The city of Danzhou governs no districts at all, only towns, farms and a free-trade zone, yet it is Hainan's largest city by land and its second economy, the place where the exiled poet Su Dongpo taught, and the...
Until 2001 this city was called Tongshi, whose second character had a local pronunciation the dictionary did not recognise, which troubled its post, so it took the name of the mountain beside it, the highest on Hainan at 1,867...
China is giving its fastest trains a letter of their own. A new X prefix, read xīn (新, "new"), will mark Fuxing bullet trains able to exceed 350 km/h, as national train numbers are rewritten in two batches before...
China’s human brain banks are still struggling to attract donors more than a decade after the first facilities opened, according to neuroscientist Duan Shumin. The shortage is becoming more urgent as researchers find that dementia is often more complicated...
When it comes to English-language education on China, there are "international schools" and "international-style schools", with the former accepting foreign passport holders only, or the children thereof. The Nanjinger's list breaks down the most reputable names in the field.
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