Ou Mingyu, a 26-year-old wedding photographer from Britain, was constantly gazing at her mobile phone during dinner with friends. She was maintaining contact with clients across the world via WeChat.
While China's rapid economic growth provides major appeal to draw homegrown talent back from overseas, further legal development remains essential to attracting more, according to Liu Xuezhi, vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science.
Closer collaboration between universities and industry can better prepare students for China's economic changes, according to Li Qiang, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University.
China's Belt and Road Initiative to boost common development must overcome geopolitical, cultural and security risks, because it should be aimed more at benefiting people and less at making money.
Libo county officials in Southwest China's Guizhou province recently ordered a woman surnamed Tan to abort her five-month pregnancy because she had violated the local family planning rule. The middle-school teacher has a child from her first marriage and her present husband has an adopted child, so she is not eligible to have another child, the officials said, warning her that she would lose her job for not following the order.
A TV drama set during China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) has been pulled off the air, showing the country's top film, TV and radio watchdog has finally taken action against controversial Japan-related films and TV plays that distort historical facts and challenge common sense.
Money has become omnipotent. It is used to measure the value of life and increasingly so to determine the cost of death. Economists have been trying to assign monetary value to every living and non-living objects. Just the other day an American paid $350,000 Namibian authorities to hunt an endangered black rhino saying the amount was enough to compensate for the loss and would help raise awareness about wildlife and boost efforts to save the species from extinction.
Customers and staff members in Beijing's bars and nightclubs are exposed to the most secondhand smoke in the city, according to a survey by health authorities.
President Xi Jinping has asked authorities to befriend and recruit more non-Communist Party of China intellectuals and representatives, stressing their role in economic development and in cleansing the Internet.
Talented recruits were in high demand on the Chinese mainland in the first quarter, especially in the State-owned enterprises sector, according to an employment survey.
With college graduation ceremonies just weeks away, job hunting has entered its most intense period. Graduates are finding that although gender discrimination in employment has been officially prohibited for years, it remains widespread.
A steel plant in Hanzhong that reported record-high production in April was repeatedly rejected over environmental concerns and continues to operate despite multiple failures to receive ministry approval, media reports said.
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