Working at over 4,000 meters above sea level, botanist Xue Jingqi and his colleagues felt their heads throbbing with altitude sickness.
Fitness experts often advise against working out close to bedtime because of the belief that late-night exercise can hinder people's ability to nod off and may also result in poor-quality sleep.
Before I started interviewing people who visit the gym at midnight, the notion that someone with a daytime job would prefer to exercise late at night seemed unreal and farfetched.
China's second winner of an international skills challenge in fashion technology, 22-year-old Tan Huiwen wants to become a fashion designer now that he has graduated from vocational college.
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of stories focusing on the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, looking at developments in the environment, the economy and the cultural and business sectors, and poverty alleviation measures.
Chao Dairong, deputy director of the Yecheng county agriculture and rural affairs bureau, Kashgar, Xinjiang.
A course teaching senior citizens phrases from English dialogue in films and television series is proving to be a hit at Harbin University for Seniors in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.
At around 7 am, trucks loaded with several metric tons of chicken bones, heads and intestines arrived at a waste disposal plant and dumped the nonedible chicken parts into an underground container through a small hole.
Born deaf in an impoverished household in Northwest China's Gansu province, 7-year-old Wang Xinlian was only able to communicate through simple gestures for many years. As she reached school age, her disability's impact on her learning abilities became too obvious for her father Wang Zhonghui to ignore.
China's national railway operator finalized its restructuring and name change on Tuesday, an effort expected to make it more market-oriented.
A captive-bred baby Sunda pangolin is expected to be born in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region later this month - a milestone in artificial propagation that might save the critically endangered species from extinction.
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