By Hao Yingcan, People's Daily"Over ten thousand years ago, the volcano erupted, and a volcanic plateau was thus formed. Being weathered, the plateau was then covered by a thick layer of nutritious humus soil and then evolved into a unique type of field called 'shiban,' which literally means a rock

By Qi Zhiming, People's DailyWalking on a tree-lined sidewalk embellished with flower beds is definitely a pleasant experience that soothes your mood.Today, green and low-carbon modes of transport have become a choice for more and more Chinese people as they see the convenience of urban pedestrian a

By Li Zhongwen, Dou Hanyang, People's DailyLi Xiaoping, 62, opened a smart telemedicine program at a community health service center under the guidance of a health instructor, 20 seconds later, she was connected to a doctor on the other side of the screen and started the online consultation.Li, who

By Zhong Sheng, People's DailyThe Federal Reserve recently raised its benchmark interest rate by another 75 basis points, which marked the fifth time for the U.S. monetary policy decision maker to make interest rate hikes. These back-to-back increases are the biggest since early 1980s.The radical in

By Wang Wenzheng, People's DailyThe Chinese retail sector, especially the supermarket business, has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic since early 2020. However, convenience stores bucked the trend. The sales of Chinese convenience stores have maintained a rapid growth of more than 10 p

By Li Rui, People's DailyWicker weaving, a Chinese national intangible cultural heritage, has been well developed into an industry in Boxing county, Binzhou, east China's Shandong province, contributing to rural vitalization.The online sales of wicker products reported by the county's Wantou village

By Shi Ziqiang, People's DailyPride is always shown on the face of Fang Zhihong when it comes to the topic of Olympics, because the schools in Jingxiu district, Baoding, north China's Hebei province, where Fang serves as the head of the local education and sports bureau, have nurtured 12 Olympic and

By Lu Ya'nan, People's DailyThe Hangzhou West Railway Station, in the capital of China's Zhejiang province, was recently put into operation.Photovoltaic panels covering 15,000 square meters have been on the station roof, which are expected to generate 2.31 million kilowatt-hours of green power and r

By Wu Yuehui, People's DailyThe Mars rover Zhurong of China's first Mars exploration mission, Tianwen-1, touched down at its pre-selected landing area in Utopia Planitia, a vast Martian plain, and started its work on May 15, 2021.Utopia Planitia, the largest recognized impact basin on Mars, might ha

Korea ranked sixth in the global national power in 2022. A survey result showed that Korea was ranked 6th as a result of evaluating global national power. In the same evaluation last year, the Korea’s ranking rose two notches, beating France and Japan.U.S. news magazine US News reported that Korea r

By He Yin, People's DailyGlobal development was a topic receiving high attention at the general debate of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly that concluded at the UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 26.According to a recent report by the UN Development Program, over 90 percent of countries

By Gu Yekai, People's DailyThe total number of China's intellectual property rights (IPR) assistance service agencies has exceeded 1,300, said a recent report on the country's IPR protection assistance progress in 2021.More than 47,000 applications for IPR aid were handled across the country in 2021

By Zhu Jun, People's DailySept. 23 this year marked the fifth Chinese farmers' harvest festival. Celebration activities were held in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province and Changping district, Beijing, to share the joy of harvest."I had another bumper harvest this year from my nearly 7,000 m

By Zhong Sheng, People's DailyChina has decided to launch its domestic procedure to ratify the UN Firearms Protocol, announced the country at the general debate of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly on Sept. 24.The UN Firearms Protocol is one of the important protocols of the UN Convention

By Zhang Shuo, People's DailyThe Guangzhou campus of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), officially known as the HKUST (Guangzhou), opened its new semester this September. The new campus, sharing resources and complementary advantages with the HKUST, has upgraded the Hong Kon

By Zhang Yunhe, Zhu Jiaqi, People's DailyThe 19th China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit concluded in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Sept. 19. The four-day event, themed "Sharing RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) New O

By Li Nan, People's DailyChina's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security recently unveiled a new version of an occupational classification list, which designates 133 jobs as green professions, up from 127 in a 2015 version.The green professions include energy consumption instructor, heat eng

By Zhong Yin, People's DailyA recent study released by the Inter Region Economic Network, a leading independent African think tank, showed that China's cooperation with Africa was highly recognized by Africans for infrastructure construction, quick decision making, and timely completion of engineeri

By Wang Hao, People's DailyThe Yellow River, the second longest river in China, is hailed as the cradle of Chinese civilization. Over the past 20 years, China has intensified its efforts to restore ecology along the river, and the river that once dried up has seen no flow cutoff for 23 consecutive y

By Li Xueqin, People's DailyNing Yuan is an influencer that owns 9.67 million followers on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. His videos, mostly about popular science, such as why volcanoes are rekindled, the physiological structure of crawfish and why mosquitoes bite, teach audiences in a fun a