For centuries, they provided homes for most of Beijing's residents, but for decades the capital's hutong, the maze of narrow, interconnected alleys that crisscrossed the city were deemed outdated and shabby, so they were torn down to make way for highly profitable real estate development.
On a hot summer day, a group of school children gathered for a field trip at the entrance of Shijia Hutong in Beijing's Dongcheng district.
Editor's note: This is the third in a series of reports China Daily will publish looking at the lives of elderly people, the problems they face and ongoing efforts to improve their standards of living. More stories will be published in the weeks to come.
Happy Life Insurance Co is the only Chinese insurance provider that has proposed a tangible reverse mortgage product.
Chai Xiaowu, a retired economics professor at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, was the first scholar in China to study reverse mortgages.
When I first arrived in China, I was worried for my Chinese friends whenever they said they were sick and "going to the hospital".Where I'm from, going to the hospital is serious - usually involving a serious or life-threatening emergency or a pre-booked specialist service like surgery. Generally people prefer to see a local doctor.
Imagine you have bacterial infection and all the antibiotics prescribed by doctors in the hospital cannot cure it. This is no science fiction scenario about "superbugs"; it is actually happening worldwide. Improper or overuse of antibiotics is proven to be the leading cause of public health problems.
What has been the buzz on China's social media networks during the past week? No, it was nothing to do with the Olympics, but rather the divorce of a famous actor Wang Baoqiang and his wife Ma Rong.
When the US' Tianna Bartoletta stood at the starting line of the 4x100 meters solo women's relay in the Maracana Stadiumon Thursday evening, she added another color to the already colorful Rio Olympic Games: strangeness. The US quartet was to run a solo relay - without challengers.
Working teams have been established to coordinate and implement potential action plans
When China hosts the G20 Summit next month the event will provide an ideal opportunity for the United Kingdom's new Prime Minister, Theresa May, to meet senior officials after a change of direction on a key project, and get the "golden era" back on track.
On August 10, the G20 Hangzhou Summit organizing committee launched a multilingual emergency and service call center to help attendees and journalists work and travel in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province.
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