Birthdays, new houses, weddings, funerals - every occasion was once an opportunity for a huge banquet, a time for China's rural residents to show off their wealth and save face.
Even as the daily bloodshed continues in the almost seven-year-old Syrian civil war, the country is already planning for its eventual reconstruction.
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The Spring Festival travel rush, or chunyun, when people traditionally return to their hometowns from the places where they work to celebrate the Lunar New Year, is the world's largest annual human migration. This year's chunyun began on Feb 1 and will continue through March 12.
The United States and Canada co-hosted the Vancouver Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula on Jan 15-16. The meeting cast a shadow over the improving relations between the two Koreas.
A task force has been set up to investigate a road collapse on Wednesday that killed at least eight people in Foshan, Guangdong province.
A Shanghai hospital has become the first on the Chinese mainland to introduce play therapy, which is designed to help children overcome the fear of medical treatment and better cooperate with doctors.
China Railway Shanghai Group has upgraded its bullet train maintenance system to guarantee safer journeys during the ongoing Spring Festival travel rush, a time of family reunions that makes for the busiest annual transportation frenzy in the country.
Self-guided tours have become the most popular alternatives for Chinese residents during their Spring Festival holiday, according to research released by the National Tourism Administration on Thursday.
Chinese researchers have regenerated human lung tissue in a patient using that patient's own stem cells, the first time that has been achieved worldwide, said Zuo Wei, lead researcher of the team from the School of Medicine of Tongji University in Shanghai.
Every day, Xu Zhuo, 25, opens her diary and writes down the details of her daily work - feeding, breeding, inoculating and curing red-crowned cranes. She is following in the footsteps of her grandfather, father and aunt in a story that combines dedication and tragedy.
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