The Asia-Pacific region is facing a host of unprecedented economic and security challenges which, ironically, also provide an opportunity for China and Australia to build a stronger partnership.
Since China implemented the universal second-child policy at the beginning of last year, more than half of the 90 million newly eligible couples include women age 35 or older, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman carries and delivers a baby for someone else. The woman who carries the baby is the surrogate. The parents-to-be are known as the intended parents. They are involved in the pregnancy, are present at the birth and become the child's (legal) parents after the baby is born.
The number of Chinese seeking surrogacy services at the Southern California Reproductive Center in Los Angeles has risen gradually in recent years, according to Mark Surrey, the center's chief medical officer.
Doctor Zhao Yede has performed gender reassignment surgery on nearly 1,000 patients since he began practicing medicine in 1992.
When is a lemon not just a lemon? Well, in Tongnan, a district of Southwest China's Chongqing, it can become anything from fruit tea to a facial mask to essential oils once it hits the production line.
Since becoming a deputy to the National People's Congress in 1988, Jin Lanying has attended 30 of the body's annual meetings in Beijing. She was the head of a community committee in Tai'an city, Shandong province, when she was elected as a national legislator.
China and Russia could break the mold for economic cooperation by coordinating development of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union, according to Chinese observers.
Russia and China have achieved positive results through cooperation on infrastructure construction, and investors are anticipating more opportunities, according to the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
In the odor laboratory at Chongqing Jiangbei Environment Monitoring Station, a panel of six assessors prepare to evaluate gas samples based on their smell alone.
Unlike the typical bustling, crowded hutong found elsewhere in Beijing, the streets of the Dashilan subdistrict are quieter and more laid back.
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