Rising labor and technology costs are prompting China's small and medium-sized enterprises, including startups, to increasingly rely on public cloud services for infrastructure automation.
"Wood Has No Borders" reads the sign on one of the buildings at Blue Ridge Lumber Co in Fishersville, Virginia.
From times immemorial, Chinese families attached great importance to education. In the digital age, education has grown into a highly valued service, proximity to which can send residential property valuations sky high.
Okay, 10.5 million yuan ($1.45 million) - that's the price of a 91-square-meter basement flat in western Xicheng district, the Beijing News reported earlier this year.
Children's education, desire for a different kind of life postretirement and expectation of handsome returns on investment are the top three reasons why Chinese parents buy residential property overseas, according to a research report.
Since the first assembled-in-Belarus Geely Atlas rolled off the production line on Nov 17 last year, BelGee, the Sino-Belarusian automaker, has seen a surge in sales. It makes three vehicle models and has sold 3,000 units since then, with 2,000 of them exported to Russia alone.
QINGDAO - When Hisense, a Chinese consumer electronics company, opened its plant in South Africa in 2013, local employees took the bus or carpooled to get to work.
Lu Yizhen grins shyly when fellow villagers call him the "Banana King", although he has had the nickname for many years in his hometown in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
It was a typically scorching summer afternoon in Texas, and just as the temperature hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 C), 10 players from China's national baseball team arrived at the home field of the Texas Air-Hogs in Grand Prairie, about 20 miles west of Dallas.
Mesut Ozil is "Little Wife", Paul Pogba is "Busty" and Jose Mourinho is called "Magic Bird" - Chinese fans and media have conjured up creative and bizarre nicknames for many of the world's biggest soccer stars.
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey - Being the oldest player on the New York Giants, Eli Manning can smile talking about the generational gap between him and some of his younger teammates.
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