Dream centers broaden horizons

Xinjing Middle School, a school mainly for migrant workers' children living in Shanghai, recently opened a special classroom that provides hundreds of science books and wifi-connected iPads. As part of a charity program, the classroom aims to broaden the horizons of students and help make their classes more interesting.

UTC to expand its integrated STEM initiatives

As innovative educational flame burns bright in China: United Technologies Corp, the US multinational high-tech conglomerate launched the 2016 STEM Expo in Shanghai in October, and said it will move it to a new location each year.

Aircraft models teach children

Zhang Haoyu, a 13-year-old in his first year of middle school and an aviation enthusiast in Beijing, won the first prize at an aircraft model creative flying contest organized by Boeing Co last year.

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Inner Mongolia has plans to become a big data center

The government of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region is encouraging the development of a big data industry and is introducing a series of policies to attract investment and skill, with an aim to make the region a big data center in northern China by 2020.

CIRC cracks down on speculation by insurers

China's insurance regulator said on Tuesday that it does not support short-term speculative stock trading by insurance funds.

Rosneft sells 20% of huge field to Beijing Gas

Rosneft PJSC agreed to sell 20 percent of its Verkhnechonsk oil and gas field in Siberia for about $1.1 billion to Beijing Gas Group Co in a deal that may give the Russian producer access to China's natural-gas market.

Hong Kong stocks up second day on US poll hopes

Hong Kong stocks eked out a gain for a second day as investor optimism that Hillary Clinton will clinch the US presidential election offset a larger-than-expected drop in Chinese exports.

Retail agents tap into huge potential

Laden with shopping from Harrods and clutching her fashionable Chanel bag, Julie Li is glued to her smartphone WeChat-ing clients back home in China.

Singles Day sales to hit $20b this year

Retail market analysts predicted that November's big shopping frenzy - the China-inspired Singles Day - will see a year-on-year sales increase of 40 percent, as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and major international brands use virtual and augmented reality to woo online shoppers.

Minmetals unit offers sponge city solutions for rainfall usage

WISDRI Engineering and Research Incorporation Ltd, a subsidiary of China Minmetals Corp, the country's biggest metals trader by revenue, said it will provide so-called sponge city solutions - the technology being rolled out in China to counter flooding - to more than 10 major cities including Nanning, Chongqing and Jinan in 2017.