China plans to build a Giant Panda National Park spanning three provinces to help the endangered animals mingle and enrich their gene pool.
When a panda died after being released into the wild late last year, the Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding became the target of criticism. Hesheng, a captive-bred panda, died in September, two months after being released into the wild in Southwest China's Sichuan province, according to an announcement from the research base.
Three generations of one family in Hunan have returned to their remote hill village to teach
As the weather warms, 80-year-old Xu Shiyou is finding it easier and easier to sell colored balloons outside a busy shopping mall in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province.
For generations, poets used the term bishui, or "emerald water", to describe Lake Taihu, China's third-largest freshwater body, famed for its scenery and clear water that reflected the surrounding green hills.
Without his walking stick and mud-soiled shoes, it would be easy to mistake the silver-haired, softly spoken Qin Boqiang for a professor of literature. Instead, he is the chief ecologist for Lake Taihu.
Algae pollution is a major threat to China's freshwater supply and ecosystem. Over the years, technology has become more effective at curbing algae blooms, but that will not be enough to cure the problem, ecologists said.
Yi Xiaoyuan had never been so "proud and nervous" in his life. On March 24, the 26-year-old computer science student looked on as the machine he had spent two years working on competed in its first "classical poem relay" at the Shanghai Science Hall.
During the annual gathering of national legislators and policy advisers at this year's two sessions, Zhu Hong prepared a cup of tea for each participant in her panel discussion using dried chrysanthemums she had brought from home.
In 2014, a friend told Yin Binbin about the bleak lives of the residents of Mathare, a slum area in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. As he listened, an idea occurred to Yin - then a sophomore at Shandong University in East China - he would volunteer to work in a school in the ghetto.
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