During a research trip to South Africa last summer, Zhang Chi visited several deprived areas to learn about the conditions facing the people who live in them. The first slum she visited was on the western outskirts of Cape Town, where the residents had built temporary shelters from sheets of iron and strips of linen on plots of deserted land.
When I was learning to drive in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, my instructor once broke the silence with a short but astonishing remark, one I am unlikely to forget: "Chinese workers in construction sites in Africa are prisoners."
If you had been at Daming Lake, a major scenic spot in Jinan, capital of East China's Shandong province, on April 2, then you may have come across an unusual sight - several people dressed in Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) costumes firing bows and arrows by the lakeside.
In China, Spring Festival is usually a time for reunions with relatives and friends. But during the holiday this year, National People's Congress Deputy Song Xinfang locked himself in his room and refused any invitations to dinner.
The number of registered patients with serious mental disorders in China reached 5.4 million last year, with three-quarters of them suffering schizophrenia, China's top health authority said on Friday.
The nomination of candidates who will be considered to stand in the election of delegates to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is proceeding in a "smooth and orderly way", the organization department of the CPC Central Committee announced on Thursday. The 19th CPC National Congress will be held in Beijing in the second half of 2017. A total of 2,300 delegates will be elected by 40 electoral units from across the country.
The job market saw stable growth in the first quarter of this year, with the increase of new positions surpassing the rise in applicants, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said on Friday.
Li Yunfeng, former vice-governor of Jiangsu province, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China and dismissed from public office for violating the Party's code of conduct, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced on Friday.
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