Lessons for the world in China's war on poverty

When it was announced in October that Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer had won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics for their experimental work in alleviating global poverty, I eagerly turned to reading their works, hoping to glean policy recommendations about steps governments should take.

Why mainland will be the globe's largest consumer market

In recent years, despite elevating economic instability around the world, China's economic performance has remained buoyant, with the market enjoying continued steady growth.

Mountain feats of the sisterhood

In Jiabi village it seems that the sisterhood holds up at least half the sky, and a fair amount below it as well.

Gold or glory

For the past 10 years, the International Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE), created by the Hurricane Group, gathers some 550,000 spectators across five days in Montpellier, France.

Good sport

Galloping across the grassland

Northern Inner Mongolia autonomous region has launched 10 winter routes in a bid to satisfy the nation's growing appetite for fun in the snow and ice.

Airbnb hosts intangible culture shows

Peng Tian is busy explaining how she made the dough models on display to an audience at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in mid-October.

Guangxi farmers go nuts for new cash crop

The green macadamia trees perching on the mountainous slopes surrounding Liufeng village in southern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region are helping the locals to boost their income.

The power of balance

Depending on the artist, "crossover" is a term that can have many different meanings. And if that artist happens to be Lin Chaoyang, it means that he wears many hats: photographer, painter, violinist, composer and teacher.

Art exhibits show a sense of sensibility

Simon Lee, founder and director of the London-based Simon Lee Gallery, said that he has the Chinese luck numbers in mind when he selected works to take to the Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, held between Nov 7 and 10 at the Shanghai Exhibition Center.

Expect the unexpected

In 2010, a trio of Beijing-based indie-folk singer-songwriters formed the Mayouyeah label.

Queens of the catwalk

As the generation of the first baby boom shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, a growing number of retirees aged around 60 are enjoying their post-retirement life in pursuit of model dreams that were hardly achieved when they were young.