Liu Jinwen, a retired primary school teacher now living in Beijing's Sijiqing Nursing Home, never expected she would have a visit from the Chinese president. But she did, and it changed her life.
I thought nursing homes were always filled with elders with gray-white hair and wrinkled faces who walk with a stagger and wear plain clothes with no bright colors. But my mind changed after I arrived at Sijiqing Nursing Home in Beijing's Haidian district.
With a record-high number of trips made during the past eight days, the National Day holiday, one of the most important times of a year in China, has inspired big changes in the way people travel.
Despite tighter global cash liquidity, China's monetary authority feels more confident in its decision to fine-tune rules making it easier for some commercial banks to lend to small businesses and rural borrowers, thanks in part to strong expectations for the economy, a senior central bank official told China Daily in an exclusive interview.
The World Solar Challenge began on Sunday with 42 cars crossing Australia's tropical north to its southern shores, a grueling 3,000-kilometer race through the outback.
Xi's stops at a pub, soccer club made him a man of the people
There's a story that's been told and retold so many times that it was probably true in some form or another at some point in time. I heard it like this:
Item from Oct 9, 1996, in China Daily: Doctors at the Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital diagnose a patient in Zhejiang province using information received via a computer network. Since the hospital opened the remote diagnosis center, doctors has successfully diagnosed some 300 patients in the Tibet and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions and Henan province.
Almost two years ago, President Xi Jinping made a historic state visit to the United Kingdom, heralding a "Golden Era" for China-UK relations.
President Xi Jinping has a good understanding of big data and its social impact, said a top London scientist who met him during Xi's historic state visit to the United Kingdom in 2015.
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