The third-biggest investment destination for Chinese enterprises in the European Union, the Netherlands, offers both favorable policies and a good environment for boosting bilateral economic ties between the two countries, a senior Dutch official said.
Human resources services represent one of the world's fastest-growing industries, with a global market value of around 310 billion euros ($345 billion).
Lionel Levy and Roger Rassin, two executive chefs of Michelin-starred restaurants, are leading a gourmet tour in China with stops in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen from Aug 5 to Sept 2.
Dainty chilled cucumber sandwiches and scones with lashings of jam and clotted cream. The soft chimes of cutlery on fine porcelain plates. Some chitchat about this and that; and of course the delightful enquiry "More tea?"
The highest hotel in Beijing got guests high at a party on Friday night - not by plying them with intoxicants, but by hosting the event on the helipad, which sits on top of the 330-meter China World Tower in which the hotel is located.
For centuries, they provided homes for most of Beijing's residents, but for decades the capital's hutong, the maze of narrow, interconnected alleys that crisscrossed the city were deemed outdated and shabby, so they were torn down to make way for highly profitable real estate development.
On a hot summer day, a group of school children gathered for a field trip at the entrance of Shijia Hutong in Beijing's Dongcheng district.
Editor's note: This is the third in a series of reports China Daily will publish looking at the lives of elderly people, the problems they face and ongoing efforts to improve their standards of living. More stories will be published in the weeks to come.
Happy Life Insurance Co is the only Chinese insurance provider that has proposed a tangible reverse mortgage product.
Chai Xiaowu, a retired economics professor at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, was the first scholar in China to study reverse mortgages.
When I first arrived in China, I was worried for my Chinese friends whenever they said they were sick and "going to the hospital".Where I'm from, going to the hospital is serious - usually involving a serious or life-threatening emergency or a pre-booked specialist service like surgery. Generally people prefer to see a local doctor.
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