At the end of March 2017, more than 2,000 restaurants and hotels in a popular tourist spot in the southwestern province of Yunnan were forced to close for at least a year. The shutdown was part of a local government campaign to improve water quality in Erhai Lake, the second-largest freshwater body in the province.
In November, on my way from the downtown to Shuanglang, a township in northeast Dali, the once bustling highway around Erhai Lake looked cold and cheerless. There were few cars or buses carrying tourists on the road. My cab driver, who comes from Dali's Xizhou township, told me vehicles used to jam the road, but now his work and income have halved compared with the peak period.
Hanuman the monkey god, one of the central characters in the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana, is considered a symbol of devotion. Like Hanuman, Ganesh Bahadur Damal was taught to be caring and giving as a young boy growing up in Nepal, where most people believe in Hinduism.
Literature professor Dai Jianye became famous online when video clips of his accented, humorous and insightful interpretations of ancient poems went viral on a popular short video platform, drawing nearly 2 million fans.
The price of soybeans did not see big fluctuations last year, despite the drastic fall of imports from the United States following a tariff increase, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Wednesday.
Shanghai will pioneer the use of demonstration cases to solve securities disputes, which have been rising rapidly in recent years, the Shanghai Financial Court announced on Wednesday.
Fifteen people were sentenced to jail and three companies were fined for fraud for illegally raising 43.4 billion yuan ($6.4 billion) by Shanghai No 1 People's Intermediate Court on Wednesday.
Yu Min, a prominent nuclear physicist known as the father of China's hydrogen bomb, died in Beijing on Wednesday at the age of 93.
The happy atmosphere of the upcoming Spring Festival will spread worldwide, thanks to a major cultural program called Happy Chinese New Year.
On a sunny winter afternoon, barbershop owner Huang Jinzhi stood on the balcony of her home 13 stories above the ground in Beijing's Shijingshan district and pointed at a group of iron ore storage towers and blast furnaces about 300 meters away.
It was during Thai politician Korn Dabbaransi's second meeting with Deng Xiaoping, in 1978, that he first learned of China's reform agenda.
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