Time and tide wait for no one. And neither does technology as we rush pell-mell toward a brave new world of artificial intelligence and things talking to things.
As people across Northeast China were celebrating Spring Festival and preparing to welcome warmer days, life was still hard for wild animals in the Changbai Mountains National Nature Reserve.
In 1980, Yang Haishan began working as a ranger in the Changbai Mountains, Jilin province. Later, he tried to persuade his daughter to follow in his footsteps, but she had other ideas.
Businessmen and tourists started to gather at the border immigration inspection station from 8 am in Hekou county of Southwest China's Yunnan province, preparing to cross the border between China and Vietnam.
Huang Yu-ching spent Sunday at a neighborhood activity center in a renovated single-story building in Xiamen, Fujian province. She was teaching a group of children to draw pictures on brightly-colored lanterns that would be used in the Lantern Festival on Tuesday.
At the end of December, authorities on Taiwan said residents employed in Fujian province as assistants to community directors had breached laws that ban them from working for local governments on the Chinese mainland.
In 2014, the city launched the "Beautiful Xiamen" strategic plan, which encourages community efforts to upgrade residential areas, similar to what has been happening in Taiwan for many years.
When she heard China's civil affairs authorities had been ordered to help children whose parents are serving prison sentences, Zhang Shuqin, who has helped to provide aid to such children for more than two decades, smiled despite her mixed feelings.
Government departments and social organizations should provide more psychological aid to inmates' children to help them integrate into society, the founder of a welfare NGO said.
Retired electrical engineer Kong Xiangming has collected more than 6,000 postcards over the past 48 years that vividly illustrate China's history and radical transformation.
For one group of scientists, winter does not bring exciting prospects of skiing or riding snowmobiles.
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