China is transforming itself from being a "Made in China" exporter of products to a "Designed in China" producer.
Gao Yuanyuan has become "Image Ambassador" for California Almonds. The 30-year-old actress says the brand chose her because of her beauty, success and healthy lifestyle.
A recent case on pollution that came under the spotlight involved the shoe-making giant, Timberland.
When Ma Jun stood on the banks of the mighty Yangtze River in 1994, he had little inkling of his future calling - saving China's rivers.
Twenty-five years ago, Megatrends was a must-read for any Chinese who was keen to know about the world - not just the world as it was, but the world that would be.
In 1995, Jingdezhen's kilns started shifting from coal to gas. In two years, the city dismantled and reconstructed more than 190 coal kilns and demolished most of the chimneys.
On Oct 8, 64 years after Galiya Zhang sacrificed her life during the liberation of Suifenhe near the border with Russia, a statue of the martyr was erected in the city's Peace Square.
Zeng Weihua was barely a teenager when he joined the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1970.
The dean of Peking University's School of Life Sciences, Rao Yi, has a reputation for speaking out about China's scientific institutions and is considered to be a leading reformist.
Renowned Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh was also a literary giant, say researchers who have scrutinized his vast body of correspondence - the topic of a new exhibition opening in Amsterdam on Friday.
When archaeologist Yuan Zhongyi was sent to Lintong, Shaanxi province, to excavate the site in July 1974, he had no idea he would spend his next 30 years there.
Ye Mingzi, granddaughter of veteran Chinese Communist general Ye Jianying, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1978 to 1983, just got married - on Sept 9.
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