Living Buddhas, also known as Rinpoches or Tulkus, are deeply revered monks in Tibetan Buddhism, where it is believed that the soul of a senior Buddha is reincarnated in a child on his death.
Decades ago, Mao Zedong succinctly settled the age-old debate about gender equality when he stated that "women hold up half the sky".
Item from Dec 8, 1996, in China Daily: A technician inspects the newly built 180-million-yuan microchip production line at Beijing's Tsinghua University.
About 60 percent of adults in China do not save for old age, according to a recent S&P Global FinLit Survey on financial literacy.
Tu Youyou, this year's Nobel Prize laureate for physiology or medicine, called for joint efforts worldwide to combat malaria and develop more potential uses for traditional Chinese medicine.
China's struggling inbound tourism industry has shown signs of rebounding, a new report says.
China has been working closely on its national precision medicine initiative featuring a gene bank covering at least several million Chinese, said a top Chinese scientist.
China will continue to play a bridging role between developing and developed countries during the ongoing climate talks in Paris, according to the country's top climate negotiator.
China is set to put its national carbon market into operation in 2017 through working with the European Union, the country's top climate change envoy said at the weekend.
China's first lady Peng Liyuan has pledged to support Africa's medical and health programs.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|