A recent report published by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics indicates that 54.6 percent of the elderly in China's rural areas still engage in occupational work and more than 60 percent live alone at home, with young people pursuing a better life in cities.
At their recent summit, the G7 members issued a statement strongly opposing "any unilateral actions that seek to change the status quo, such as large-scale land reclamation" in the South China Sea and East China Sea. Comments:
Fan Jiadong, a Party discipline official at Qing'an, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, died in hospital after he was attacked in the street by a group of masked men.
The local government said that the death of a 13-year-old boy in Xinyang, Central China's Henan province, who went missing six months ago and reportedly died of severe malnutrition and tuberculosis in April, was 70 percent his own fault.
Has the relationship between China and the United States reached "a tipping point"? This question has become important at a time when the US seems to encourage some of China's neighbors to challenge Beijing's legitimate interests in the South China Sea.
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War in 1990 ushered in a huge new wave of globalization.
Twenty-five years ago, Yunnan province was one of China's most isolated and impoverished regions, due to its inland location and mountainous terrain.
It is true that the Chinese economy is slowing in a way that might be making its economic transformation towards steady but sustainable growth more painful than expected.
The statement issued by leaders of the G7 industrialized countries at the end of their two-day summit on Monday contains a thinly veiled criticism of China over the East and South China seas. Western interference of such magnitude cannot possibly help resolve the issues peacefully, but only further complicate them.
A recent report published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which claims China's industrial economy still lags 100 years behind the economies of Germany and Britain, has caused a huge stir among the Chinese public.
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