At about noon on Jan 1, Xie Peng curled up on a tattered cushion on the ground and ate his meager lunch, a single pancake that cost 5 yuan (75 cents).
It was a cold morning. The gray sky and smog that had engulfed the city for days made me feel that it wasn't a good start to the day. It wasn't. When I arrived at Dongxiaokou village, I realized that the garbage collection center I had seen on the Internet no longer existed. Even though plastic and construction waste had been left in the yard, a wooden sign on the gate proclaimed that the building had been converted into a ceramics factory.
Editor's Note: The Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, which has a long history of contact with Southeast Asia, thanks to its affinity in language, culture and customs, is set to become China's pathway to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, forming a new strategic pivot in Southwest and Central China's opening up. China Daily spoke with Peng Qinghua, the region's Party chief, to find out more.
China's gatekeepers will intensify inspections and quarantines of animals and plants for import and export this year to cope with increasing challenges of biological safety brought by increasing international exchanges.
Mothers in Beijing, Shanghai and Shandong province are expected to have more days off work after giving birth under the new national policy encouraging couples to have a second child.
A senior official has been placed under investigation, the Tianjin municipal disciplinary watchdog said on Monday.
A Seattle mother traveled more than 9,100 kilometers to Shanghai in hope of finding the biological parents of her adopted son before he goes blind.
The renminbi's fall to a five-year low against the US dollar has triggered a currency exchange boom on the Chinese mainland, forcing the regulator to strengthen intervention to ease capital outflow pressure.
China's younger generation is tasting the "forbidden fruit" of sexual intercourse at earlier ages compared with their predecessors, according to a report by Peking University's Center for Social Surveys that was released on Sunday.
Guangdong police cracked 83 cases involving transactions through secret private banks between April and December, seven times more than all of 2014.
China's growing global importance and economic strength mean groups of Chinese visitors are now commonplace at the world's great tourist destinations.
The Belt and Road Initiative will bring many opportunities for China's struggling inbound tourism sector, according to experts.
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