Working on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is really not easy, considering the lack of oxygen in the high-altitude environment. But I regard working on this railroad as the best experience in my life.
The Yangtze River reached flood stage in its upper reaches for the first time this year on Friday because of heavy rainfall, but the Three Gorges Dam has captured the flow and mitigated flooding downstream, according to the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Head-quarters.
Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles China Daily will publish in the next few days looking at the structure, history and influence of the Chinese Communist Party as it celebrates the 95th anniversary of its foundation.
This year, ACA Publishing of the United Kingdom will publish the first of a 10-volume collection called Chinese Stories, in association with The People's Publishing House.
Out of Cheng Shilian's loss, came tea. The 76-year-old has experienced the deaths of several family members, but keeping her hands in the soil of East China's Anhui province has helped her to cope.
Chen Zeping and his wife have lived for decades in a rundown, brick-and-clay house in an impoverished village in mountainous Jinzhai county, eking out a living with odd jobs.
A woman in Wuxi city has received 5,000 yuan ($760) compensation after a man saw her naked in a hotel bathhouse. The 40-year-old woman, surnamed Yuan, went to the bathhouse on April 11, and was startled by the man when he rushed in and saw her naked. Yuan brought a lawsuit against the hotel which manages the bathhouse and received an apology and compensation.
In the past five years, China has played host to about 3 million 'foreign experts', expats who work in the country and contribute its success. Although many are relative newcomers, the tradition extends back many decades. Liu Xiangrui reports.
During periods of war and conflict, foreign visitors such as physicians Norman Bethune, Richard Frey, Dwarkanath S. Kotnis and Jacob Rosenfeld treated Chinese soldiers injured in battle, despite being hampered by a dire shortage of medicine, medical equipment and the outbreak of disease.
Huichang is the first place in China to pilot the ISO9001 anti-corruption system
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