To a Westerner the English name a Chinese person uses for himself or herself can often trigger a smile or a puzzled look.
How would you like to be named "Big Mountain"?
More and more Chinese outbound travelers are renting portable Wi-Fi devices before they embark on a holiday, to keep overall vacation costs low and to keep in almost constant touch with family, colleagues and friends, a survey has found.
A clean room to sleep in and a fully functional shower are no longer the only requirements that well-off Chinese travelers look for while booking hotel rooms these days.
My company's turnover this year fell about 20 percent over the previous year. Owing to terror-related concerns, many Chinese tourists who planned to go to France, have changed their destination to safer places such as the United States or Japan.
Beijing Design Week has been an annual event in the capital since 2009. This year's ongoing events under the theme Design 2020 continue through Oct 7.
China's first-ever university course on internet finance, intended to enhance students' ability to understand and manage their wealth online, has begun at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
A professor of marketing at Tan Kah Kee College of Xiamen University in Fujian province has been helping students to focus by encouraging them to hand in their mobile phones before class starts and collect them after it finishes. It is not obligatory, but those who hand in their phone get a point each time as a reward, which will be added to their final examination score. The professor's tactic to encourage his students to concentrate in class has been met with both praise and criticism.
The United Kingdom will collaborate with Jiangsu province on education, according to Jo Johnson, UK minister of universities, science, research and innovation, who recently visited Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, Jiangsu province.
Closer collaboration between the United Kingdom and China in the fields of education and research has been urged by the recently announced new chancellor of the University of Bristol, a prestigious higher education institution in the UK.
Xie Heping, president of Sichuan University, has his own ideas for building the 120-year-old institution into a world-class beacon of higher education.
The history of Sichuan University dates to 1896, making it the pioneering institution of higher education in modern times in Southwest China.
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