During a visit to South China's Guangdong province earlier this month to report on the relevance of the 19th century opium wars in modern China, I spent part of a morning in Shamian, where I saw mostly tourists, joggers, female "square dancers" and elderly people gather.
Item from Nov 20, 1987, in China Daily: Surgeons at a hospital remove kidney stones from a patient with a machine that transmits shock waves through water to break up the stones without an operation. The machine is the first one in China.
China will transfer a chunk of State financial assets to its social security funds, a program experts believe will ease the pressure of pension payments as the aging population continues to grow.
Beijing's top official has demanded an inch-by-inch inspection for potential safety hazards after a blaze on Saturday night killed 19 people and injured eight others in Daxing district.
Residents of Nyingchi, in the Tibet autonomous region, celebrated Gompo New Year with festival activities on Sunday despite having been hit by a magnitude 6.9 earthquake the day before.
Hong Kong is launching a joint checkpoint arrangement for the express rail link connecting it with Guangzhou with the signing of a deal between the special administrative region and Guangdong province.Legal experts and lawmakers in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region voiced support for the deal, praising the government's efficiency. They called on the public to work with the government to implement the plan to launch joint checkpoint service at West Kowloon Station on the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link.
China and Panama signed 19 cooperation documents covering such areas as finance, agriculture, trade and tourism in a ceremony witnessed on Friday by the presidents of the two countries.
Chinese space scientists are developing the Long March 8 medium-lift carrier rocket and Long March 9 superheavy rocket, and will design a series of futuristic vehicles to allow space tourism, exploitation of asteroid resources and space-based solar power stations.
US first lady Melania Trump posted a video clip on her Twitter account on Thursday afternoon titled "Thank you#China", followed by the flags of China and the United States.
NEW YORK - About 10 years ago, Jin Chen's parents didn't know much about Alaska, where she was studying. Their neighbors often confused the remote US state with Las Vegas, a city known in China for its casinos.
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