'Beauty's' Beast Dan Stevens breaks out behind the effects
[2017-03-25 07:27]BEVERLY HILLS, California - When Dan Stevens met his Beauty and the Beast co-star Emma Watson in preproduction, she wanted to get to work analyzing the story and the themes. He just wanted to talk about her UN speech about gender inequality.
Pig manure helps green revolution revitalize degraded soil
[2017-03-18 07:27]With a postgraduate degree, Shen Haimei could have chosen to make a fortune doing a regular office job. Instead, she has chosen to work with manure and offer organic fertilizers to farmers, free of charge. Shen, 45, an overseas returnee, is pursuing green agriculture in Harbin city in northeast China's Heilongjiang province.
China's desert warrior defends Dunhuang
[2017-03-18 07:27]If it had not been for Fan Jinshi and her team, the world cultural heritage at Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in a remote Chinese desert might have long been destroyed by sand, weather or humans.
Winter sports begin Chinese 'spring'
[2017-03-18 07:27]For 76-year-old Zhang Baohua, skiing has been a daily routine during the snowy season in China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for six years.
Bumpy road out of poverty for isolated corner of Yunnan
[2017-03-11 10:01]Feng Weixiang spent two days traveling to Beijing from his home in a remote corner of southwest China's Yunnan province. The journey was one of the longest for the more than 2,000 members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, who have gathered in Beijing for the political advisory body's annual session.
Better career opportunities back in China trigger a wave of overseas returnees
[2017-03-11 09:53]80 percent of Chinese studying at overseas universities are returning to their homeland to fulfill their potential as professionals.
Learning to teach and learn outside the box
[2017-03-11 08:59]An experiment in Chinese education strives to break free from a public school model heavily geared toward passing exams.
Gold medalist Man Dandan's 16 years on snow steadily took her to the top
[2017-03-04 07:21]
"The past 16 years passed so fast. It was like a dream. I have never thought that I would have come this far," said Man Dandan.
Winter Asiad lays bare sport's uneven development
[2017-03-04 07:21]The Asian Winter Games in Sapporo didn't produce a new medal-winning country until the penultimate day of the weeklong event. Two decades after it was launched in Sapporo, the Asian version of the Winter Olympics remains dominated by an elite club of a few countries.
Skiing inspires a lifetime of passion
[2017-03-04 07:21]Mishina started the "Omotenashi Snow League" in 2012, an Nonprofit Organization (NPO) providing technical guidance of ski to the tourists from around the world, helping them get into the joy of ski at the soonest and the best way possible.
Accidental footing that led to another path
[2017-02-26 13:20]Was it chance or was it fate? The boy was just 4 years old and what delighted him most were his Shaolin training classes.
Carving out the revival of a lost art
[2017-02-25 07:11]Zhang Kuo, 58, forever associates his art with Chairman Mao Zedong.
