Few students choose paleontology as a college major - so few that Peking University has been lucky to admit one per year. In two of the last seven years, there were no applicants at all.
Despite there being no direct flights between the British city of Manchester and the Chinese mainland, the inconvenience of transportion hasn't hindered close exchanges and cooperation between the University of Manchester and its partners in China.
To prepare children for long-term study overseas, increasing numbers of Chinese parents send their children on brief foreign study trips during summer breaks.
After leaving professional soccer, Dai Qiang struggled to make a living. But now he has discovered a new job in the sport - as a coach at a primary school in Hohhot, in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
Uygur mother Zoregul Memet is grateful her child Ayitla Memet is able to attend kindergarten for free and learn to speak Mandarin.
Chinese applicants who want to study in Germany must prepare intensively to pass an examination hosted by the German embassy - a test that has blocked many students, overseas study experts said.
Shen Yu recently resigned from the kindergarten where she worked for two months, waving goodbye to her first job after graduating from university last year and knowing she would suffer setbacks looking for a job again.
Many operators of startup online education companies once claimed that they would overthrow New Oriental, the country's largest private online educational chain. Quite a few of them were former employees of New Oriental.
Increasing numbers of talented Chinese who have studied or worked overseas are choosing to start a business in a less-developed inland province, driven by local governments' policy and funding efforts.
A recent report shows that only 10.5 percent of white-collar workers entertain no thoughts of job-hopping, drop from 44.5 percent in autumn last year.
For every festival in China, there is always some food associated with it. The Chinese people were one of the first to truly appreciate the meaning of seasonal, and sustainable.
Item from Sept 29, 1996, in China Daily: An employee of the Beijing Yishida Tanshi Real Estate Consultant Co shows a model home to a visitor at the Fourth China Beijing Real Estate Exhibition last week ... Residential housing, classified as one of the country's pillar industries, is expected to highlight the national economy, as China's construction authorities have outlined a development plan for the next 15 years.
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