The Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, falls on Feb. 10th this year. Hundreds of millions of people will embark on a journey for family reunion, putting huge pressure on the country's transportation networks. Among them, the railways will hand...
It's a tradition that as the Chinese New Year approaches, companies all over the country hold year-end parties. Most of them feature a banquet, various programs performed by staff members and a raffle with precious prizes. But in response to the cent...
Chinese netizens have launched an online campaign against wasting food and called on people to take their leftovers home after banquets as well as other measures to curb such waste. Dubbed eating up your dishes, the move not only echoes the central g...
A national organ donation network is set to be launched in China next month. That's according to the Health Ministry who have been operating a pilot donation scheme, along with the Red Cross Society of China, in 16 cities. Vice Health Minister Huang...
The capital will raise its automobile-emission standards on Friday, making them the strictest in the nation. The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau said the move is expected to reduce auto pollution by 40 percent to better improve the hazardous...
What you have just heard is Thierry Joulin from France singing the northern Shaanxi folk song Nanniwan. Singers of these songs have breathed new life into this traditional Chinese folk music by spreading the scent of the earth in their lyrics to west...
China's Ministry of Environmental Protection is warning the air across much of northern China is going to remain seriously polluted through the night. The smog shrouding northern and eastern China has been forcing highway closures and flight cancella...
Alzheimer's disease or AD is an illness that seriously affects senior citizens. It causes memory loss, and patients may even gradually lose some of their basic physical abilities. But now researchers in the U.S. are using technology to reduce memory...
Have you ever bought a meal on the high-speed railway? Reports say a package meal on the high-speed trains sell for about 45 yuan, roughly 7 dollars. But what you get is only four slices of beef, an egg, a small, cold vegetable, and some rice. Usuall...
Heavy air pollution recently hit many places in north China. It inspired a heated debate over whether officials should ban the use of fireworks, which is a tradition of Lunar New Year celebrations. Bloggers have responded with much divergence on the...
Who to bring back home for the Spring Festival dinner? That's the question many single urbanites struggle with before they head back home for the Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, which falls on February 10th this year. As young people go h...
In Guangzhou city, the capital of Guangdong Province, the tradition of local enterprises is to hold a banquet to celebrate the beginning of the New Year. But this year, many companies have cancelled their banquet. One staff member at a local Guangzho...
A report on the elderly here in China is suggesting the government should do more to help improve the wellbeing of the country's rapidly growing aging population. The China Research Center on Aging has stressed the need to increase government spendin...
The popularity of Chinese calligraphy has been dwindling. With technological advances, many young people no longer write words by hand but use keyboards. Many now struggle to write sentences on paper let alone attempt the complexities of calligraphy....
In his last ever government work report, Wen Jiabao is warning China's development model is facing problems which are unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable. The Chinese premier listed several issues in the development of the world's second larg...
