Dating back as far as the early Qing Dynasty, Lanzhou Guzi, the local ballad of Lanzhou, the capital of northwest China's Gansu province, has been passed on from mouth to mouth for about 400 years. Going through ups and downs, this art form has survi...
The place to meet Jana Danica is at the Lanzhou University library. Jana has been studying Chinese for 6 and half years, and earned a bachelor's degree in sinology. For the last 2 and half years she's been working on an environmental law program taug...
The media center of China's upcoming two political sessions has now gone into operation. The first Sessions of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, or the CPPCC and the 12th National People's Congress, or the NPC are set to op...
Chinese oil giant CNOOC have officially wrapped up the 15 billion US dollar takeover of Canadian oil and gas firm Nexen. This comes more than 7-months after the takeover was first announced. Nexen shareholders will receive 27.5 dollars per share in c...
China's Health Minister, Chen Zhu, has been praising the country's medical reform in the past years, but also says there are more challenges and objectives to be met in the following years. CRI's Alex Blucher brings more details. A nurse takes care o...
China is frequently hit by earthquake. Now it's planning to build a national earthquake monitoring and warning system within five years to reduce casualties and economic losses. An official from the administration said while the system would not be a...
China's sex ratio is quite worrying nowadays. According to census data, China's sex ratio at birth was 108 males to every 100 females in the early 1980s, only slightly above the natural rate of 103 to 107. In 2000 the ratio was 116.9 males to 100 fem...
The local government in Central China's Zhoukou city forcibly flattened over two million rural tombs over the last year in order to increase arable land. By the end of this Spring Festival, more than half of those flattened tombs were restored by loc...
Figures from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security reveal that this year, an estimated 25 million people will be looking for jobs. The employment market pressure is still big. In some labor intensive industry concentrated areas, like Gu...
In a nationwide survey by the China Dining Industry Association, high-end restaurants whose income mainly comes from business dinners fell by about 20 percent during the Spring Festival period. Liu Wei, a manager of a high-end restaurant in Beijing,...
South Korean President-elect Park Geun-hye met with US and South Korean army officials on Friday to ascertain her country's military readiness following North Korea's recent nuclear test. The South Korean government and I will not accept North Korea'...
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have agreed that any international responses to North Korea's recent nuclear test should be conducive to regional peace and stability. After a meeting in Moscow, the forei...
Residents of Jerusalem swarmed into the city's Old Train Station compound on the first day of this year's 'Ice City' Festival to embrace the long-awaited ice world. Three 12-year-old girls Einav, Yael and Maayan enjoy themselves on an ice slide featu...
Ben Affleck's film 'Argo' tells the story of the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979 and the resulting operation to get US diplomatic staff out of the country. Many Hollywood films like 'Argo' though are not screened in cinemas in Iran but p...
The recent Chinese Spring Festival, a seven-day-holiday, was a golden period for outbound travel as well as a good start to this year's expected growth in the travel industry. Zhou Jingnan has some insights. A survey by the China Tourism Academy indi...
