Frank Hossack

Guangdong officials in 2011 created a special cooperation zone from four towns in Shanwei's Haifeng county. Shenzhen subsequently planned to relocate some 4,000 lower-end industrial projects there as it cleared polluting, energy-intensive and other lower-end industry from its own...

This day, 28 September, in 1952, Mongolian Prime Minister, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, led a delegation to visit China and became the first foreign head of government to do so since the founding of PRC. He received a high-level reception, with...

Construction workers repairing a road through the middle of Heyuan in 2015 stopped their machinery halfway through the job after uncovering 43 fossilised dinosaur eggs buried beneath the road, 19 of them still completely intact. 二零一五年,一队正在河源市中心修路的工人,在施工过程中意外挖出四十三枚恐龙蛋化石,不得不停下机械设备;其中十九枚保存完整。 Even the museum built to...

A Sino-British salvage team searching for a completely different, Dutch East India Company wreck stumbled instead in 1987 upon a Song dynasty merchant ship that had lain buried beneath the seabed off Yangjiang for more than 800 years. 一九八七年,一支本欲寻找荷兰东印度公司沉船的中英联合打捞队伍,却意外发现了一艘在阳江外海海床下埋藏逾八百年的宋代商船。 Archaeologists ultimately...

Shiseido has sued Aldi China, the product's manufacturer and an Aldi Shanghai store operator over unfair competition, arguing that a ¥24.9 primer copies the packaging of its own ¥540 product; the case is due in a Shanghai court on...

Historical tradition in Qingyuan links a single riverside gorge to four of the most consequential figures in the history of Chinese Buddhism, whose lives spanned more than two centuries of the religion's development in China and beyond. 清远当地的历史传说,将一处江畔峡谷,与中国佛教史上四位举足轻重的人物联系在一起,他们的一生,跨越了佛教在中国及其以外地区发展的两百余年。 Bodhidharma, traditionally regarded...

Ningbo overtook Dongguan as China's fourth-largest exporting city in 2024, shipping ¥945.5 billion of goods abroad against Dongguan's ¥889.7 billion, ending a run of more than a decade during which Dongguan had trailed only Shanghai, Shenzhen and Suzhou. 二零二四年,宁波超越东莞,成为中国出口总额第四大城市,当年出口额达九千四百五十五亿元,而东莞为八千八百九十七亿元;这也结束了东莞此前长达十余年、仅次于上海、深圳与苏州的出口排名。 Dongguan was...

Sun Yat-sen registered at a hotel in Japan in 1897 under a Japanese name a friend invented to protect him from the authorities hunting him; the surname on that hotel register, Nakayama, became his adopted name Zhongshan, and later...