There is an old Chinese proverb which says that traveling thousands of miles is better than reading thousands of books, which suggests that one can learn more from travel than sitting at home and reading related books. Little did I realize that these words would come true, when I got an opportunity to closely interact with sailors as part of my recent interviews with China COSCO Shipping Corp Ltd in Shanghai and Guangzhou of Guangdong province.
Central regulators are set to allow insurance companies to plow more funds into the Chinese A-share market, stabilizing it through long-term capital inflows.
China's more than $42-trillion financial sector is set for a new dawn as the country's top securities regulator reaffirmed its determination to the vision of further reform and opening-up of the lucrative sector.
China National Petroleum Corp, the country's biggest oil and gas company, said recently that it will ramp up clean energy production capacity and ensure that domestic natural gas accounts for more than 50 percent of its primary energy output at home by 2020.
Pirelli, the Italian tire maker, hopes to turn China into one of its biggest markets by expanding its manufacturing capacity in the country, cultivating the retail network and supplying more tires for China's fast-growing electric vehicle sector.
BASKERVILLE, the United States - John Boyd Junior, a fourth-generation farmer in the US state of Virginia, has only planted about one-fourth of his soybean crop so far this year. "I am part worried and part frustrated and I'm very disappointed," he said.
China's hydropower industry has transformed from a novice into a leader and industry pioneer.
If you are meeting Hiroshi Takahashi, chairman and president of Sony China Ltd, for the first time, the Japanese corporate luminary can surprise you with his fluent Chinese. But, given his working experience in China, it should come as no surprise.
It's 9:36 a.m. Fifty-five-year-old Gao Cuiling looks out of the window. She sees white clouds floating in the sky. She feels the sun is not so strong. And the breeze is gentle. She turns and smiles at her 2-year-old granddaughter: "Let's go downstairs!"
My heart skipped multiple beats during a recent visit to a zoo in Beijing with my two-year-old daughter. A dog was jumping and running in front of two Siberian tigers and an African lion.
When I was in university, I read From Baghdad, with Love. It is a story of a US military officer who picked up a stray dog while serving in Iraq and took it back home. I was moved as I read that the dog, named Lava, used to sleep beside the officer's little son and protect him, just like the military officer had protected the dog in Iraq.
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