On a Friday afternoon this month, Chen Shilei finished her work quickly and rushed to the fourth floor of a shopping mall in Beijing's Shijingshan district. Her 5-year-old son, Wu Zijing, was participating in a stage performance at the conclusion of a five-day drama camp.
Peibai village looks no different from many other hamlets in North China. Rows of redbrick courtyards lie neatly in square formations, surrounded by plots of farmland resembling plaid.
He Liping, 52, has been working as a Great Wall watchman for five years in Yumen in Northwest China's Gansu province. Every two weeks, he rides his motorcycle around the Great Wall ruins, more than 20 kilometers from his home in Huahai town.
On Aug 15, 1945, Dick Whitaker, a member of the Sixth Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps, was on the island of Guam when he heard of the Japanese surrender.
Esther Snader, a retired foreign teacher, said it was hard to leave the Chinese university she had taught at for more than 19 years, but that leaving her more than 1,200 books to the students was an easy decision.
A high school graduate has regained consciousness 10 days after falling into a coma, thanks to a series of good will messages recorded by his friends.
One evening in July last year, Yang Yongsheng was washing his feet in a creek near his home in the mountains when he noticed a Siberian tiger staring at him from a bush about 3 meters away..
The scientific research and monitoring center of the Hunchun National Siberian Tiger Nature Reserve is located about 550 kilometers southeast of Changchun, capital of Jilin province, near the China-Russia border.
As bike-sharing booms in China, a guideline was released to promote a new form of the sharing economy - this time involving vehicles.
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