The search for the perfect looks is prompting a huge number of Chinese people to go under the knife, spawning a multi-billion-dollar industry centered on plastic surgery.
Just 25 minutes of brisk walking a day could add to seven years to your life, heart experts have said.
I hold my ground for as long as possible. She's got to be near to the end of her lunch hour by now - surely her sandwiches are calling. At dangerous risk to my balance, I again glance sideways at the adjoining treadmill to check that my neighbour hasn't surreptitiously upped the game and increased her speed. She catches me looking and the awkward truth dawns - she's being raced, unwittingly, by a colleague. In the office gym. At stake is not just a question of superior fitness levels. I want to win in revenge for that sarcastic comment she made in a meeting last week. The fact that she is paid more than me will cease to matter as long as I finish this session ahead of her, proving that I am more determined, more willing to go to extremes, more steely-eyed than she is - if only on the running machine.
Northwest China's Zhangye revives its ancient culture through tourism and ethnic development
If you are looking for a holiday to treat both your eyes and taste buds, Panjin, a coastal city in Northeast China's Liaoning province, is a little-known treasure.
It might be a headache to find a place to hide from all the crowds during the coming national holidays. But one of the answers could be Beijing Design Week, or BJDW, the annual week-long carnival celebrating all things design-related.
After a successful start at transforming the Dashilar hutong area, Beijing Design Week has focused on another old courtyard area, Baitasi.
For designers, children can be a source of endless inspiration, as participants found at a recent forum at Beijing Design Week.
The ongoing sixth Beijing International Art Biennale at the National Art Museum of China focuses on the latest developments in the worlds of painting and sculpture, but it also includes other artistic forms, such as photography and video, to enhance the theme of "memory and dream".
The blockbuster art show 15 Rooms, which opened at the Long Museum in Shanghai on Thursday, has created quite a stir.
Internet entrepreneurs in China are just as innovative and creative as those in Silicon Valley, and this is not something to be feared, but to be embraced, says Porter Erisman, former vice-president of China's Internet giant Alibaba and the author of Alibaba's World.
Hundreds of publishers from around the country gathered in northern China's Shanxi province last weekend for the 25th National Book Expo.
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