Mardan Mamat, a basketball player dubbed "the little Jordan" by his classmates, has been studying at No 66 Middle School in Urumqi since last year as part of a massive project to offer more educational opportunities to rural students in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Arfanjan Osmanjan eyed the car's air conditioning system. As part of his training at Anhui Automobile Industry School, Arfanjan's instructor had introduced an error that would trigger a technical breakdown.
Thousands of kilometers from home, in a strange city with a sometimes loose grasp of the language, teenagers from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region find themselves homesick, lonely and struggling to communicate.
When Lily (not her real name) received the results of a genomic test she had taken, she was relieved and delighted to discover that it had ruled out the possibility of a higher-than-average risk of breast cancer.
The argument that demand-side management, like monetary easing and fiscal stimulus, cannot pull economies out of their woes has been commonly heard in the United States and Europe, and also here in China, where it has given rise to the government's push for supply-side reform.
Ted Tokuchi has been in China for a long time, so long that he is highly regarded by the government as one of the few "foreign experts" who has been with China through its past 40 years of reforms. Likewise his views among his friends in Beijing's financial business circle.
China's industrial growth has most probably broken free from the danger of a sharp downturn in 2016, according to a group of economists with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Reform of China's stock market policies must be carried out cautiously and in line with actual market conditions, an editorial in China Business News said. Following is an excerpt from the editorial:
Suing government agencies will become easier, as further streamlining of the system is being explored to polish procedural rough edges and to find innovative solutions for settling disputes, according to court officials.
China plans to build its own ocean-drilling research vessel to enhance the country's exploration of deep-sea resources, according to an expert.
Visitors to China might be surprised to learn that pictures of George Washington can be seen on some locally printed currency - not the official paper money, of course, but on some bills burned for the dead during the Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, which fell this year on Monday.
The Chinese government's supply-side reforms urge the modernization of agriculture and call for innovative, sustainable farming models. But it's hard to imagine a farm as innovative as Zhou Jing's, where 2 million chickens roost in the pine trees of East China's Jiangxi province.
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