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?"
China's courts are embracing new technology and artificial intelligence in a bid to speed up judicial procedures and ensure that verdicts are more accurate and equitable.
The nation's courts are being encouraged to embrace technology to modernize the work of the justice department and make it more transparent.
Cai Jiajian cuts a tough and legendary figure like The Old Man and the Sea. Yet unlike the fisherman in Ernest Hemingway's novel, he doesn't fight alone. Cai has the support of hundreds.
In the past decade, a nonprofit organization has been trying to reverse an imbalance in the quality of education provided in urban and rural areas. Since 2008, Teach for China has been sending graduate volunteers from some of the country's top universities to teach in remote villages and address a shortage of talented teachers. The program is now beginning to reap real rewards.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|