The World Capital of China

In English, the word for fine porcelain is 'china'. Since the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), around 2,000 years ago, the city of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province has been a center of the art and skills needed to make the vases and tableware coveted by European royalty and on display in museums around the world. Jingdezhen china was so valuable Europeans called it 'white gold'. Now, Jingdezhen is not just preserving this heritage. The city is investing to make cultivating its living tradition part of a strategy to upgrade its economy and to help fulfill the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) goal for China to become an ecological civilization.

The life of Nuo

Blue skies and green hills were the first things your correspondent saw when approaching Shiyou village in Nanfeng county of Fuzhou in eastern Jiangxi province. Then, the small sweet mandarin oranges drew my attention, though, unfortunately, they were not quite ripe in late August. There were so many happy children, gathering to see what was happening.

Revolutionary past inspires the future

In a modest apartment at Jiangxi Normal University, Fu Xiuyan, former president of the school, celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Nanchang Uprising with his family.

The Bard of Jiangxi celebrated

The city of Fuzhou, Jiangxi province, is preparing furiously for the upcoming Tang Xianzu International Arts Exchange, which will be held from Sept 24 through the end of October. About 20 performing arts troupes from China and the United Kingdom will perform in Fuzhou, including TNT Theatre Britain, Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater of Jiangsu province and the National Peking Opera Company, staging pieces adapted from the works of Tang and William Shakespeare.

Mountain's new roads, farmland beat poverty

The newly-built roads wind steadily up the mountainside through dense bamboo forest, at the end of which is Shenshan village, with a huddled cluster of white-walled houses in traditional style, nestled between the broad green shoulders of the mountains.

Key procedures of Jingdezhen porcelain making

Hyundai gets mired in China market

South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor is fighting an uphill battle in China and there is little sign of it recovering to its former glory, according to analysts.

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Samsung to test self-driving cars on Californian streets

New offers tantalize market with greater prospects of a boost

Global automobile executives swooped into Sichuan province last week to take in one of the four most influential Chinese motor shows, which is tantalizing the sector with the prospect of a boost, amid a market whose overall growth is slowing down.

BMW sizzles and dazzles, as it unleashes brace of models in Chengdu

A giant M-shape screen, standing alone in the BMW pavilion, manifested the extraordinariness of the launch ceremony before the audience of more than one 100 guests and journalists at the ongoing Chengdu Motor Show 2017.

Ford prepares for new energy credit system

Ford Motor Co is in talks with at least three Chinese automakers to produce electric cars, in preparation for China's plan to introduce a punitive new energy vehicle credit system to encourage higher production, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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VW engineer sentenced to 40 months in prison