China aims to boost rural entrepreneurship and take up farming as a decent profession, as it steps up efforts to invigorate its vast countryside.
Douyin, a Chinese app that publishes short videos, announced it will go global this year and cover markets like Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.
Despite his reluctance to leave his two-month-old son, Chinese farmer Duan Lin flew to Tajikistan in March.
In 2017, after 11 years of study in the United States, a period topped by a master's in computer science from Harvard University, Tang Yuhan, 26, decided to return to homeland China.
GUANGZHOU - Ma Jieyao, the owner of a small stall in a wholesale market for garments in the city of Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province, didn't speak any English two months ago.
Listed large and medium-sized Chinese commercial banks are trying hard to foster new drivers of growth.
The recent move by China's top banking regulator to lower provisioning requirements will encourage commercial banks to classify nonperforming loans, or NPLs, more accurately.
Lei Ting, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, has been flying back and forth between Beijing and the US this past year.
Some years ago, Xu Zaiji moved out from his old family home in Putang village in East China's Jiangxi province that had been passed down from generation to generation for about 400 years to an apartment in a nearby city, part of a trend that left the village almost empty. In March, the 66-year-old moved back to his old house after its renovation. This time, Xu is part of a growing trend in which villagers are renovating their dilapidated old houses and returning to the village where they grew up.
With three counties housing hundreds of traditional villages starting renovation projects in March, officials and experts say China is now ushering in a new era for protection of its traditional villages.
Chen Yiwei says that, growing up, she felt different to most girls because she was more interested in cerebral, stimulating puzzles than fashion or cosmetics.
For Xinglai, the operator of the first 4-D "death experience" game in Shanghai, to be, or not to be, is no longer the question.
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