All in all 2016 has been a great year for us. I am always grateful that we are a cross-cultural family, living with people from all kinds of backgrounds. I hope I never stop learning from others.
A Frenchman, whose Chinese name is Ding Yimu, has worked as an assistant to the head of Hehong village in Ninghai county of Ningbo, Zhejiang province, for one year, and his main job is to promote tourism.
Since it provides myriad possibilities and opportunities, it is little wonder that in the 21st century it is the China Dream that everyone is talking about.
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The project, which features dozens of important figures, including politicians, financiers, media moguls and diplomats, confronts the audience with the question of what is power and how does one think about it.
German linguist Patrick Kuehnel says he is impressed with China's efforts in boosting cross-cultural links with the rest of the world.
Sean Scully, 71, is fighting the weariness that an international artist has to face today because of extensive travel in a globalized art world.
Nobel-winning biologist Craig Mello tells Liu Xiangrui that the stage is set for China to play a leading role in world science.
Chinese management styles are evolving to tackle complexity and change, says Austrian guru Fredmund Malik.
Mohamed Noah performs Wing Tsun moves during a class at Egypt Wing Tsun Academy, Cairo, Egypt on March 1, 2016.
A Swiss water expert's long collaboration with his Chinese counterparts yields results. Liu Xiangrui reports.
Former Egyptian ambassador Mahmoud Allam shares his impressions of China via interaction with people in Beijing, Shenzhen and Chengdu.
American engineer reluctantly takes up a job at a Chinese company and is happily surprised, report Zhang Li in Nanning and Liu Xiangrui in Beijing.
Philip Kuhn, a preeminent British-born American historian on Chinese history, died on Monday. He was 82.
When local colleagues jokingly call him "a real friend of Chinese women", Alfred Otto Mueck smiles and says it is an honor to help Chinese women resolve their health issues.
Pier Luigi Pizzi, Italian opera director, and set and costume designer, is in Beijing, working an elaborate new production of La Gioconda, which will be staged at the NCPA in Beijing Jan 27-31.
Klaus Filter, 83, a German designer of rowing shells, helped transform a local workshop into a global company. Liu Xiangrui reports in Fuyang, Zhejiang province.
When Sino-Egyptian economic relations are further enhanced by the opening of the New Suez Canal and the Belt and Road Initiative, many Egyptians will be making their livings in China, and using their personal backgrounds to contribute to a more consolidated people-to-people contact.
Levenson shared with us his take on contemporary Chinese art and what it means to the world. He also gave suggestions on how contemporary Chinese art can be seen, heard and felt by a global audience.
Julien Gelas, French composer and pianist, is bringing his very own genre of music to Beijing audiences next month at his piano recital entitled L'éclaircie.
In the past decade, 72-year-old American neurophysiologist Mark Hallett has flown regularly to China to work with his Chinese counterparts to expand and improve treatments of movement disorders and Parkinson's disease.
Italian engineer Bruno Briseghella is building human relationships in Fuzhou. Bruno Briseghella likes to build bridges-both physical ones and those between people.
Vladimir Matychenkov, a soil expert from Russia, is digging up fields in Central China for sustainable solutions.
A Frenchman in a coastal Chinese city has combined his zeal for work with passion for life, writes Raymond Zhou.