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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wanbailin Ecology Park, with viewing decks, orchards and 1,000 hectares of mountainous terrain, is now the most popular keep-fit park for residents of Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province.
With world leaders rallying to combat the Islamic State and other terrorist groups, many people in the West, especially politicians in the United States, have quickly taken a hard line against Muslims.
Some media outlets in Hong Kong recently reported that many tourists from the Chinese mainland damage or soil Western-style toilets in US national parks such as Yellowstone, Grant Teton and Jackson Hole by squatting on them to relieve themselves. Although the reports provide little detailed information, they accuse mainland tourists of improper behavior while traveling overseas.
China has issued its 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) at a time when the world is worried about its economic slowdown. Such worries are understandable because China is one of the most important engines of global growth. If the Chinese economy slows down further, economies that heavily rely on it for their growth will suffer "collateral damage".
Weak international demand and low commodity prices have revealed the vulnerability of Latin America's economy. The region's annual growth rate is expected to be only 0.3 percent this year, the lowest among all economic blocs.
Editor's note: From poverty reduction and railway construction projects to political and trade cooperation, relations between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have developed rapidly. China Daily looks back at the milestones along the road to regional prosperity as Premier Li Keqiang attends a series of meetings in Kuala Lumpur.
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