Science park has a lot to offer businesses

Nantong's new science and technology park now provides a better environment for companies from China and abroad and is a new place for investors to take a look at.

Charity puts a big smile on children's faces

BEIJING - In one of China's most western cities, Kashgar, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, 20 Uygur children aged from six months to 18 years with the disfigurement caused by a cleft lip were given free corrective surgery in July, thanks to the Smile Angels Foundation.

Remote schools get computers and more thanks to HP's gifts

TONGREN, Guizhou - Donating computers to poorly equipped schools in remote mountainous areas is not something new nowadays for enterprises with just a moderate sense of corporate social responsibility. However, some companies choose to go one step further.

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Special train brings sight-saving to poor

BEIJING - Seventeen members of one family in Nanchakaigong, a village in remote Jiuquan, in Northwest China's Gansu province, suffered from genetically inherited cataracts - clouding of the eye's lens resulting in blurred vision.

Small-business fund finds it has full-on empowering effect

BEIJING - Zhang Liping's 6-year-old boy is just learning to walk. Most children his age are already running, jumping and playing with their peers, but the cerebral palsy Zhang's son was diagnosed with five years ago prevents him from doing so.

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Foshan attracting investors with many advantages

For many investors, the city of Foshan in the Pearl River Delta has its unique appeals.

For a real taste of trade in China, head for Guangzhou

For international businesspeople who want to understand more about China's growth up close against a backdrop of global economic difficulties, one of the best places to do so is the autumn Canton Fair in the southern city of Guangzhou, Guangdong province.

Ethnic amalgamation with economic diversification

Go deep enough into the history books looking for China's Guizhou province and you'll discover that this ethnic region has a long, splendid story to tell.

Some not-to-miss food items in Guizhou province

Anyone visiting Guiyang, in southwestern China, this summer, will miss the coolness and the entertainment of the National Ethnic Games, but that doesn't mean you'll lose out entirely because there are still its delicious snacks - one of its most memorable features in fact.

'The best thing that ever happened'

It ended just as spectacularly as it started.