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'Great Wall of culture' a great idea

We live in an era of increasingly dumbed-down global gullibility, when even the most outlandish prevarications take on a veneer of respectability when prefaced with something like "According to the latest online information..."

This Day, That Year

Item from Nov 13, 1984, in China Daily: Xiamen, Fujian province, takes the lead among the country's four special economic zones by ensuring a free flow of funds in and out of the zone, and setting up the first joint venture bank, the Xiamen International Bank.

Expert: Day care needs will expand

Child abuse that allegedly took place at the in-house day care center of online travel agency Ctrip has continued to ignite public discussion after prosecutors specializing in crimes against children in Shanghai's Changning district took up the case last week.

Flight attendant who fell from plane stable

A flight attendant who fractured a bone in her chest after falling from a stationary aircraft in Henan province is expected to be discharged from the hospital within a week, her employer, Xiamen Airlines, said on Saturday.

Evidence of Unit 731 atrocities found in US

Researchers at the Harbin Academy of Social Sciences in Heilongjiang province say they uncovered fresh evidence of germ warfare atrocities committed by Japan's Unit 731 in documents they found in the United States.

Standards raised for fire probes nationwide

Two sources of fire risks - skyscraper-dense cities, and villages with limited access to firefighting equipment - are priorities in China's fire-control campaign, according to a senior official, and more rigorous investigations will be undertaken by local governments when fires result in injuries or fatalities.

Online studies in China booming

China's online education market is forecast to reach 194 billion yuan ($29 billion) this year, with the number of active users set to surpass 110 million, according to a report released on Sunday.

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Party School teachers learning lessons in life

In 2015, shortly before delivering his first lecture at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, Zheng Huan began to panic. He felt he wasn't ready for the challenge of delivering the class lecture, even though he had spent three years employed as a teaching assistant and was familiar with the school's methods and ethos.

First class terrors and errors

Li Shaowen, 29, joined the school in 2016

Paddler plans to kayak to Arctic Ocean

The Irtysh River flows from Hou Zhili's hometown and leads to the Arctic Ocean - a journey Huo plans to make alone in a kayak.