By He Yong, People's DailySome 70 kilometers upstream the Liuyang River from downtown Liuyang, central China's Hunan province, there lies Xiaohe, a township surrounded by mountains and home to over 400 farmer-turned-painters.Zhan Qiuming is a quinquagenarian farmer-turned-painter from Xiaohe's Xinhe

By Liu Leyi, People’s DailyNowadays, facial scanning has replaced high-speed train tickets, and median barriers can be remotely controlled to adjust traffic flow. What's more, automated parking systems have freed drivers from parking and pulling out.Grasping the opportunities brought by digital econ

By Li Jie, People’s DailyProgress has been made by Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin and Chongqing, one year after the five leading cities were approved to develop international consumption centers cities.On Aug. 8, Aveda, a high-level manufacturer of hair care products owned by Estée Lauder Com

By Ji Fang, People's DailyMany venues for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have opened to the public to share the fruits of the Games with the people.They are expected to better strengthen China's national fitness campaigns as they gain more and more experiences in sustainable venue operation.The Na

By Du Haitao, People's DailyChina's foreign trade maintained double-digit growth in the first seven months of this year, despite the unfavorable external situation, intermittent COVID-19 impacts and other negative factors.The country's foreign trade volume reached 23.6 trillion yuan ($3.49 trillion)

By Li Xinping, Wang Yongzhan, People's DailyThe hottest days of the summer mark a time when peaches mature and hit the market.At 9:30 am, a box of peaches was sent to a Beijing consumer after a long air journey. The delivery took only less than 16 hours from a village in southwest China to the capit

By Qiao Yang, Wu Shaomin, People's DailyXiaoxinmatou village, located in Baodi district, north China's Tianjin municipality, is one of the first villages in the district to develop rural tourism.In ancient times, it had a pier where grains were transported, so the village is dubbed "millennium ancie

Chey Tae-won, chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), and concurrently chairman of the SK Group, said on Aug. 24, "Korea and China desperately need economic cooperation between entrepreneurs based on trust more than ever.""Uncertainty is growing in various areas such as econom

By Peng Xunwen, People's DailyGuochao - a fashion trend translated as "China-chic" has swept through Chinese consumers, especially the younger ones, as they are gaining more confidence in "made in China" products.The trend is seen in many aspects today, including music, art, construction, furniture,

By Li Ya'nan, People's DailyAt dusk in Yueliangdi village, cooking smoke rose high from several houses with greyish blue tiles and yellow walls, diffusing a scent of freshly cooked food. In the yards surrounding the houses, vegetables were growing prosperously. A few elderly villagers played traditi

By Liu Shuoyang, People's DailyHow does it feel to run on synthetic tracks paved on a beach wearing spikes and embracing the sea breeze?A track & field competition recently held on a beach in Pingtan, southeast China's Fujian province, would give you a perfect answer.On Aug. 14, the competition kick

By Huang Peizhao, People's Daily"Thanks to the 'king of forages' from China, livestock now have enough food to eat and the environment is getting better," said Abdu, a herdsman from Al-Idiny, a village 60 kilometers away from Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania.Lying in the outer peripheral area o

By Zhou Feiya, People's DailyA plain-Jane documentary jointly produced by CCTV.com and Shanghai Media Group (SMG) this summer surprisingly gained over 600 million online views, and topics related to the film made it into the lists of top trendy hashtags on social networking platforms nearly 100 time

Hyosung announced on August 17 that Hyosung TNC has succeeded in extracting spandex from corn and commercializing the world’s first bio-based spandex.Commercializing the world’s first bio-based spandex that reduces carbon emissions by 23% compared to conventional products.The ‘creora® bio-based’ spa

By Wang Ke, People's DailyTime-honored restaurants in China are closely following the trend of consumption upgrading, pursuing innovative development while maintaining their rich cultural heritage.Many of them have renewed business models, upgraded products and services and enhanced digitalization f

By Wang Hao, Yin Xiaoyu, People's DailyThe Huaihe River, between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, is an important watercourse in central and east China. It is also the first major river that has been comprehensively treated since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.Recently

By Zhu Jinyi, People's DailyOriginating in northwest China's Qinghai province, the Yellow River, known as China’s "Mother River" and the cradle of Chinese civilization, flows across nine provinces and autonomous regions.It accounts for only 2 percent of China's total water resources, but feeds 12 pe

By Yin Xiaoyu, People's Daily An industrial chain of the intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) industry featuring smart vehicles, intelligent roads, and flexible networks, has begun to take shape in Suzhou HSR New Town in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province.In the new town, which is of strategic sig

By Wang Wenzheng, People’s DailyAt an audiovisual intelligent science and technology exhibition center of Soundking Group Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of sound equipment based in Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang Province, domestically developed devices present an audio-visual feast to visitors.The center

By Feng Hua, Zhang Wei, People’s Daily China recently successfully launched a terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province.Named “Goumang,” the satellite is expected to provide remote sensing services and improve the effi