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Homecoming, redefined. After 65 years, dressed to the nines, with the red carpet rolled out, gongs and drums pounding, and kneeling down before a portrait of his deceased parents, this long gone Wuxinese wept bitterly. “Mum, Dad, your son has...

With economic and social development, so too does the public pay attention to its health, becoming more willing to participate in sports events. And as March beckons, Marathon season is set to begin in China. But who are we...

Chinese simply must go home for Spring Festival, like migratory birdlife. One man this year, however, made the most monumental effort, travelling the equivalent of the bird with the longest migration of all. And he started from literally the...

Financial data emerging in the past few days paints a picture of the CEO of graphics chip maker Nvidia, Huang Renxun, becoming the richest man on Earth by early 2025. That’s if the surge in the firm's stock price...

China’s seniors are increasingly a happy bunch. And that’s just as well, for the next decade is set to see their numbers swell enormously, in a country which already has a serious problem as regards its aging population. Cheerful...

New regulations aimed at guiding the public to rationally view the relationship between marriage and betrothal gifts now in effect in China and with the aim of establishing a healthy, frugal and civilised concept of marriage could be putting...

Cashing in on kids is hardly a new concept. But in China, the public now stands on the verge of outcry. Imported prams can cost thousands of renminbi, but the battle lines are today being drawn around a more...

Cash is back in vogue, as people clamber to change money these days, seeking their hands on the most lucky money of all; commemorative Year of the Dragon currency. Yangzhou, in Jiangsu, is but one city where banks are...