Two thousand years ago, privileged Chinese, such as aristocrats or superrich businesspeople, could expect a lot upon their deaths.
Ye Jing, a 26-year-old investment manager from Beijing, has been busy nianhuo shopping - purchases made specially to mark the upcoming Spring Festival.
Chinese across the world will celebrate the Year of the Pig on Tuesday.
On Monday, Saudi Arabia launched a national industrial development and logistics program, hoping to attract more than $426 billion in investment by 2030 in order to diversify its economy. As part of "Vision 2030", the program is aimed at building the Middle East country into a leading industrial power and logistics hub in the world, by promoting industrial upgrading and integrated development of the industrial, mining, energy and logistics sectors.
Duke University used to be a dream school for many Chinese students. Not anymore, after Megan Neely, an assistant professor, sent an email to all first-and second-year biostatistics graduate students recently telling them to "commit to using English 100 percent of the time".
US President Donald Trump hailed the two-day talks between China and the United States as having made "tremendous progress" in the two sides' efforts to find a solution to their trade dispute.
In March last year, Huang Jieli, then general manager of the hitch service department of Didi Chuxing, China's largest ride-hailing company, was invited to a wedding.
"Better late than never." That's what most people said when I interviewed them about their views on the overhaul of the ride-hailing industry, which was prompted by the murders of two young women by drivers employed by Didi Chuxing's hitch service.
Chengdu's government and tourism businesses are expecting more foreign tourists in the city for Chinese New Year after holding promotional events abroad.
With Spring Festival less than a week away, Zhang Cheng, a teacher from Shanghai's Pudong New Area, arranged his family reunion with just a few clicks on his mobile phone.
Wu Qingchun, who has worked as a live-in caregiver in Shanghai since 2014, earns 5,500 yuan ($812) a month.
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