Editor's note: China Daily canvassed the opinions of a number of experts overseas about the new style of leadership promoted by Xi Jinping and his colleagues.
When 50,000-plus Chinese prospectors flocked to California during the mid-19th-century Gold Rush, makeshift communities sprang up seemingly overnight. They offered services, protection in numbers and familiar food to the new arrivals.
Sun Zhiqiang says the timing of China's robot spree is perfect for his business. As managing director of Risong Group, an automation company in Guangzhou, Guangdong province that provides robotic systems, Sun's company has cashed in on the robotics boom during the past two years. Although he declined to provide details, Sun revealed that the company is making almost 20 times the revenue it did when the business started 15 years ago.
While most of Liu Zelin's classmates are preparing their theses and searching for jobs, the 24-year-old is experiencing a radically different life in a country far from home.
Work as a volunteer has taken Lu Zhonghong, 45, to almost every major disaster site in China during recent years. After the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, he stayed in the devastated area for two months helping the locals rebuild their houses.
When Zhou Wan was recruited by the foreign affairs department of a well-known middle school in Chongqing, her parents were thrilled. After all, the job was a great start in the working life of the recent graduate of Sichuan International Studies University.
On an October morning, Huang Jianfeng, 34, drove down a rugged dirt road. He was on patrol along the border with Myanmar in Yunnan province.
Every year, Gao Yaowang, who is in charge of permanent residence registration in Dulongjiang, has to check on the 4,356 residents to ensure that no one fails to receive their government subsidy.
Zhu Zhansong was delighted to be given a cellphone and a computer by Zhao Yong, a soldier who recently left Dulongjiang Frontier Police Station after four years' service.
At midnight late on a November day, Feng Shilan, a 66-year-old woman with leukemia, sank into a coma. Although an ambulance was summoned immediately, the next five hours saw the elderly lady crisscrossing Beijing as paramedics desperately hunted for a hospital that could admit her.
Dr. Xiao Feng, an emergency room physician in the Departments of Emergency Medicine at Beijing United Family Hospital and the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Maryland in the US, talks about how the system functions to meet the needs of pre-hospital patients and communities.
Liang Feng'en is a wildlife ranger at the Suiyang Forestry Bureau in southeast Heilongjiang province.
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