A few weeks ago, Yuan Chaojun quit his well-paid job with a trading company in Shanghai and started teaching people how to "escape from rooms".
A mountain watchman has seen an influx of tourists into his remote patrol site since it was named as a competition venue for the upcoming Winter Olympics.
In her 31 years as a midwife at the Red Cross Central Hospital of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, Xiao Yan has witnessed several changes in the way women choose to give birth.
Economics tells us people have different kinds of demands, which can be met through the means of market. And sociology tells us people have different types of needs, many of which should be provided by the government, rather than being purchased in the market at high costs.
The New York Times has suggested the three young Hong Kong protesters recently jailed by the city's Court of Appeal for violating the law should be awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Nothing could be more ironic than that.
Strange are the ways of politics. Even novices learn the tricks of the trade as soon as they assume office. They may not fathom the essence of the body politic, but they master, or are taught to master, the dirty art of realpolitik, geostrategy and all things that make international relations the mess they are today.
They are dying almost every day, and Ed Gor is trying to find them before they do.
Next month, Elsie Seetoo, one of the estimated 20,000 Chinese-Americans who served in the US Army during World War II, will turn 99. And despite her age, some events from more than 70 years ago remain fresh in her memory.
In spring, Li Mingtong, a university student in Changchun, Jilin province paid 500 yuan ($75) to have a pomegranate tree organically cultivated.
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