One-legged marathon runner inspires many

It's a serious challenge for a fully able-bodied person to finish a marathon. Doing it on one leg goes beyond the remarkable and enters the realm of amazing.

Around China

Sichuan

Massive telescope's 30-ton 'retina' undergoes final test

Scientists carried out the last step in testing a key component of China's gigantic radio telescope on Saturday. After its scheduled completion in September, it will be the largest such telescope in the world.

In quiet Guizhou, big dish can listen

Mankind started watching the sky with telescopes since Galileo Galilei some 400 years ago.

Region blanketed by heavy snow

Key expressways were closed and flights were canceled over safety concerns on Sunday, as a wide area of northern China was hit by a snowstorm that disrupted transportation.

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Tech companies adjust focus to recapture growth

Amid downward pressure on China's economic growth, traditional companies in Beijing's high-tech zone are seeking higher profitability by changing their focus to an Internet-oriented model and adopting high-end manufacturing.

High-tech hub draws business start-ups

Zhongguancun, dubbed China's Silicon Valley for its high-tech products and services, intends to transform from an electronics-dominated enterprise zone into an innovation-oriented incubator by focusing on business start-ups.

New Internet platform for construction enterprises

Glodon Software Company, the first listed company in the construction engineering information industry, is migrating to Internet-oriented services to better serve the building industry.

Books bridge the cross-Straits divide

In his memoir Once Upon a Time in Taiwan, writer Liao Shinchung, a 38-year-old former store assistant from the island, described his first encounter with a mainland resident, on an airplane in early 1990s.

How boredom made a best-seller

In 2007, Liao Shinchung arrived in Shanghai to take up a job, but he became unemployed a year later as a result of the global economic crisis.

Developer's green dreams turn quarry into park

Hundreds of investors visited Taiyuan's east mountains when the city government opened the 800-hectare mountainous area to bidders in 2007, but only one saw the potential of the area long scarred by stone quarries: 55-year-old milk dealer Han Guolin.