On a serene night, with a luminous moon gleaming above eastern China's Likeng village, 74-year-old Yu Jiajiu - perhaps the country's last traditional night watchman - sets out to work with his gong and mallet.
Last year was a fruitful one for Chinese archaeologists.
1. Tongtiandong relics in Jeminay, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region - Paleolithic, up to 45,000 years ago
China's national cultural relics watchdog has called for the boycott of an upcoming auction in the United Kingdom featuring a piece of bronzeware suspected of having been looted from China.
Back in 1988, when Hainan island split from Guangdong province and became a province of its own, it was undeveloped. Its economy was dominated by low-productivity agriculture and fishing, which together generated half its GDP of 7.7 billion yuan ($1.1 billion).
The parents of a couple killed in a car crash five years ago finally have the grandson they longed for, after a surrogate carried to term a fertilized embryo deposited by the couple days before the accident.
Unlike smartphone addicts who spend hours a day on social media, playing games or watching videos, residents of Basan village are using smartphones to save lives and local incomes.
Joint wild elephant protection efforts by China and Laos gave impetus to the launch of cross-border wildlife diversity protection work between the two countries in 2006.
In 2016, Lang Enge was in a funk. Due to stricter environmental regulations in Beijing's Yanqing district, he'd had to sell his entire flock of sheep - more than 300 - for just 330 yuan ($50) a head, far lower than the 1,300 yuan he'd paid for them two years earlier.
Tomb Sweeping Festival saw many people travel across the country and mobile internet service fees increase. But the situation will change this year.
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