Writing, let alone publishing, is a luxury for women from China's remote villages, especially those busy with housework or on the farm all day, or those who cannot easily get access to books or the internet.
The first thing car design guru Guy Burgoyne usually shows visitors to his office in Shanghai's Pudong district are his caricatures of heroes from the classic novel Journey to the West, including the Monkey King and monk Tang Sanzang.
China's passion for engineering and innovation has elevated its manufacturing industry on the world stage and contributed to global scientific advances, according to Kumar Bhattacharyya, the influential British-Indian industrialist.
What differences have you seen in the way Chinese engineers were trained in the 1980s and how they are trained today?
Renovated farmhouses line the main street of Dunhuang's Yueyaquan village, which is used on most days by residents to shuttle camels between their stables and the area comprising Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring.
The tide of China's opening-up has been a great help for the preservation of Dunhuang's ancient relics, according to the city's head of cultural heritage protection.
One of the things that makes China unique in the annals of economic history is the fact that it opened up to world right from the beginning of its current wave of economic development. This is in sharp contrast to other Asian countries, such as Japan and the Republic of Korea, which largely shielded their domestic markets from the outside world until after they were well down the path to becoming developed economies.
"Beijing produces 17,400 tons of garbage every day, but the local garbage processing plants can process only 10,400 tons of them. Unless the gap is covered, the metropolis would be surrounded by garbage four years later." A media outlet made this prediction in 2014.
Under a blue spotlight a mouse's brain lies immersed in liquid. A diamond blade peels off a layer of brain tissue 1 micron thick, less than the width of a human hair.
"Know thyself and you will know the universe," said the ancient Greeks. Well, one way to do that nowadays is via DNA analysis.
If you are concerned that your child will be nearsighted, a new artificial intelligence model developed from millions of eyesight records could help predict whether your offspring will need glasses.
When businessman Zhang Junping planted the first tree on Taiyuan's barren Yuquan Mountain seven years ago, he had no idea it would eventually grow into a large, sprawling forest.
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