STRENGTHENED SCRUTINY

Belt and Road Initiative is a chance for China to deepen reform

Belt and Road Initiative is a chance for China to deepen

Environmental Protection

A series of stories about how environmental law enforcers

Costly Rescue

Since April 10, business has been suspended for restaurants

Larger Markets for Stand-Up

Stand-up comedy in China has become popular over the

Ali Opens New “Silk Road”

AliExpress, a sub-platform of China’s largest online

Green Cars Face Challenges

According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers

WHAT THEY SAY

Cheng Zhenwei, commenting on Hunan-based news portal rednet.cn, says the addiction to cosmetic surgery among university students shows the tightness of the job market

First Domestically-Made Aircraft Carrier Launched

China has launched its second aircraft carrier – and

Little yellow bikes

Bike hire is all the rage in cities across the world

Civil Aviation’s Transport Volume Ranks Second Globally for Ninth Year in a Row

Civil Aviation’s Transport Volume Ranks Second Globally

Natural partners

Some observers have interpreted the UK’s Brexit vote

Guess who’s in town

Former England football captain David Beckham was in

China to Enact Strictest-Yet Marine Fishing Ban

China launched its strictest-ever fishing ban at three

INFLUENTIAL

The National Development and Reform Commission issued

COSTLY

A new code of conduct on pricing items and services

FORBIDDEN

Chinese school children are being broadcast online

EFFECTIVE

A landmark medical reform that separates drug sales

Poll the People

WeChat, a popular social media platform operated by

Most Circulated Post

The launch of China’s first totally home-built aircraft

TOP BLOGGER PROFILE

Ma Ling founded one of the most popular providers of

Past, Present, and Future: A Chinese Perspective

Fu Ying, a former diplomat, offered her perspective on the thorny Korean nuclear issue

Reviving a Species

The North China Leopard was once heading for extinction, until conservation efforts brought its numbers up. But for how long?

JOINT APPROACH

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road initiative could shape the economic future of China and its neighbours near and far. But will the Beijing-led project be read as a geopolitical manoeuver?

From Blueprint to Reality?

With a high-profile summit for the Belt and Road initiative, China aims to transform the project into a multilateral platform which experts say serves to reform the current globalisation model

Breaking the Mould

The idea of industrial parks run by Chinese enterprises along the Belt and Road seeks to boost the industrialisation process of host countries. Their success lies in a mutual learning process, which means Chinese operators and policy makers cannot simply copy past experiences

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AN AVOIDABLE ASSAULT

Total disregard for the environment by industry and government has led to a landscape pockmarked with pools of pollution

National Ambitions

Chinese entrepreneurs want national policies to back up the country’s Artificial Intelligence efforts

Deep Learning

China’s search giant Baidu is trying to push the envelope on ‘deep learning’ and other AI techniques. But ethical and practical concerns haunt the company’s efforts

Technology Changes Everything

Famed artificial intelligence researcher Li Fei-Fei says industry and academia need to cooperate to reap the field’s benefits

New Era For Investment

Amid the complicated business environment and political uncertainties under the new US administration, Chinese companies continue to be optimistic about investing in the US market

Pulp Fiction Frenzy

Chinese serialised web novels are gaining traction in the English-reading world. Can Chinese pulp fiction enter the Western cultural market just as Japanese manga did twenty years ago?

A Dickensian Life in today’s Beijing

Within 24 hours of publishing a 7,000-word autobiographical essay on social media, migrant worker Fan Yusu became China’s most sought-after writer, whipping up a huge storm in her life. When the dust settled a week later, Fan talked with ChinaReport about her life, family and literature

23 Years of Connectivity

What happens every minute online in China? According

Where Avatar meets Jurassic Park

Used as the inspiration for the scenery in Avatar, Zhangjiajie is otherworldly in more ways than one – the scenery for sure, but also the sheer alien orderliness

The Little Empress

Many claim that China’s one-child policy has created

Unhealthy Competition

For Beijing residents, big diplomatic events are like

Colours of the Grainbow

Rice. It’s synonymous with the word for “food” in a