In 2007, Liao Shinchung arrived in Shanghai to take up a job, but he became unemployed a year later as a result of the global economic crisis.
Hundreds of investors visited Taiyuan's east mountains when the city government opened the 800-hectare mountainous area to bidders in 2007, but only one saw the potential of the area long scarred by stone quarries: 55-year-old milk dealer Han Guolin.
Wanbailin Ecology Park, with viewing decks, orchards and 1,000 hectares of mountainous terrain, is now the most popular keep-fit park for residents of Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province.
With world leaders rallying to combat the Islamic State and other terrorist groups, many people in the West, especially politicians in the United States, have quickly taken a hard line against Muslims.
Some media outlets in Hong Kong recently reported that many tourists from the Chinese mainland damage or soil Western-style toilets in US national parks such as Yellowstone, Grant Teton and Jackson Hole by squatting on them to relieve themselves. Although the reports provide little detailed information, they accuse mainland tourists of improper behavior while traveling overseas.
China has issued its 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) at a time when the world is worried about its economic slowdown. Such worries are understandable because China is one of the most important engines of global growth. If the Chinese economy slows down further, economies that heavily rely on it for their growth will suffer "collateral damage".
Weak international demand and low commodity prices have revealed the vulnerability of Latin America's economy. The region's annual growth rate is expected to be only 0.3 percent this year, the lowest among all economic blocs.
Editor's note: From poverty reduction and railway construction projects to political and trade cooperation, relations between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have developed rapidly. China Daily looks back at the milestones along the road to regional prosperity as Premier Li Keqiang attends a series of meetings in Kuala Lumpur.
I've been covering European topics of one sort or another on and off during more than 50 years of journalism, and I can safely say I've never seen the European Union besieged by such a set of problems as it now faces.
Item from Nov 20, 1992, in China Daily: Scientists at the University of Science and Technology for National Defense in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, work on software for the China-made Tianhe-2 supercomputer, which can do 1 billion calculations per second.
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