Chinese aircraft carrier forming all-weather combat capability with successful night takeoff and landing
China's first operational aircraft carrier, known as the Liaoning, recently completed its nighttime takeoff and landing mission, signaling that this carrier has initial all-weather capabilities, a key step toward the formation of practical capabilities for combat.
Controversial replica Sphinx returns to Hebei Province despite complaints from Egypt
The head and body of a once dismantled replica of the Great Sphinx of Giza were recently reunited on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei Province.
An increasing number of Chinese women want their boyfriends to be cute and submissive
Older Chinese women are feeding the fad of pursuing a new type of young, good-looking men who are obedient and tender.
China researching rising birth defects as ease on child limits contributes to older mothers
Researchers suspect genes and environment pollution cause birth deformations.
Japan cracks down on Chinese fansub groups that provide unauthorized subtitled anime
A group of Chinese enthusiasts of Japanese anime have found themselves caught up in a legal conundrum for translating Japanese manga and video games for Chinese fans.
Chinese recyclers struggle shifting to eco-friendly businesses since ban on foreign waste
China is at war with overseas waste following the ban on imported garbage in a drive to purify the environment.
Villagers, experts build cliffside homes in Beijing for endangered bee species
Hanging on a 100-meter-tall cliff in Beijing's Miyun district, more than 600 beehives provide homes for apis cerana - the eastern honey bee.
Authorities try to end China's age-old worship of top scorers in gaokao exams
For the first time, Chinese Minister of Education Chen Baosheng announced that the country will ban propagandizing gaokao zhuangyuan (the title given to the student with the highest score in the national college entrance examinations) after this year's test, which falls on June 7 and 8.
China's LGBT groups cautioned against Western political agenda
Every year on May 17, which is International Day against Homophobia, Cindy (pseudonym) and her peers at a Guangzhou-based LGBT group hold some sort of activity in the city, usually on university campuses.
As self-media booms in China, plagiarism has become a profitable business
“How can I stand that? Plagiarizing an author's story is like rubbing his soul on the ground,” Mao Li, a Shanghai-based writer, posted on her WeChat public account recently.
Foreign companies lose luster among Chinese graduates as local firms catch up in income, welfare
When there were two job offers – Chinese company Huawei and French enterprise Schneider Electric – given to Meng Lei for her choice, she firmly put her hands on the domestic one, Huawei, a leading information and communication technology (ICT) solutions provider in China.
Chinese police officer devotes himself to protecting country by dismantling 11,000 explosive devices
Over the past 18 years, Liu Chengjun – a police officer in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province – has successfully dismantled and disposed of more than 11,000 bombs ranging from rediscovered unexploded ordnance to improvised explosive devices.
When Sichuan's Qiang ethnic group moved away from earthquake rubble, they said goodbye to age-old traditions
When the sun is warm, 78-year-old Yang Shuisheng sits on a stone near his new home in Mucun village in Qionglai, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, sometimes for hours, just staring far off into the distance.
Behind the current wave of stereotypes against Northeasterners is a bitter story of China's rust belt
The Embassy of Sweden in Beijing might have been bewildered by growing demands from Chinese online users recently that they should discipline “Swedish people” who steal green beans and bananas in South China.
Online groups in China declare boycott of new movie celebrating Genghis Khan
A recently released movie about Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, has aroused resistance and boycotts from a vocal group of Han people who refuse to admit that Genghis Khan is a hero to them.
Elderly Chinese having hard time catching up with smartphone craze
Mobile payment apps might be China's latest greatest invention among young smartphone-savvy urbanites, but for many older generations of Chinese, such newfangled technology only serves to make their lives more confusing.
People from around China head to Sichuan Province to commemorate 10th anniversary of Wenchuan earthquake
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the devastating Wenchuan earthquake that rocked Southwest China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008, claiming more than 80,000 lives.
Chinese rapper receives boos and applause for lyrics 'we'll make Americans call us daddy'
“Chinese gala is so amazing; sooner or later, we will make Americans call us daddy,” Wang Yifan, a former Chinese student at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) who is taking a gap year to pursue a musical career, blurted out during his freestyle rap performance at a gala for Chinese students at PSU.