Recently, I've noticed a sharp decline in the number of food stands in the streets around my community. These places usually serve cheap, instant food such as fried potatoes, pancakes and malatang (boiled vegetables and meat in a spicy sauce). Owing to concerns about hygiene I have never bought anything from them, but I always see crowds standing around them on my way home from work.
On Wednesday, Beijing and Shanghai, two of China's biggest cities, announced new rules on car-hailing services that will ban drivers without local hukou, also known as household registration, from working in the sector.
Scientist with love for bugs helped discover thousands of viruses
Two years ago, Han Chunjing was an amateur chef, parading her attempts at China's world-renowned cuisine on social media. Today, the 45-year-old is one of a growing number of fitness enthusiasts posting gym selfies to show off their impressive physiques.
When thinking of physical fitness, the image of a muscular young man in a gym may come to mind at first, rather than that of an elderly person with gray hair exercising on fitness equipment. However, fitness doesn't just belong to the younger generation in China. Seniors are also active in fashionable fitness routines, such as working out in gyms and running marathons.
Before online payment systems brought so much convenience to our lives - allowing us to book taxis, go shopping or eat at a restaurant without carrying a wallet - the most famous online adage was: "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog"..
Police are already using frontier technologies such as drones, 3-D printing and cloud computing in the fight against crime, and now it's the turn of face-recognition technology. While criminals are busy using technology to try and hack into bank accounts, the police are watching them via cameras distributed throughout cities.
While computers are more efficient than people at storing information and retrieving it quickly, the human brain's primary strength lies in using the imagination to fill in the blanks when information is missing.
In a major step to improve the national ecology, the central government has promulgated a new plan to boost wetland preservation and restoration, especially natural wetlands.
Ministries and State Council departments have responded to a number of public and media concerns over the past week. One that attracted the most attention is the ongoing heavy pollution over Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and nearby provinces, for which Beijing and several other cities have already issued red alerts.
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