For the past 120 years, Royal Philips Electronics has had a positive impact on millions of lives around the world, so it was no surprise for people around the globe to greet the company's 120th anniversary on May 15.
With China's rapid development and changing social values, young people's needs for sexual and reproductive health information and services are growing as behaviors change.
It took Sanya 25 years of hard work to build itself into a world-class tourist resort; no small feat when people consider that it was nothing more than a poor fishing village, according to Jiang Sixian, vice-governor of Hainan province and Party secretary of Sanya city.
A recently announced duty-free entitlement brought an influx of tourists to Sanya in April and May, a normally dull part of the tourist business.
Sanya, known in history as Yazhou (Cliff state), is China's southernmost city and lies on the South China Sea coast.
In 1983, Zhen Zhicheng, then 6 years old, was free as a bird in the steep mountains of Hubei province, where his parents, both Beijing natives, had been living since 1970 alongside tens of thousands mobilized from around China to work at the No 2 Automobile Plant in the small town of Shiyan.
The late American anthropologist Clifford Geertz once described a result of "agricultural involution", which was caused by internal pressures due to population growth, as increasing labor intensity in the paddy fields. China's agriculture faced the same problem, and its farmers were bound to the farmland for thousands of years.
The sheer scale and radical nature of transformations in China in the past century suggest that very few could claim not to be migrants of one sort or another.
Pan Yingjie, the president of Shanghai Ocean University, can never forget the summer of 1977 when an examination changed his life. It was not the easiest of times for the 27-year-old Pan then as life seemed bleak after the daily toil at a rural fertilizer plant in Anhui province that was not only sapping his energy, but proving a health issue for his pregnant wife.
English learning has changed over the years in China. I taught English first at Lanzhou University in 1990-1991 and 1992-1993. I have also taught English at Beijing International Studies University from September 2001 onward.
Driven by rapid urbanization and government efforts to stimulate domestic demand, China's smaller cities are emerging as a powerhouse for international and domestic retailers.
I was one of the first few that appeared for the gaokao, or the college entrance exam, in 1977, when it was resumed after the "cultural revolution" (1966-1976). I was 30 then. Nine years of hard labor in rural environs till then had made me, a Beijing native, give up hope of ever returning to a campus, let alone think of being one of the veterans of China Daily.
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