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Amid growing environmental concerns, Beijing and other pilot cities are moving to ban or curb the use of snow-melting chemicals.
A new wave of stores is blending design, comfort, and dignity as China’s older consumers become impossible to ignore.
China’s top economic policy coordinator has urged the country to confront unavoidable challenges, while expressing confidence that investment and consumption growth will…
A crime writer explores why “young, tall, handsome” neighborhood security guards are hot property, and the distrust that can exist between residents and their protectors.
In 1993, philosophical and religious thinkers around the world convened to find a moral common ground for humanity. Now, in an increasingly fragmented world, Chinese phi…
Leptobrachella kungfu is the most recent discovery by a team of wildlife researchers in China’s southern Guangdong province, highlighting the region’s recent championing…
After losing her husband in a work accident, a woman in eastern China wins a landmark battle to use their frozen embryos and receive financial aid.
Children racing to climb smartwatch-based social hierarchies are turning to a smartwatch “gray market,” where they can buy artificial likes and boost their watch account…
From divorce battles to labor disputes, real-time legal advice is drawing huge audiences and reshaping how China’s young lawyers grow both their careers and their client…
This fall, multiple provinces have rolled out updated academic calendars to accommodate new holiday policies and local weather conditions, in the hope of encouraging fam…
Chinese food became a popular American dinner because of the pioneering work of two women who, in the middle of the 20th century, set out to teach the flavors of home to…
Inspired by its company’s grocery stores for people, the pet grocery store chain had offered freshly made pet meals and dining spaces for animals and their owners, but m…
Drones modified to hunt boars operate in a legal gray area, leading to illegal hunting and livestock theft and prompting calls for tighter regulations.
Created by Hainanese migrants in Southeast Asia, the brew returned with re-migrants in the 1950s. Now, a new generation is pushing it into the future.
A multi-decadelong government initiative to renovate the city’s old buildings and install indoor plumbing in all housing has brought an end to the era of chamber pots.
As more wild bears become reliant on a county landfill for food, conservationists warn of the potential impacts on the animals and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
The vast majority of Chinese urban homes are inside gated communities. Once, residents feared crime. But now, they fear something else.
As 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the nation’s highest judicial authority has publicly released eight “guiding cases…
China is placing greater emphasis on physical fitness in the high school entrance exam, giving rise to a new industry: home coaches delivered right to parents’ doors.
The demand for security guards is so high in Chinese cities that anyone can become one. As a result, the job has become a low-status last resort for migrant men.
After almost two decades on the line, Zhang Sai is turning factory life into literature and documenting the people and pressures of China’s vast factory workforce.
A post by a traveler who captured tourists crowding and taking photos of multiple Yi minority women on a train in southwestern China has sparked a heated debate online o…
In eastern China, a 71-year-old Hui Muslim master works to keep the 700-year-old tradition of bull wrestling from fading into history.
The country has publicly announced the creation of a new tokamak to advance its fusion energy research and clean energy ambitions, and invited international scientists t…
A new analysis of more than 4,000 married Chinese adults found male infidelity rises sharply when wives are more educated and earn less.
A desire for modernity, a contentious relationship with Western culture, and a calculated search for educational advantages have all produced a classical music scene awa…
The country’s top regulator has banned three categories of sexually suggestive content in group livestreams, making “vulgar” behavior used to solicit money and gifts ill…
Against all odds, Guinea’s $20 billion Simandou megaproject, including a 600-km railway, a new Atlantic port, multiple tunnels and bridges, and a twin set of mines, stun…
A patient has received a brain implant to help with hand function, the first BCI procedure billed through China’s new regulated pricing system.