High-speed trains with comfort, Starbucks coffee onboard, free Wi-Fi in stations, and phone apps for ticket purchase. As the Spring Festival travel rush kicked off on Sunday, hundreds of millions of Chinese found that their journeys for holiday homecomings have become much smoother and faster.
Though US Secretary of State John Kerry is eager to gain Beijing's cooperation on issues including Pyongyang's nuclear test and the South China Sea, major achievements are unlikely to come from his upcoming China visit, observers say.
About 20 million women in China are expected to have free operations to help them recover their fertility after the introduction of a policy encouraging all couples to have two children.
In freezing weather on Sunday morning, Wei Guojian began his journey home for a Spring Festival family reunion.
The cold weather affecting many areas of China brought the first snowfall to Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, in 67 years on Sunday, the city's meteorological bureau said.
Millions of residents, business owners and workers began digging out from a massive blizzard on Sunday that brought Washington, New York and other northeastern US cities to a standstill.
I really can't get enough of the information age. Finding out stuff is so ridiculously simple these days. In my time, we would have to ask around, or trek to the library, find the relevant book and then hunt for whatever it is we sought, with no guarantee at all that it would be found.
Item from Jan 25, 1996, in China Daily: Twelve headmasters were honored in Beijing yesterday for creating smoke-free schools. Four others were praised by the government for their support for the national anti-smoking campaign.
Many people consider the family reunion dinner on the eve of Chinese New Year to be the most important part of Spring Festival, according to a recent survey.
Observers have expressed high hopes for China's role in helping Iran reinvigorate its economy, which has been weakened by three decades of international sanctions.
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