Hao Hai took his wife and daughter to Tokyo on a nine-day trip during the Spring Festival holiday.
Rice-growing techniques learned through thousands of years of trial and error are about to be turbocharged with DNA technology in a breakthrough hailed by scientists as a potential second "green revolution".
Do not let its beauty fool you. A newly identified and exquisitely preserved flower found entombed in amber - fossilized tree sap - may have packed quite a punch.
Tucked away on a tree-lined US college campus, a sprawling ghost town has been built to test the self-driving cars of the future.
While many may see the Spring Festival as one big extended celebration that involves a lot of eating, drinking and merrymaking, there is a serious and often hidden side to the festivities. Here we share stories of people who explain what the event really means to them and their families and how it influences them in their daily lives.
On the seventh day of Lunar New Year, which fell on Sunday, residents of Chengdu gathered at Du Fu's Thatched Cottage in the city's Qingyang district to recite poems and celebrate.
During the Spring Festival this year, Wang Wei, 37, drove for two hours with her husband and 10-year-old son from their villa in northern Beijing to a narrow hutong near Niujie Mosque, to join in her family in celebrating the traditional festival. It's a 20-square-meter house in a courtyard, where her parents live. Her younger brother, Wang Ran, 32, who works for an Internet company in Beijing, also came back to the house with his family to join in the dinner.
High-flying Beijing chef Max Levy tests the waters in Hong Kong with a proven approach, Mike Peters reports.
When in London for the Lunar New Year week, I met an old friend in Chinatown: lemon chicken.
Salt intake has been on the decline in China since 2000, but it currently is still nearly twice the amount recommended by the World Health Organization, a new study said on Tuesday. Published in the US journal Jama, the study was based on total diet surveys in 2000, and from 2009-2011 in 12 of China's 31 mainland provinces, covering at least 46 percent of the Chinese population.
American engineer reluctantly takes up a job at a Chinese company and is happily surprised, report Zhang Li in Nanning and Liu Xiangrui in Beijing.
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