Editor's Note: With more Chang'an freight trains running to Central Asia and Europe, a self-styled coffee street catering to creative industries, a relaxed household registration policy and public campaigns to promote civic-mindedness, Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, is trying to raise its competitiveness and become more attractive to talent, investors and tourists. We sent reporters to the starting point of the ancient Silk Road to find out more about the city's modernization efforts.
Xi'an has seen its population swell by 300,000 this year since the relaxation of its household registration policy - good news for recruiters.
A military veteran is not letting the aches and pains of old age get in the way of his desire to keep the streets of an ancient Chinese city pristine.
Xi'an Inno Startup Wonderland is harnessing the cultural power of coffee to attract China's young entrepreneurs and fuel business innovation in the capital of Shaanxi province.
China's parents are questioning whether the government's recent move to lessen the schoolwork burden on primary and secondary school students can achieve the intended result.
Zhang Xiaochi, the father of a kindergarten pupil in Dongguan, Guangdong province.
For over two decades, Zhang Junlan, 56, has been busy with her reporting role at Tianjin Daily - but she's been up to a lot more, too.
A police officer in northern China has been posthumously recognized as a "model of the era" for the devotion he showed to helping people, often going above and beyond the call of duty.
The first corruption suspect detained by the Zhejiang Supervisory Commission, a civil servant, was imprisoned for 15 years and fined 2 million yuan ($318,000) by Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court in December.
Jin Xiaodong, head of the Shangcheng district supervisory commission in Hangzhou, received his first case about a month after his commission was set up in February last year.
Harbin University for Seniors in Heilongjiang province is now offering a course to its elderly male student body that was formerly only available to "coeds".
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