to the moon. Yutu was a pet rabbit that kept the goddess company in her cold, lonely lunar palace.
If you mention air pollution in Baiyin, the locals are always happy to relate a famous local story. In the 1990s, a man spent his entire month's salary on a Phoenix bike, one of the most popular brands in China at the time. After riding his new pride and joy to work, the man locked his bike and left it outside the factory. A little later, a rainstorm hit the area. At the end of his shift, when the man went to fetch his new bike, he was unable to find it because the high acid content in the rain had dissolved the paint on the frame, leaving his new bike looking as pitted and worn as all the others in the rack.
The process of upgrading Gansu's heavy industry started in the 1990s. The unproductive and heavily polluting metals industry was slimmed down, resulting in many job losses. Many workers aged 45 or older found themselves virtually unemployable.
Flora Anade was one of the first to receive help from the Peace Ark when the Chinese hospital ship arrived in the typhoon-ravaged Philippine city of Tacloban on Sunday on its disaster-relief mission. When Super Typhoon Haiyan hit her house on Nov 8, Anade crouched down and buried her head in her hands as protection from the collapsing ceiling.
Having lived aboard the Peace Ark for a couple of months off and on, I have started thinking of it as home.
Early in November, Chen Ping arrived in Beijing on what was likely to be her last trip to the capital.
The Chinese leadership has listed combating the abuse of power as a priority of its reforms.
Grassroots political activity came to the fore at the recent Third Plenum, when the body's members agreed to add the promotion of democratic politics in China's rural areas to the reform agenda.
Editor's note: Chen Tao is a professor with the social work research center of the China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing.
Mark Yoma, 42, squatted beside a small stack of burning garbage in a deserted street in Tacloban, capital of the Philippine province of Leyte.
This is my second voyage on the Peace Ark. When I left after about two-thirds of the hospital ship's 118-day medical services voyage, I didn't expect to be back on board so soon.
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