Wood has lived in the southeastern Chinese Province of Fujian for three and a half years, now teaching digital media and AI at an international school in Xiamen. In early June, he completed a 3,000-kilometre RV journey across Xinjiang. What he brought back was not just images of snow-capped mountains and grasslands, but a conviction: the Xinjiang depicted in much of the Western media is not the one he saw.
"If you look back in the 20th century, a lot of the conservation thinking and leadership was more Western," Maginnis said, seated in the shade of a tree. "I'm convinced that we're seeing a real shift to global leadership coming from this region, and particularly from China." The shift, in the eyes of Maginnis, one of the architects of the global NbS concept, transcends money or measurable environmental improvements. More important is that "China is bringing in really much-needed new conceptual framings for how we will undertake conservation on a planet with nearly 10 billion people."
In this episode of China Q&A, we bring together Stewart Maginnis, deputy director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and Luo Ming, a research fellow at China's Ministry of Natural Resources, to explore how China's ancient idea of "harmony between humanity and nature" is being translated into real-world solutions for a planet in crisis.
Huang Xiaochi, a 73-year-old technology expert from Foshan in south China’s Guangdong Province, booked ticket No. 022 for a suborbital space tourism flight in Foshan on Saturday.
Once a common kitchen scrubber in Chinese households, the humble dried loofah sponge has become an export success, with products from a remote county in central China now reaching consumers in more than 50 countries.
Lau is counting the days to June 30, a deadline that offers survivors of Hong Kong's Wang Fuk Court fire tragedy a potential new start in life after about seven months in the wilderness.
Cao Qiuping checks a newly 3D-printed toy at a workshop in Beijing on May. They have received small orders—toys for a weekend market and customized figurines for a piano teachers students—but nothing steady. "Most people dont even know we exist, " Cao said.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese president, received a warm and grand welcome upon his arrival here Monday for a state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
At the 10th French Comics and Graphic Novels Festival in Beijing this May, two young women wearing glasses sat side by side, though they appeared to come from entirely different worlds.
On a weekday afternoon, Cai Yuqingyan waits outside a kindergarten gate. For most parents, the moment a child runs into their arms is entirely unremarkable. For Cai, it is a hard-won triumph.
Social media reels showing Chinese police officers patiently explaining how firearms work to curious children.Fueling much online discussion about the"sense of safety"in China.
Photos taken last week show plants of Sinojackia dolichocarpa—a rare tree species—in full bloom for the first time at the Hunan Botanical Garden in Changsha.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn].
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