By Han Xin, People’s DailyAs high-quality network system has become the foundation of the digital economy in the Internet era, especially the 5G era, China is making great efforts to foster integrated application of 5G networks and 1,000M fiber optic networks.The coordinated development of the two t

By Zhu Jinyi, Liu Fawei, People’s DailyDubbed as the "kingdom of bamboos," China is home to over 800 of the world's 1,642 known species of bamboos. As of October, 2021, the country had planted over 100 million mu, or 6.67 million hectares of bamboos, with an annual bamboo production of around 40 mil

By Hong Yong, Wang Ke, People’s Daily"The air fryer is so nice. Little did I think that I could be so with-it," said Hu Yuxia, a woman from Tanjia village, Zhenjiang, east China's Jiangsu province, while cooking with the electric pot she just bought from the Shushuang appliance store in the township

By Ye Zi, Zhan Tian'ai, People’DailyThe 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP14) is expected to be held in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province from Nov. 5 to 13 this year.As Wuhan was awarded Wetland City Accreditation of the Ramsar Con

By Xing Xiaojun, People' DailyGuangming village sits on the top of the Cangshan Mountain in Yangbi Yi autonomous county, Dali Bai autonomous prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan province. People of five ethnic groups, including Yi, Han, Bai, Dai and Lisu, are living there.Covered by ancient walnut t

By Sun Haitian, People's DailyThey live on junks and boats. They build boat dwellings and make a living by fishing. They are the Tanka people, also known as the "gypsies of the sea."The Tanka people are Han Chinese. Living on seawater for generations, they have developed unique customs different fro

By Zhao Shan, People’s DailyNight tourism is getting trendy in China. In the first half of this year, ticket booking for night tours across China on online travel booking platform Ctrip recovered to 70 percent of the pre-pandemic level in 2019, and the number of people booking tickets in the recent

By Yuan Taoxiong, People's DailyThe Qinling Mountains, a natural boundary between China's north and south, is an important region of water conservation for the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins. It is home to rich biological resources.In recent years, northwest China’s Shaanxi province has taken

By He Yong, People's DailyChangsha, the capital of central China's Hunan province, is a "furnace" in midsummer, whose temperature may rise to 40 degrees Celsius. For Changsha citizens, the Dawei Mountain, some 130 km east of the metropolis, is an ideal place to escape the summer heat.The winding mou

By Bai Guangdi, People's DailyThe Rugao port in east China's Jiangsu province is seeing a busy scene these days. Containers are constantly hoisted by travelling bridge cranes and various types of cargo are being unloaded from gigantic vessels in the water.As of July 15, the Suzhong international ter

By Xu Yuyao, People's DailyLodro is a rural projectionist in Damxung county, which sits on an average altitude of 4,300 meters in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet autonomous region. In the past 37 years, Lodro has shown free movies to farmers and herdsmen in nearly 200 villages.A "movie tou

By Zheng Na, People's DailyThe world's first "gene bank" of ancient ceramics was recently inaugurated at the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum in Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi province.The "gene bank," co-built by the museum and multiple top Chinese universities and relevant organizations, will car

By Tian Hong, People's DailyPreparations for the fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE), which is expected to be held from Nov. 5 to 10 in Shanghai, are well underway. About 85 percent of the planned business exhibition space has been booked. The CIIE has not only brought exotic food, such as

By Sun Longfei, Zheng Yi, People's DailyThe niche sport of frisbee is currently in vogue across China.Ultimate Frisbee, often referred to simply as "Ultimate," is a common frisbee game that combines the characteristics of multiple team sports. Like in basketball, no travelling with the disc is allow

By Liu Fawei, People’s DailyHenan province, an economic powerhouse in central China located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, recently received 126 million yuan ($18.67 million) of ecological compensation from Shandong for its outstanding performance in improving the water quality

By Bai Ziwei, Lv Zhongzheng, People's DailyThe second China International Consumer Products Expo, also known as the Hainan Expo, recently concluded in Haikou, in south China's Hainan province.The six-day event received more than 280,000 visits, and increased exhibition space over nearly 20 percent f

By Wang Hao, People's DailyNorthwest China's Qinghai province is located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is the source of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Lancang River. Dubbed "the water tower of China," the province transmits more than 60 billion cubic meters of clean

By Ding Zhijun, People's DailyMining is getting intelligent in Ordos, a city dubbed "Coal Capital" in north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. The city, which is home to hundreds of billions of coals underground, produced 670 million tons of coals last year and has been the top coal producer

By Sun Guangyong, People's DailyYang Tao, a team leader of a China-aided digital television project in Timor-Leste, is a big draw in many rural villages of the island country in Southeast Asia.Since the project was launched last year, he has always been visiting local communities, sometimes the ones

By Xu Yuyao, People's Daily Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest in the West, is the world’s highest peak and one of the most famous snow-capped mountains. Thanks to enhanced efforts of ecological protection, Mount Qomolangma and its surrounding areas have seen better environmental conditio