Sitting behind the wheel, I habitually tune into FM103.9, a traffic-focused broadcasting service in Beijing. With traffic jams commonplace in the Chinese capital, many drivers, me included, sometimes turn to the radio station for tips to avoid congested roads, especially during rush hours.
Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, has topped an economic study of best-performing cities in China, while seven cities in eastern China's Jiangsu province made the top 10 list of lower-tier sites.
Peng Qiwei, who has been raising Tibetan mastiffs for more than 20 years, decided to close his kennel park to the public in Beijing this year.
Some precious goods in China once boasted massively high prices due to market frenzy, but now they have suffered huge price drops due to dampened demand.
Boeing Co is considering plans to set up a 737 jet completion and delivery center in China, according to a Seattle Times report, indicating that competition in the Chinese aircraft manufacturing market is heating up.
Samsung Electronics Co is likely to cut jobs in China, amid weakening smartphone sales, a local news site said on Monday.
African countries are set to get a taste of authentic Hunan cuisine after a Chinese company began shipments of frozen, ready-to-eat foods to the continent.
China National Petroleum Corp will shut its regional representative offices and cut overseas branches as the nation's biggest explorer tightens internal regulations to fight corruption.
The Airbus factory in Tianjin will create 250 to 300 jobs in the port city, when its A330 completion and delivery center is operational in the fourth quarter of 2017, said a top company executive.
For the past few years I have been a regular customer at the street corner newsstand in my northern Beijing neighborhood. Twice a week, I buy several digest newspapers that collect articles from print media, and less frequently, I get cartoon books for my young son.
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