With the new UEFA Champions League on, the home of Li Jielin, a 29-year-old software engineer, has become a popular gathering place for his friends.
For many people, the hardest thing about winter is getting out of a warm bed on a cold morning. However, smart technology is helping to make life a little easier.
It's coming to midnight in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, and Liao Zhihai's restaurant is bustling. It's as though the business day has just started for the 25-year-old restaurateur. Amid much noisy cheer and excitement, Liao serves a plate of garlic-flavored crayfish and several bottles of beer to a bunch of merrymakers, probably workers socializing after a long day's late-shift work.
Zheng'an, a small county in Guizhou province of Southwest China, is the world's largest guitar manufacturing center from where locals export the instrument globally.
The allure of active night life is prompting consumers to spend 1,600 yuan ($228) on a return flight to and from certain tourist destinations in China just to savor popular late-night dishes.
11 pm. With light music playing in the background, I light a fragrant candle, drape my face with a moisturizing mask, and rub lotion on my body. This is no daily bedtime ritual but a wakeup call of sorts. For a busy 'day' awaits. The night's young, as they say - it's time to shop. Online, that is.
China is facing "significantly increasing challenges in terms of financial risk prevention and tackling", but given the country's sound economic fundamentals and its pre-emptive approach to controlling financial risks, the financial sector remains well under control - that's the key takeaway from two major developments last week.
Just as people were getting used to the co-existence of economic slowdown and high employment growth that marked the past decade in China, the monthly surveyed jobless rate at the national level rose twice this year, only to retreat later - but that was enough to spark discussions over the health of the labor market.
When you walk around the streets of Kyoto, it's not uncommon to bump into female tourists dressed up in traditional kimonos - in fact, it's fast becoming part of the scenery there.
Some people have conflicting feelings about plants. They like that touch of green, but they don't like the dirt and insects that often come with it.
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