Fourth satellite conference opens in Wuhan

The fourth China Satellite Navigation Conference opened today in Wuhan, Hubei province, and will run until May 17.

Luxury brands up service level as competition grows

In response to increasingly fierce competition in China's luxury car market, manufacturers have increased investment in dealer training to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Q1 profits, Hongqi revival drive rally of FAW stock

The stock price of FAW Car Co Ltd nearly doubled in the past month, which was attributed to a profitable first quarter and the revival of the Hongqi brand.

New Arrival

All-new Roewe 550

Short Torque

Exports grow in first four months

Japanese marques showing signs of comeback

New products drive up sales in wake of Diaoyu fallout

Rising from rubble

Five years on from one of the world's most destructive earthquakes - which claimed up to 90,000 lives and devastated vast swaths of Sichuan province - we revisit the disaster zone to follow its road from ruin to recovery. And after the April 20 quake in Ya'an, we find out what lessons learned from five years earlier have helped mitigate the latest disaster.

From the editor

The nation plunged into mourning five years ago when devastation struck Sichuan. Up to 90,000 lives were lost and hundreds of thousands of buildings collapsed - upending life across vast swaths of the province.

Wenchuan earthquake milestones

Museums educate, commemorate

Relics from the 2008 earthquake are exhibited throughout the disaster zone to remember the past and prepare for the future.

Midwife of new life

Wang Fang delivers hope's rebirth. The director of the family planning station in Leigu town in Beichuan county helps women who want to become pregnant after losing their children in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Doctor Wang guides them past the psychological and physical barriers that make having another child difficult.

2 birthdays for joy and sorrow

I have two birthdays - one is the date celebrating my birth, and the other is May 12, in remembrance of the day I didn't die in the deadly magnitude-8 earthquake that devastated Sichuan province in 2008.