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Boondocks ballet boosts girls' morale

[2015-11-05 07:51]

In August last year, Guan Yu, a ballet teacher from the Beijing Dance Academy, spent a few days in Duancun, a small rural town in the northern province of Hebei.

Online shoppers finding a lot to complain about

[2015-11-03 08:15]

Most complaints made by Chinese consumers last year were about online shopping, a report from China's top legislative body said on Monday.

Ex-newspaper chief faces investigation

[2015-11-03 08:15]

Zhao Xinwei, former Party secretary and editor-in-chief of Xinjiang Daily, has been placed under investigation for suspected "serious disciplinary violations".

UN official lauds childbirth policy

[2015-11-03 08:15]

Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund Babatunde Osotimehin said he hopes the universal two-child policy announced by China last week will lead to the fulfillment of what he characterized as a basic right for all individuals in China to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children.

New family planning rules are not law yet

[2015-11-03 08:15]

Local and provincial authorities must continue to abide by China's current family planning policy until a new policy allowing all couples to have two children goes into effect after being ratified by legislators, the National Heath and Family Planning Commission said in an online statement issued on Sunday.

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[2015-11-03 08:15]

Building a future on mutual understanding

[2015-11-03 08:15]

Although a mere 2,500 people live in Zhongchuan, a village in Longyan, Xiamen, Fujian province, is proud to be the ancestral home of more than 15,000 overseas Chinese.

Change of perspective

[2015-11-03 08:15]

In August, 95 university students from Taiwan visited Shanghai to undertake 28-day internships at a number of well-know local companies, according to a report in People's Daily.

In one sense The Martian is impossible

[2015-11-02 08:07]

Blockbuster sci-fi flick The Martian - and the book it's based on - is the product of exhaustive "what-if" research.

This Day, That Year

[2015-11-02 08:07]

Item from Nov 2, 1990, in China Daily: Workers at the Nantaipingzhuang vegetable shop in Beijing's Haidian district unload cabbages yesterday, signaling one of the first few days for the vegetable to enter the capital's market in large quantities - and the start of winter.

Hot topic

[2015-11-02 08:07]

Many Beijing hospitals are preparing more beds for a baby boom next year, the Year of the Monkey under the traditional Chinese calendar.

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[2015-11-02 08:07]

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