Helen Fitzwilliam finds the topic of Chinese workers in World War I like a mythical story, similar to the journey of the Greek king Odysseus in Homer's heroic poems.
When he was 14 years old, Chen Hanfeng discovered that everything he had been told about his father was untrue. "It was hot summer day in 1958. My mother came to my school, hugged me, and said, 'Your father is dead. He's been dead for two years'.
On World AIDS Day last year, the Shaanxi Provincial Communist Youth League organized volunteer activities to help raise awareness and prevention of the disease. The tradition on Dec 1 across the world included giving out free condoms to passers-by in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province.
On a Saturday morning in Beijing's Wangfujing Street, the Foreign Language Bookstore sported a banner to promote its "big summer exhibition of imported books".
For years, the Chinese market has been importing more books than exporting them.
More than 100 pieces of porcelain enclosed in saggers - boxlike containers made from fire clay - were being fired in a 286-year-old wood kiln.
The cases in Jingdezhen's exhibition hall are full of delicate porcelain pieces, all apparently from ancient royal collections. Appearances are misleading, however, because every piece is of modern manufacture.
Every third month, A Yu (not her real name) an ethnic Chinese from Myanmar who has full-blown AIDS, drives for 45 minutes to visit a clinic in Ruili, Yunnan province, where she replenishes her supply of medicine and undergoes medical checkups.
Entrepreneurs in the coastal city of Qingdao, Shandong province, are contemplating a boost to their businesses after the launch of China's newest development zone, the Qingdao West Coast New Area.
The operators of the Qingdao West Coast New Area have pledged that simplified administrative procedures will facilitate relations between investors, entrepreneurs and government departments.
The Qingdao Sino-German Ecopark, the only joint project between the Chinese and German governments, will strive to promote cutting-edge, environmentally friendly technology for the marine industries, its managers said.
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