Trade talks held in Washington earlier this month provided an open goal for headline writers. "China to import American rice", or some variant thereof, was how many of the US media outlets greeted the positive outcome of a wide-ranging bilateral economic dialogue.
Last year, I activated the fitness tracking function in China's most popular instant messaging app WeChat in a bid to stay fit. By opting for an account that pulls motion data from my smartphone and auto-counts my steps, I was ranked against my account peers based on the number of steps I took everyday.
The keynote speech made by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, at a high-profile workshop this week offers a glimpse into the themes of the upcoming CPC National Congress. The speech lays an important political, ideological and theoretical foundation for the success of the 19th CPC National Congress slated for later this year.
In the past five years, the People's Liberation Army has made huge strides in its modernization drive, and now boasts an array of world-class weaponry and equipment.
Wang Hang, 28, joined the People's Liberation Army in 2009, when he was a second-year student at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Jia Na was admitted to Tsinghua University in 2005. In 2007, she joined the People's Liberation Army, becoming the first female recruit from Tsinghua since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
World's largest military force has seen role in global governance grow substantially since its founding nine decades ago
Buyers from the Chinese mainland are increasingly on the radars of art dealers across the globe, and the phenomenon is probably most apparent in Hong Kong, which acts as a vital conduit between the mainland and the rest of the world.
It was the middle of the afternoon, but the herdsmen stopped their work and gathered for the arrival of the Ulan Muqir, or Red Bud Troupe.
Using the street as his canvas, a one-legged man spent around six hours making a chalk drawing of Leonardo di Vinci's Mona Lisa on a hot summer day in Linyi, Shandong province, last week.
In 2006, Jiang Yiliang was a freshman at Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University in the Yangling Demonstration Zone, a city in Shaanxi province renowned for agricultural research and technology.
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