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.
As the Boeing 747 plummeted for what seemed about 300-plus meters, Fung Wing-ho seized the armrests as the shock lifted him out of his seat. Only a few rapid heartbeats later, a second, more violent jolt hit the plane and Fung saw two fellow passengers sail aloft, crashing into the ceiling of the fuselage. Passengers shrieked. In the galley, a flight attendant thrown to the floor howled in pain.
When he learned to paint as a teenager, Xiao Yanqing, 52, a farmer in Henan province, could never have imagined it would lift him out of poverty.
Lu Li-an was confronted with a pointed question during last month's 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: "Now you have become a Party delegate, you won't love Taiwan anymore, will you?"
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