Businesswoman Serkyi is a modern day Renaissance woman, known among the Yugur as a tribal "junkwoman", museum owner, horseback-riding elementary school teacher, khata maker and painter.
As the only foreigner working in Shandan, a remote county in Gansu province between the Gobi Desert and the Tibetan-Qinghai Plateau, Michael Forde occasionally feels isolated from his New Zealand home.
The Yugurs are an ancient nomadic people, descendents of a branch of the Uygurs who prospered during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) around the southeast Tarim Basin in Central Asia.
The human desire for longer life is insatiable, it seems. In the 1950s, life expectancy in China was about 40.
Maca, a member of the Brassicaceae family, has been cultivated in Peru for more than 2,000 years, where it grows exclusively in the central Andes at an altitude of about 3,000 meters, according to Yang Shengchao, a professor at Yunnan Agriculture University.
In July, after four years of recruiting police officers for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations, Huang Wei, 49, associate professor at Hunan Police Academy, returned to China.
What is the best way for the world to understand that a stronger China will shoulder greater international responsibilities? A quick answer is: peacekeeping.
Mobile payment technology has indeed made life convenient for people, but it has also given the country's anti-corruption watchdog a headache.
No nation can pursue modernization by giving its traditional culture a complete burial, as China once attempted half a century ago.
Twelve countries, including the United States, Japan, Singapore and Vietnam, signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on Oct 5 after five years of negotiations. Since the countries together make up 40 percent of the world GDP, the TPP will have a big influence on China and the global economy.
President Xi Jinping's arrival in Singapore on Friday comes amid concerted efforts to upgrade a bilateral free trade agreement and as China's Chongqing has been chosen to be the location for the third intergovernmental project - an urbanization development project - between the two nations
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