Editor's Note: This is the sixth in a series of special reports about the experiences and influence of foreigners who either lived or served in China between 1937 and 1945.
Wang Hao director of the Weifang Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office
After baking nang, a kind of crusty pancake, for her husband and children early in the morning, Guliayisham Memet puts on a brightly colored silk dress and rides her motorcycle to the carpet factory 3 kilometers away from where she lives, a small village in Toksun county in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
An 18-year-old Beijing man who spiked beverage bottles with poison in an attempt to get rid of his grandmother, but killed a 5-year-old boy instead, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Mainland courts handled nearly nine times as many cases involving Taiwan residents in 2014 as they did six years ago thanks to a cross-Straits agreement on mutual judicial cooperation, China's top court said on Tuesday.
Chinese people are eating more, thanks to their deeper pockets, making them slightly taller but also a lot fatter, according to a National Health and Family Planning Commission report released on Tuesday.
A top health official on Tuesday said health authorities at various levels in China should improve their emergency medical relief systems to cover all those in need.
Land reclamation on some islands and reefs of the Nansha Islands has been completed as planned, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Beijing and Shanghai will offer tax refunds on purchases made by overseas visitors starting on Wednesday, kicking off a program to bolster tourism and sales of some items popular with foreign visitors, such as souvenirs, silk, porcelain and traditional Chinese medicine products.
Tests of the first Chinese-standard bullet train began in Beijing on Tuesday as the country moves toward replacing all foreign-standard models with the domestically developed version, a senior official said.
Toll road policies need to be improved, but the debt remains manageable, said Wang Tai, deputy director of China's Ministry of Transportation.
More than 70 scions of wealthy entrepreneurs in Fujian province are being educated at a training course featuring tough, no-nonsense discipline.
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