China is improving the working environment for police officers who sometimes face 'violent resistance' over mundane offenses
"I am also a grassroots auxiliary police officer," a netizen named DX commented. "In such cases, I will assist the injured person immediately to avoid the occurrence of a second accident. There are many such good police in our country. News like this can change the minds of those who demonize us on the internet."
Signs of economic progress and a more open attitude are everywhere in North Korean capital
Any photo of Pyongyang highlighting leaders' portraits and slogans will earn you a good number of "likes" if you post on your social media. North Korea draws Chinese people's curiosity by reminding them of the old days.
Healthy Chinese elderly people are encouraged to work after retirement
At seven o'clock on a sunny morning this month, 68-year-old Tang Guangzhi put on his worn out security uniform and went to work as a security guard captain at the Beijing International Flower Port in a northeastern suburb of Beijing. His swarthy face revealed his long hours in the sun.
North Korean factory aims to compete with Chanel and Shiseido on quality and safety
Wandering on the streets of Pyongyang, it is not hard to notice that women in the capital city of North Korea care about their dress and appearance a lot despite the country's underdeveloped economy.
China carries out air raid drills across the nation
On Saturday, when China welcomed its 18th Nationwide National Defense Education Day, several provincial regions across the country sounded air raid sirens to improve people's awareness of national defense.
Vocational training workshops open around the world to prepare local people to work for Chinese companies
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on September 3 at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) that China will set up 10 Luban Workshops in Africa to offer vocational training for young Africans, the Xinhua News Agency reported. Tianjin's educational authority proposed the creation of the workshops, and they have been established in five countries along the route of Belt and Road initiative, including Thailand, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and the United Kingdom. The workshops aim to provide vocational training to local personnel so they can work at Chinese enterprises.
High hopes still placed on AI industry but Chinese investors are becoming more rational
Huang Wei's son sleeps every night with an AI robot developed by Huang. The young boy plays with it every morning when he wakes up, because Huang and his wife are both very busy.
Viral video of feminine-looking male stars causes Chinese to debate what it means to be a man
A heated debate on China's new feminine-looking male celebrities has flooded Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform, as the country's State broadcaster aired four young male singers in its television special First Class of the New Semester on September 1.
Artificial intelligence takes a leading role in battle against online pornography
A scantily clad female in sexy lingerie was jiggling her breasts on a Chinese live streaming app, a scenario which was immediately identified by an AI porn-identification system. The system promptly raised the alarm for a manual check by a human to decide whether to close the account immediately.
Fun facts and surprising numbers help explain China's 40 years of reform and opening-up
China's reform and opening-up policy has brought enormous changes to every aspect of the country. Aside from data on the rapid economic growth in the past four decades, statistics from other fields, especially religion and population, also reflect changes in the Chinese society.
Senior citizens among highest-risk groups for contracting HIV and AIDS, usually through sexual contact
A 2016 report by the Xinhua News Agency said about 13,000 Chinese males aged above 60 were diagnosed as living with HIV or AIDS in the first nine months of 2016, 3.6 times the number in 2010, and nearly six times the number of those aged 15 to 24.
China gradually shifts from factory for Japan to its main market, economic competitor
For most people born in the 1980s in China, Japanese goods were a part of their life. As young children, they may remember a green Sharp refrigerator placed in the living room next to a 29-inch Sony color TV set on which they watched cartoons during every summer holiday.
Lab for experimenting on rats opens in Guangdong
A group of animals live in an apartment worth 100,000 yuan ($14,643) per square meter in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong Province, and drink water that goes through three levels of filtration. People who want to meet with these animals need to pass quarantine.
Demand for Chinese-speaking nannies rises as US elites scramble to teach Putonghua to their young children
Jordan Van Voast, an American living in Seattle, shelled the dried bean pods harvested from his garden and placed the seeds one by one into a bowl, counting in Chinese, "yi er san," meaning "1, 2, 3." A 3-year-old boy repeated after him.
Patriotism helps the caretakers of South China Sea navigation buoys endure loneliness and danger
Before starting his job taking care of the navigation beacons on Yongxing Island of Sansha, 25-year-old Lu Yuanming imaged the place as an attractive spot like Maldives. But his life of working and living in China's southernmost region is not what he had imagined at all.
Volunteer Chinese teacher bicycles 16,000 kilometers back home
For Yuan Jianglei, two years as a volunteer teaching Chinese in Benin's Confucius Institute wasn't enough time for him to explore Africa.
Firefighters from across nation come to the rescue after reservoir discharges
The national highway G308 across Shouguang in East China's Shandong Province looks unusually desolate after the area was recently hit by the most severe flooding in over 40 years. The road, commonly used to transport the city's vegetables, is now blocked off to allow villagers to lay out and dry their crops.
GQ article refuted after implying Chinese government is behind theft of treasures overseas
By connecting a series of cultural relic thefts that happened in European museums together and using leading questions, the New York-based men's magazine GQ implied in an article that the Chinese government is a "buyer of the stolen cultural relics."