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Q+A | Zhu Qingshi

[2012-11-21 08:10]

Editor's note: Zhu Qingshi is principal of the South University of Science and Technology and is also a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Mosques give women a major say

[2012-11-20 08:10]

It was still dark at 6:25 am on a late October morning in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province. Carefully gripping the handrail, Ma Guifang, 80, slowly climbed the stairs to the prayer hall on the second floor of Lulan women's mosque for morning prayers, her aching knees protesting at the ascent.

Texts and tolerance

[2012-11-20 08:10]

Ma Ying opened an envelope, took out a monthly magazine for Chinese Muslims and displayed it on a shelf along with the other publications at Lanzhou Muslim Library in Lanzhou, Gansu province. It's China's only library specifically for Muslims and has a collection of more than 30,000 books about Islam and its followers.

Migrant workers have help at hand

[2012-11-19 08:05]

Modern technology is not only changing the way people work, it is changing the way people, from the highest earners to the lowest, live.

A good friend on days of loneliness

[2012-11-19 08:05]

Ren Yanqiu, 25, is a drywall finisher in a construction team. He hails from Yueyang in Hunan province.

Straight Talk

[2012-11-19 08:05]

"It is nothing new for the younger generation of migrant workers, especially those from third- or forth-tier cities or counties, to use smartphones for everyday activities. Their phones are usually top brands and of high quality.

Land of opportunities that will be good for business

[2012-11-08 07:55]

They are not just talking shop. When business people speak about what they expect from an upcoming political event, they express not only what they want, but also, given the right conditions, what they think they can do.

High-minded group with an intelligent outlook

[2012-11-07 07:53]

Yang Bingyang is a busy woman. Her roles include Internet sensation, magazine columnist, author and television host. She also owns an online cosmetics shop. The 28-year-old Sichuan native is highly protective of her public image and seldom leaves home without applying makeup and often carries false eyelashes in case she's asked to pose for press photographers unexpectedly.

Farmers harvest a crop of poetry

[2012-11-06 08:16]

For 30 years, potato farmer Zhang Lian plowed his fields during the day and wrote poetry at night. In the harsh environment of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, writing was his only hope and provided a source of spiritual solace, said the 45-year-old.

The writer's hard life

[2012-11-06 08:16]

Zhang Xianliang was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in 1936. At the age of 19, he moved to the Ningxia Hui autonomous region and began to write. In 1957, he was sentenced to 20 years in a labor camp after publishing a poem critical of the authorities.

A decade of achievement

[2012-11-05 08:12]

The decade since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2002 has been an extraordinary period of growth. The world is undergoing extensive and profound changes, and the country is also going through a wide-ranging and deep transformation.

The decade that transformed China

[2012-11-05 08:12]

Living in a poverty-stricken village in Xiji county in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Yuan Zhixue, a 36-year-old farmer who dropped out of high school, wrote a novel describing the huge changes that have taken place in his life since 2002.