Helping mainland firms expand in Africa

Chinese companies and financial institutions are making remarkable contributions to fostering sustainable and eco-friendly economic growth in the Middle East and Africa, said Standard Chartered executives.

Yale's Chinese entrepreneurs build food biz as cultural symbol

NEW YORK - When Zhao Yong was pursuing his PhD at Yale University in the early 2010s, he was frustrated to learn that some local Chinese restaurants he frequented would no longer be there in the near future due to low profit margins and increasing labor costs.

Fujian leads seafood trade with Indonesia

FUZHOU - Lin Ming, 48, developed the habit of studying the map of Indonesia ever since he first set foot in the sprawling archipelago 20 years ago.

Lessons for the world in China's war on poverty

When it was announced in October that Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer had won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics for their experimental work in alleviating global poverty, I eagerly turned to reading their works, hoping to glean policy recommendations about steps governments should take.

Why mainland will be the globe's largest consumer market

In recent years, despite elevating economic instability around the world, China's economic performance has remained buoyant, with the market enjoying continued steady growth.

Mountain feats of the sisterhood

In Jiabi village it seems that the sisterhood holds up at least half the sky, and a fair amount below it as well.

Gold or glory

For the past 10 years, the International Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE), created by the Hurricane Group, gathers some 550,000 spectators across five days in Montpellier, France.

Good sport

Galloping across the grassland

Northern Inner Mongolia autonomous region has launched 10 winter routes in a bid to satisfy the nation's growing appetite for fun in the snow and ice.

Airbnb hosts intangible culture shows

Peng Tian is busy explaining how she made the dough models on display to an audience at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in mid-October.

Guangxi farmers go nuts for new cash crop

The green macadamia trees perching on the mountainous slopes surrounding Liufeng village in southern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region are helping the locals to boost their income.

The power of balance

Depending on the artist, "crossover" is a term that can have many different meanings. And if that artist happens to be Lin Chaoyang, it means that he wears many hats: photographer, painter, violinist, composer and teacher.