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.
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.
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.
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.
Onlookers could be forgiven for thinking that Ni Xinhong and Shen Huijuan are a married couple.
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.
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.
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.
Zhao Haiming was given a choice: a job and an opportunity to wipe the slate clean, or a prison term.
Take a stroll around one of Beijing's big shopping malls, especially those in the "stand-alone' or relatively "high-end" brackets, and unless you're a seasoned shopper, you may be surprised by the level of privacy available.
By banking on the growing domestic popularity of Chinese designers, overseas-based department and multi-brand stores are building a new platform for local talents who, despite their rising fame, are still struggling to expand their businesses.
Party plenum poised to take a key step in modern Chinese history, Tang Yue reports.
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