FTA Advances Fruitful China, ROK Cooperation

Chinese and Republic of Korea (ROK)companies are set to benefit from an even better business environment as the two countries vowed closer ties during a visit by Premier Li Keqiang to ROK, which ...

Chinese, French Presidents Reach Deal on Climate Change

Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) meets visiting French counterpart Francois Hollande in Beijing on November 2 (XINHUA) 　　President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Francois Holl...

A Win-Win for Britain and China

President Xi Jinping has returned home after an impressively smooth state visit to the UK. The ceremonial part of the visit was flawlessly conducted--this is one thing that the British do r...

Are Chinese Seniors Ready for Nursing Home Care?

(LI SHIGONG) 　　Qian Liqun, a 76-year-old retired professor at Peking University, spurred much controversy recently after he sold his apartment in downtown Beijing and moved into a nursing...

Market Watch NO. 45, 2015

0.1% 　　The year-on-year profit decline in September in China's industrial firms that have a principal business revenue of more than 20 million yuan ($3.15 million) a year, narrowing from an 8....

Writing Its Own Prescription

Businessmen select medicinal herbs in Bozhou, Anhui ProvinceKangmei Chinese Medicine City in Bozhou, Anhui Province (WANG ZHE) 　　With its distinctive curative properties, traditional Chin...

Bright Spot

Tourists enjoy themselves in a sunflower field in Nanliu Village in Guangping County, Hebei Province, on June 22 (XINHUA) 　　In the peak autumn travel season, while nearly 2.8 million tour...

Building the Silk Road With Central & Eastern Europe

The Chinese Government brought in more than 50 young delegates from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries for a multilateral forum to further promote ties with the CEE region and China's B...

A Signal to Accelerate Financial Reform

The market speculated about future changes in China's macroeconomic policies after the National Bureau of Statistics released this year's third-quarter economic growth rate, which slowed to 6.9 p...

A Date With Durga

The festival ends each year with sindur khela , when women smear each other with vermilion, a custom deeply woven into Bengali culture (COURTESY OF KUNAL SINHA) 　　Hindus' biggest festival...