Chinese people have explored most places on Earth, from the arctic icecaps to Amazonian rainforests and the valleys of the Himalaya. Now, it seems, they want to plant a footprint much further afield - on Mars, to be exact.
If I got picked, I would leave my family and spend the rest of my life on Mars.
Cheng Deguang often spends half his day sitting on the banks of the river that connects his village to the city of Jinan in Shandong province. Sometimes, Cheng stares at the water for hours, immobile as a statue. When the temperature begins to fall, he moves inside his house about 1 km from the riverbank.
In March, in a village in Foshan, Guangdong province, thieves broke into 12 deserted houses, stealing everything they could carry. One 70-year-old villager named Xian lost 3,000 yuan ($488) in savings he had left in his old house. Luckily, no one was hurt because the elderly residents had been moved into new houses earlier in the year. However, as many of them were unsure about the new accommodation, they left possessions and caches of valuables and cash in their former homes.
On Saturday afternoon, an unsuspecting Wang Liwei was surrounded by 12 middle-aged women, mostly from Shanghai, in search of husbands for their daughters. Wang was in the middle of Shanghai's biggest matchmaking party, held in the city's Qingbu district.
With a top-end camera hanging from his shoulder, Gao Yongxiang was hunting through IFC, a landmark shopping mall located in the center of Shanghai's financial district. Although he appeared lost in thought, Gao was tracking the clusters of young women zigzagging from Bally to Valentino.
Italy is famous for many things - pasta, fine wines, stylish clothing, stunning architecture and stylish clothing being just a few.
Faith restored. There are differences, not all stark, between the landmasses of China and Europe but there is much in common, too.
Situated in Xiuwen county, the Wang Yangming Cultural Park covering an area of 38,860 square meters, has been listed as one of the highest ranked projects in the county's cultural construction plan during the next five years.
Having closely monitored the performance of a financial management company for more than four years, Hou Yanjie finally decided to buy a trust product recommended by an account manager she's familiar with. The product requires investment of at least 1 million yuan ($163,000), and the expected annual rate of return is around 9.5 percent.
Although almost 20 years have passed, Zhang Yun still remembers the first shares she bought. The 62-year-old retired government worker from Chengdu, Sichuan province, started buying shares in the 1990s just as State-owned companies in the province started to go public.
Asurvey conducted by HSBC Bank (China) Co in March showed that Chinese consumers have a strong desire to embrace a global vision. Among the more than 1,000 people surveyed in eight cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, 80 percent anticipated that their lifestyles will become more internationalized and their connections with the outside world will be strengthened through overseas education, travel, financial management services and investment.
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