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Putting the sparkle back in Erhai Lake

[2017-06-01 07:33]

For the past two months, Zhao Qiuhua has had to skip dinner most days, and he has rarely been able to get to bed before 2 am. Not that he minds, as he's helping to clean up China's treasured Erhai Lake.

For a quiet life, more urbanites are heading to Dali

[2017-06-01 07:33]

Su Jinning used to commute more than an hour a day to work in Beijing, sometimes driving through thick smog. Now, he spends his mornings under a blue sky, walking the 5 kilometers from his home to a small market to shop for fresh vegetables.

Banders brave elements for migration studies

[2017-06-01 07:33]

On a fresh spring morning on Mao'er Mountain, about 100 kilometers from Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, 50-year-old Wu Wei begins the day with one of his regular inspections of 106 nets, carefully removing any trapped birds.

Beekeeping has village buzzing

[2017-06-01 07:33]

Editor's note: In the run-up to the 19th Communist Party of China National Congress, China Daily sent six reporters to live for a month in poor villages to see how China's poverty eradication plan is improving people's lives.

Around China

[2017-06-01 07:33]

Yunnan

'single-window System' Will Boost Trade

[2017-05-31 07:35]

Cargo clearance procedures will be streamlined to smooth foreign trade and improve the business environment.

Ministries respond to key public concerns

[2017-05-31 07:35]

Central ministries and departments responded to a series of public concerns in the past week, including whether passports can be used to take domestic flights, management of bike sharing, gaokao, or the national college entrance examination, and poverty reduction.

Policy digest

[2017-05-31 07:35]

State Council decides to tackle shanty towns

Rice balls commemorate drowned poet

[2017-05-30 07:50]

The Dragon Boat Festival, celebrated annually on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet who drowned himself in the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month, when ancient Chu State was occupied by enemies in 278 BC.

Plant that wards off evil wins new generation of supporters

[2017-05-30 07:50]

People's to-do lists for the Dragon Boat Festival, traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, often include hanging a plant called argy wormwood on the door, which is believed to eliminate evil spirits or misfortunes.

Wetland park promotes harmony between humans and nature

[2017-05-30 07:50]

The Miluojiang National Wetland Park, located in Hunan province, covers an area of 2,954 hectares, and is crossed by the Miluo River, so countless pools are dotted around.

Industry is bracing for exponential growth home and abroad

[2017-05-29 08:20]

Esports, an umbrella name for organized competitive video gaming, is not what comes to mind when people think of sports.

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