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An expert has called for increasing the retirement age as China becomes the only country in the world to have more than 200 million elderly people, Beijing Youth Daily reported.
A survey of university students shows that those who place more online orders for food seem more likely to feel depressed.
The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Jiangsu province reopened to the public in December after 27 months of repairs.In the more than three months since it reopened to the public after repairs, more than 70,000 vehicles a day on average have crossed the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Jiangsu province.
The practice of "996" overwork culture promoted by some tech giants in China has sparked robust debate among employees, employers and experts.
Dongying, where the Yellow River flows into Bohai Bay in Shandong province, may be the fastest-growing city in the world.
While on a visit to Beijing, Jurgen Klinsmann, the German football manager, pundit and former player, said he would not exclude the possibility of becoming the head coach of China’s national team.
Nowadays, cities, representing modern civilized ways of living and production, have been turned into bustling concrete jungles.
It's been 58 years since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to journey into space, heralding the beginning of the space era for mankind.
Tsinghua University made an announcement Wednesday that it will strictly punish academic dishonesty in serious cases, to further enforce academic integrity.The announcement made by the prestigious university, a top institution in China, detailed the revised punishments, ranging from warnings and demerits to probation and expulsion.
Parkinson's, once taken as "an old person's disease," is beginning to afflict the youth.
During a memorial ceremony at the Lingtai No 1 Middle School in remote Pingliang county in Northwest China's Gansu province, student Ren Zhixi said he would not fail to live up to the hopes of the late Wang Ya.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and as we take stock of life during spring, we can look forward to welcoming the 70th national day come autumn.
A study by National Bureau of Statistics has outlined a picture of residents in the capital that shows longer working hours, almost the same commuting time and a dramatic increase in time spent online compared to 10 years ago.
Colorful rooms, toys and imaginative cartoon pictures present a lively atmosphere at the Rainbow Home in Nanjing, capital of eastern China's Jiangsu province.
Goran Martinovic has been living in China for five years. As a former member of the Croatian national boxing team, he never imagined he'd one day live and work in China.
Wang Xudong, director of Dunhuang Academy, has become the new curator of the Palace Museum following the retirement of Shan Jixiang, who is known for helping the public see more of the museum and its treasures.
On a chilly late March morning, Phil Ham and his two sons got up early for the big day of a year on their 1,700-acre (688 hectares) family farm, located in Forsyth, the U.S. state of Georgia.
A British man has mastered the skills needed to perform Peking Opera, wowing the audience with his vivid performance of the Monkey King.
The city also plans to construct shopping centers near airports, and promote winter sports consumption along with the hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics, according to the city's development and reform commission.
Chang He used to always be on the run. As a deliveryman for China's leading food delivery platform, the uniformed 39-year-old would be seen rushing on his electric scooter with his signature helmet crisscrossing sidewalks.
For residents in Huojugou village in China's Changbai Mountains, a train whistle is a euphonious sound that will bring gurgling water to their kitchen and bathhouse.
Pang Haidong, a vet in the traditional Chinese veterinary medicine department of China Agricultural University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Beijing, performs acupuncture treatment to Anbei, a 2-year-old bichon frise dog, in January.
"It gives me joy, hope and growth. I'm so proud to be part of the BeiDou family," said Nada Laabidi, manager of the China-Arab States BDS/GNSS Center in the Tunisian capital of Tunis.
Seven firefighters were forced to jump off a cliff as fire burst from a burning forest in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
Women have become the main players in the Chinese consumer market and will continue making a crucial contribution to its growth, said Ren Xingzhou, former director of the Development Research Center of the State Council.
Educators from Jiangsu province are forging a new spirit at an experimental school on the plateau.Wang Qiming, a history teacher from Huai'an city, Jiangsu, said he experienced some friction when he taught his first class in 2015. "The students knew less than those in Jiangsu.
Legless veteran Ma Sanxiao has planted more than 17,000 trees on hills near his village in Hebei Province since 2000, turning a former wasteland into a green, lush landscape that he now wants to leave to future generations.
House slaves, aka "talking tools", accounted for 5 percent of the population, according to Zhang Yun, head of the history department at the China Tibetology Research Center in Beijing.If they weren't willing to endure the hardship, they would continue to receive punishment in the next life," he said. "Reform in Tibet had to come from the top.
The ministry's ban on coaching for Olympics-style math competitions was strictly enforced nationwide - in response to calls to ease the academic burden on children. Some parents and nearly all students attending coaching sessions breathed a sigh of relief.
Taking a step requires just one second for a typical person. But not for Gao Ziren, whose paralyzed left leg requires him to first move a crutch forward before his leg, and then balance himself.
