Zhuo Yi loves kicking a beverage can around the rural neighborhood near his home, pretending he is dribbling a soccer ball past defenders one after another. It's been the sixth-grader's favorite outdoor activity since he first watched a televised game by chance at a village grocery store in 2013.
Never in her wildest dreams did Liu Zhai imagine that participating in soccer training would change her life and take her so far from home.
A poverty-relief volunteer's love of soccer has inspired some of the poorest children in the country to dream big.
New innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration zones will be established to expand the innovation strategy to wider areas and industries.
Departments and ministries under the State Council, China's Cabinet, have responded to a series of public concerns in the past week, including express delivery data sharing, tax and administrative fees, school food safety, rural collective property rights and chemical accidents.
The General Office of the State Council issued the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) for rejuvenating border areas and boosting the livelihoods of residents. It has introduced measures to further help border areas prosper comprehensively. The plan stresses that the central government will give priority to supporting reform and innovation in the border areas and accelerating these regions' development, and will further provide preferential policies to the border areas.
At a time when large cities are still sucking in rural residents from across the nation, a major city in Central China is working hard to reverse the trend by encouraging people to move to the countryside.
Five years ago, retiree Chen E'xiang rented a house in Hanzishan village, a 90-minute drive from Wuhan, the capital Hubei province. He has lived in the village ever since.
1. When outsiders wish to rent empty house in villages, the agreement of local residents must be sought. If that agreement is forthcoming, the municipal government must ensure that all administrative approval procedures are completed within three working days.
Jayson Au had been cruising hassle-free in his Tesla Model S. He had turned on Autopilot, the car's driver assist feature, and was feeling relaxed as he passed through Hong Kong's Cross-Harbour Tunnel to pick up his family after a trip to Macao.
All of a sudden, the world's power balance is shifting, with China and to a lesser extent the European Union as the main beneficiaries. Most observers feel US President Donald Trump's rambling speech announcing the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement marked a point at which he unwittingly yielded international influence to China, whose economy is steadily growing and is on track to become the largest in the world soon.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was expanded for the first time at the two-day summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, with the inclusion of India and Pakistan. The inclusion of the two major regional countries in the SCO demonstrates the organization's growing appeal.
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