Japanese rightists' move to deny Nanjing Massacre doomed to fail

THURSDAY MARKS THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY for Nanjing Massacre Victims. On Monday, a monument for the victims, the first of its kind overseas, was unveiled in Toronto, Canada. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

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The place where nothing is ever lost in translation

In the 1950s and '60s, a group of 46 translators of Kazakh all hailed from Hongdun in Altay, a remote city in the northwest of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Love overcomes ethnic hurdles

Song Huashou and his wife were outwardly calm as they told their love story, but it was easy to spot their inner excitement.

Fruits sow seed of city's export boom

Since the mid-1990s, fruits and vegetables have been helping exporters make a tasty profit in Manzhouli, a border city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

At the border, a passage of time

Trains roar through the grand guomen, or national gate, in Manzhouli on a daily basis to cross the land border between China and Russia.

Farmer by day, writer by night

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.

DESIGNER TAPS LOCAL FLAVOR TO FUEL GEELY'S GLOBAL AMBITION

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.

WMG FOUNDER GIVES CHINA'S ENGINEERS THE SKILLS TO SOAR

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.

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What differences have you seen in the way Chinese engineers were trained in the 1980s and how they are trained today?

Shifting sands bring change

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.

Heritage preservation fueled by opening-up

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.