Zhen Shilun, a 32-year-old adventurer from Baoding, Hebei province, is kayaking solo along China's 18,000 kilometers of coastline.
In some developed countries, people with intellectual disabilities, such as autism, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome are enrolled in supported employment programs that offer them the opportunity to work. Now China is catching up.
Li Yonghong, 50, mother of Liu Shunli, a 24-year-old with Down syndrome.
"It's okay, take it easy," said the man with a smile, as he paid 15 yuan ($2.20) and accepted a large bottle milk at the Wisdom Tree Coffee Shop, even though he had ordered a medium-sized cappuccino.
It has taken over a decade of painstaking work, but the structure of the world's first quarry hotel is now complete, with the property set to open in Shanghai next year, the owner has announced.
Chinese electronics giant Hisense announced on Tuesday that it would acquire a 95 percent stake in Japan's Toshiba Visual Solutions Corp as part of its efforts to expand its global business. Under the 12.9 billion yen ($112.44 million) deal, which is likely to be completed by the end of February next year, Hisense Electric Co, the listed unit of Qingdao-based Hisense Group, will buy the TV business of Japan's struggling conglomerate Toshiba. After the transaction, Hisense will integrate the research and development wings, supply chains and global resource channels of the two companies.
The phrase "building a community of shared future for mankind", which President Xi Jinping has been frequently referring to both at home and abroad, reflects not only China's global governance philosophy, but also its determination to help build an equal, open and peaceful world.
Not much was expected to come out of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement.
Paris is one of the world's biggest tourist destinations. Millions of people want to follow in the footsteps of writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac and visit the "City of Light", cafes, romance, the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysees.
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