Topic 1-Traffic, Environment Biggest Concerns for Livable Cities: Survey According to a survey conducted by China Youth Daily, more than 75 percent of Chinese people consider commuting efficiency the most important factor in livable cities. This is t...
Topic 1-Hutong Gentrification: Modernization over Preservation Over the last decade, Beijing's hutong gentrification has transformed residential slums into boulevards and skyscrapers. This process is of urban renewal always comes with one side effect...
Topic 1-WeChat Official Accounts Compulsory Scan This week, WeChat announced that starting from July, users are required to scan the QR code every time they log in to their official accounts for security purposes. Compulsory scanning of QR codes for...
Topic 1-200 Cities Launch Trial Operation of Zero Price Difference of Drugs 200 cities in China have launched a trial operation that reduces drug prices for patients and raises the service charge of medical staff. As a result, some hospitals that use...
Topic 1-Class Offered to Students to Avoid Drowning Some primary and secondary schools in Bengbu, Anhui Province, have set up special classrooms for the purpose of drowning prevention, and added the drowning prevention education into the curriculum....
Topic 1-Poverty Funds Worth $130 Mln Wasted The country's top auditor reveals that more than 870 million yuan (or about 130.9 million US dollars) of China's poverty alleviation fund had been either left idle for more than a year or wasted. What's the...
Topic 1-Is Beijing Really Sinking? According The Guardian, a British newspaper, excessive pumping of groundwater is causing the geology under Beijing to collapse. The headline is Beijing sinking has attracted wide attention. Is that true? The Beijing...
Topic 1-Real Name Required for Further Use of Alipay and Wechat Payment According to the Central Bank, users of Alipay and WeChat are required to authenticate themselves with real names amongst other methods before July 1, in order to get a higher ba...
Topic 1-Coach Driver Criticized for Escaping without Saving Passengers after Accident A tour bus crashed and caught fire in Hunan Province. The accident has triggered great public fury, since the driver was first to escape, without trying to rescue t...
Topic 1-Chinese Craze of Buying Housing in Foreign Countries The Chinese has become the largest foreign buyers of US homes in 2015, as they pour billions into American housing market, seeking safe offshore assets. Britain, Australia, and Canada also...
Topic 1-The Incredible Shrinking Incomes of the Youth The youth are getting poorer. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, for fresh gradates, the growth of their average income is the lowest of all social groups. And with inflation in play,...
Topic 1-Illegal Blood Selling Industry The illegal blood selling industry chain is becoming more difficult to crack down, thanks to the prevalence of communication apps such as QQ and wechat which makes illegal blood sale more covert. Topic 2-Shangha...
Topic 1-Half of Online Users Get News through Social Media According to a report recently published by the University of Oxford, some 51 percent of all surveyed online users across 26 countries say they use social media as a source of news each week....
Topic 1-Publicizing of Info on Sex Offenders Who Target Minors Gains Support A new document issued by the judiciary in Cixi, East China's Zhejiang province, says information on sex offenders targeting minors will be made public. Will making the priva...
Topic1-Food Waste 2016 A new research program found that the food wasted in Chinese restaurants a year is about 8 million metric tons, which is equal to provision for 200 million people a year. Why do we bite off more than we can chew? Experts are ca...
