With China at the forefront of digital technologies and social media, Johnson & Johnson, the US-based healthcare giant, has adapted these trends to its new recruitment methodology to compete for talent and drive its growth in the country.
XIAMEN - Advancing with a more localized development strategy, foreign firms are expanding investment in the Chinese market on a strong belief in the country's future.
Franck Lebouchard, 53, CEO of Devialet, a French acoustic engineering technology specialist that is known for its audio products like high-end speakers, sometimes feels overwhelmed by the sheer size of the China market.
"To some extent all my work is based on Japanese art," Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother on July 15, 1888.
Yukiko Takahashi was wearing a goose yellow kimono when I met her in a Beijing hotel lobby recently, and as I looked she seemed like just the kind of person who would appreciate the beauties of Chinese porcelain, calligraphy, pot culture and seal carving.
When dancer-choreographer Wang Yabin was 25 years old, she achieved fame by performing as the dance double for Zhang Ziyi in Chinese film director Zhang Yimou's 2003 film, House of Flying Daggers, and by playing the lead character in the Chinese TV drama, The Love Story of the Village.
When Polish director Grzegorz Bral and Song of the Goat Theatre made their debut in China by performing Portraits of the Cherry Orchard, during the Wuzhen Theater Festival in 2015 in the namesake ancient town located in Zhejiang province, audiences were immersed in the atmosphere created by the director. Combining a story based on Anton Chekhov's drama, The Cherry Orchard, Bral brought characters alive onstage with music and dance. The work was staged for three consecutive nights and became one of the surprise hits of 2015's Wuzhen Theater Festival.
Pan, a 73-year-old illiterate female embroidery worker who lives in a mountainous area of Guizhou province, earned 520,000 yuan ($74,122) in 2018, while the average annual salary for an employee in a Chinese privately-owned company was 49,575 yuan, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
NEW YORK - Justin Scholar, a New Jersey native, has earned his name as the "Chinese instruments guy" at the annual Philadelphia Folk Festival as he brings a Chinese instrument every year to let people try.
Seven-year-old Zhang Qingyu recently bid farewell to her teachers and classmates in Hefei, Anhui province, and transferred to Huangjian Central Primary School in Xiuning county, in Huangshan city, more than 400 kilometers away.
At a time of increasing trade uncertainties, the Hongqiao International Economic Forum - a platform connecting leaders from different industries during the China International Import Expo - will improve understanding and even offer solutions for the challenges facing a slowing global economy.
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