Public activities on Beijing's streets always gather a crowd. In the picture above, a man teaches a boy to keep goal in 1981. The crowd around them reflects the widespread enthusiasm for soccer that existed then. An interest in soccer still thrives, but many rival sports have taken root in China as a result of the reform and opening-up process. The photo on the right, taken in 2005 in Beijing's Wangfujing area, shows a group of young people fascinated by a dis play of skateboarding, a popular import from California.
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2015 to be marked by ongoing adjustments around the globe, vice-minister says
China's outbound investments will soon exceed inward foreign direct investment, as its companies seek opportunities in mature markets and developing ones on new trading routes, a senior official said on Friday.
China and the United States will enhance law enforcement cooperation on the application of law and evidence exchanges to nab Chinese corrupt officials who are still at large in the US, the Ministry of Public Security announced on Friday.
Premier Li Keqiang will call for an "objective" and reasoned understanding of the Chinese economy from the international community in a speech to be delivered at the 45th annual World Economic Forum meeting next week, a leading official said on Friday.
Liu Zheng, deputy head of the People's Liberation Army's General Logistics Department, is under investigation for suspected legal violations, the PLA said on Thursday.
Vets are racing to treat a 5-year-old panda diagnosed with canine distemper at the Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Rescue and Breeding Research Center.
If you live in Beijing and have bought a car or house in recent years, you should have already fallen prey to increasingly annoying and sophisticated spam text messages that dog you day and night.
Item from Jan 16, 1988, in China Daily: A record 40 million bicycles were produced last year in China.
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