Knight at the museum

Wu Yongqi, curator of the Qinshihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, is often called the "guard of the Qin terracotta warriors".

Saving lives in a desert hospital built on sand

Jiang Shuqing, 50, spends most of her weekends attending medical seminars to catch up with the technological developments she missed during her three years at a medical aid mission in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

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How to make a mooncake

1. Prepare stuffing: Traditional ingredients of Cantonese-style mooncake include five kinds of kernel - pine cone, sesame, walnut meat, melon seed and almond. Alternatively, red beans are a good option.

Not all the festivities follow a Straits path to home

Lin Fengcheng has no special plan for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Unlike other Taiwan businessmen, who are busy arranging air-tickets back home for family reunions, the Beijing-based 34-year-old has buried himself in work. He had no idea of the actual date of the festival.

Let them eat cake

Xie Daoyun feels very proud about making China's biggest ever mooncake. Last month, the Anhui native, along with nine other master mooncake-makers, set the new record at the First China Food Bakery Festival in Shenyang, the capital of Northeast China's Liaoning Province.

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Influencing soldiers and CEOs

Sun Tzu: The Art of War is the earliest and most valuable Chinese treatise on military science, dating from the late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). The book is a condensation of the experience of warfare in that era, with the emphasis on precautionary and intelligence strategies.

Getting there

It's convenient to get to Linyi, of Shandong Province, either by plane or by train from major cities. The city is about a four-hour ride from Jinan, capital of Shandong. Located in southern part of the province, Linyi is becoming known as a tourist destination with its beautiful landscapes and wealth of cultural heritage.

War and pieces

More than 7,500 bamboo slips unearthed in an ancient tomb at the foot of the Yinque Mountain have made the city of Linyi, in East China's Shandong Province, a magnet for archaeologists and tourists.

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Eat junk, feel rubbish

LONDON: Many of us believe that taking exercise gives us a license to eat fattening foods with no adverse effects. Surely is that the whole point of physical exertion? Not so, say the experts. Any effective exercise habit must be supported by the right food.