High Party official: Books can help define happiness

GUANGZHOU - What are officials in Guangdong reading these days?

All in the Games

If you ask any Chinese person what their nation's proudest sporting achievement has been over the past 30 years, Olympic success will be the most likely answer. Ever since Chinese athletes marched into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum at the opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Games to make their Olympic debut, China has been going all out in an effort to reach new milestones on the world's premier sporting stage. China's passion for glory and improvement reflects the official Olympic motto: Swifter, Higher and Stronger. Never has a society attached so much ambition, desire and identity to the Olympics as the Chinese, commented NBC anchor Jim Lampley in the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Although China's first world title dates back to 1961, when table tennis player Rong Guotuan won the men's singles event at the World Championships, it is the Olympic Games that best showcase the nation's international sporting success.

How the Olympic spirit made China a better place

Expert's take | Deng Yaping

Experience of a lifetime

Byline | Matt Hodges

City has a medal-winning investment environment

Yantai, well-known for its natural beauty, food and wine, also has a growing marine economy

Five years of remarkable achievements

East China's Shandong province has achieved remarkable progress in improving its economy and people's livelihoods during the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010) period.

Province eyes 10 percent growth in people's incomes

During the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), Shandong will intensify its efforts to update its economic structure and development mode.

Weihai thrives through ocean abundance

Local officials in Weihai, a city with 2.5 million people on the east of the Shandong Peninsula, have set an ambitious goal to become the spearhead in Shandong's expanding marine economy.

A culinary surprise on the Bund

One's first experience with Mr & Mrs Bund is like opening a jack-in-the-box - you never exactly what is going to pop out and thrill you until the moment it's revealed. In the case of this restaurant, surprises come in a jar of jumbo shrimp or a bag of black cod, among many others.

IN BRIEF

Red redux

My childhood dream was to meet Chairman Mao, says Chinese Canadian Wang Shuibo, now 48.

Milestones: 1980

Hua Guofengresigns post as premier in August