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.
Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of special reports China Daily will publish in the coming weeks focusing on efforts to eradicate poverty and raise living standards in the rural areas, especially among members of ethnic groups.
A power outage occurred while I was interviewing Liao Yanfei, head of Jinsha village, in the small room where he stores cured meat.
I am in a dilemma. I want to leave the village and earn more money in a big city like I did before, but that's not possible.
Every Friday morning, a dozen parents with hearing-impaired children gather to learn sign language at a workshop in Southwest China's Guizhou province.
En route to Shapotou, there is not much to see except an endless sea of sand. The district, in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, is located where the Yellow River meets the Tengger Desert. For more than five decades researchers have been coming here to fight desertification. Li Xinrong is one of them.
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