For the past 10 years I have been crazy about cycling on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Every summer vacation, I spend a month biking across the plateau.
When Mao Zedong stood on top of the Liupan Mountains in China's northwestern Ningxia Hui autonomous region, the founder of New China said, "One who fails to reach the Great Wall is not a hero."
In November, a patient in Hefei, Anhui province, went to a community health center and was diagnosed with heart arrhythmia by doctor He Qi.
For a few decades from the 1950s to the 1990s, Wenshan city in Southwest China's Yunnan province ranked first in terms of arsenic production in China.
Editor's note: This is the seventh in a series of stories focusing on the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, looking at developments in the economy, the cultural and business sectors, and poverty alleviation measures.
Impoverished residents of bleak backwaters in Tashikurgan Tajik autonomous county have been relocated to Tati Kuli, a government-supported settlement that offers better conditions for farming and higher standards of education and healthcare.
China has unveiled a guideline for improving the protection of nature reserve areas, with the aim of reaching world-leading management and preservation levels by 2035.
Several ministry-level departments, including those for finance, emergency management and health, have responded recently to issues of public concern.
As Shanghai prepared to introduce mandatory garbage sorting on July 1, games and toys that explored fun ways to spread information about the practice were used to encourage younger people to take heed.
A few years ago, collecting garbage was a bleak business for everyone involved. However, since trash sorting became an important practice in many parts of China, it is a promising sector.
Under the touch of petite scientist Yan Ping, a tall and powerful black yak, weighing more than 400 kilograms, becomes as obedient as a lamb.
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