Gan Jianying, who sells artificial Christmas trees in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, is experiencing lackluster business as Christmas nears.
Londoners looking at pictures of masked Beijing residents groping their way through thick smog will feel both sympathy and a sense of deja vu - 63 years ago, more than 6,000 people died when a combination of factors triggered what locals called a peasouper.
Item from Dec 14, 1987, in China Daily: Nanjing people lay wreaths to mark the 50th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. Between Dec 13, 1937, and the following February, Japanese forces killed 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers after capturing Nanjing.
People are divided over apps that offer in-home services, such as personal chefs and hairstylists.
At 10 am on Sunday, residents of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, stood in silence to pay tribute to the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, as an air-raid siren sounded sharply across the city.
Chinese e-commerce companies have done it again. Hot on the heels of Singles Day, the Nov 11 shopping fest that this year saw Alibaba alone rake in 91.2 billion yuan ($14.1 billion) in sales in just 24 hours, another event on Saturday again had tills ringing.
"I'll see you in Beijing," Xie Zhenhua, China's special climate representative told his US counterpart, Todd Stern, and Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan after the Paris climate talks closed on Saturday.
"The landmark climate accord will bring the environmental sector into a new era. In the short term, policies that come with the accord will create opportunities for environment-related stocks. In the long-term, the whole industry will benefit from new policies and new business models, and pricing reforms."
People living in China's ethnic areas will next year benefit from legal services to help them file lawsuits in their local languages, an official with the top court has said.
St. Ignatius Cathedral of Shanghai, once known as the grandest church in the Far East, is undergoing a major face-lift, displacing its parishioners during the upcoming celebration of Christmas.
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