Asians are known the world over as being "good at math". This is a stereotype perpetuated by popular culture in the West.
Editor's Note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy.
China welcomes the planned visit of United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis in the first half of 2018, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
China has been busy drafting a market-oriented reform package that will go over and above what the rest of the world expects, a senior Chinese official said at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Government at all levels should work resolutely to curb severe workplace accidents and plug loopholes in workplace safety in key industries to better protect people's lives and help produce a higher quality economy in 2018, Premier Li Keqiang said.
President Xi Jinping's advocacy of a community with a shared future for mankind, an open economy, globalization and fighting protectionism and isolationism has been widely welcomed and China has been transforming the proposals into action, said a senior Chinese official attending the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
China will not politicize trade issues, even when its foreign trade potentially enters an era of overall deficits, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday.
China is likely to become the world's largest local government bond issuer within five years - given the fast growth of the Chinese version of municipal bonds - as a way to facilitate debt restructuring reforms and further strengthen fiscal consolidation, an expert told China Daily.
Over the weekend, Wang Fuman spent three days in Beijing living his dreams. The 8-year-old, known online as "Snowflake Boy", met his idols - the Beijing SWAT team - and took a class at China's top police academy.
China's new era will prove to be of major significance for the rest of the world, according to former UK prime minister Tony Blair.
Sunday afternoon, my Indian pals and I watched Hindi movie Secret Superstar at a Beijing cinema that was jampacked - almost 90 percent of the audience was Chinese. A straw poll on my way out confirmed my observation: they enjoyed, and were moved by, the inspirational, feel-good, if a bit melodramatic, film.
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