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The extended meaning of unisex fashion in China

Jerry Zhang's favorite T-shirt is a white one with an abstract silhouette of a bra on the front. Jerry Zhang is a guy.As the founder and creative director of a Beijing-

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Chinese parents spend big on kids' sports

Zhang Yimeng, a 9-year-old pupil, has been fencing for over three years in a club in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province.The training course is not cheap. Zhang's par

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In The Spotlight: Zhang Yiming, the geek who dreams of a big world

In September 2014, 31-year-old Zhang Yiming visited Silicon Valley for the first time. At Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, the Chinese rising star in tech, who ha

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Across China: Badminton, ballet and Lego...Youth activity centers change rural kids' lives

Yao Wenjing loves playing badminton. But unlike her urban peers, the 11-year-old village girl did not have a professional guide or an indoor badminton court. Yet an op

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Economic Watch: China boosts investment in key fields to buoy recovery

China has pledged more measures to scale up investments in key fields including the new type of urbanization and major projects as it logged a better-than-expected eco

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Discover China: Cotton field drummer goes viral online

Fifty-year-old cotton farmer Zhang Hongyuan is a drummer with a difference in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As a cotton farmer, Zhang looks no di

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Feature: Medical "vendors" tout life-saving skills at night market

At 7:30 p.m., as lines of residents wait to be served snacks at food stalls at a night market on a bustling square in the city of Weifang, east China's Shandong Provin

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Profile: A guardian of qipao handicraft

Zhang Jin's day usually begins with the clicks of sewing machines. Tailor-making qipao dresses for customers across the country, the day slips by before he knows it. T

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Running renaissance on summer nights in China amid epidemic

As the night falls, Zhang Xueyi guides a group of runners warming-up in a coastal park in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan province. After some 10 minutes of st

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Feature: School principal crafts new future for "mountain girls"

At dawn, with a bullhorn in her left hand, Zhang Guimei tiptoes out of her dormitory and clutches at the handrail as she slowly makes her way down the stairs. Minutes

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Running towards light - story of a cancer-riddled marathon runner

He Ming, the cancer-riddled Chinese runner, is running in a marathon."I could not change the length of my life, but I can get hold of the width of it," said He Ming, wh

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COVID-19 and TCM: How Chinese medicine makes scientific inroads

03:49 In its latest move, Beijing health authorities have included Chinese medicine into the treatment plan for COVID-19 patients, as the city is going through a resurg

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One-armed Chinese basketball teen draws attention of Stephen Curry

00:46 Zhang Jiacheng is a 14-year-old one-armed boy who recently became an online sensation after a clip of him playing basketball went viral. Now, word on the Chinese

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Fresh graduates grapple with unemployment during COVID-19

A soon-to-be graduate this summer, Li Xuan is now doing an internship in an internet company based in Beijing. "I'm working very hard in order to turn this internship i

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One-armed teenage basketballer becomes online hit in China

Despite losing one arm, Zhang Jiacheng hopes to never lose his love for basketball or willingness to improve his skills on the court. The 13-year-old recently gained w

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Boao Forum for Asia calls for mutual understanding, cooperation against COVID-19

Facing the unprecedented shock brought by the global COVID-19 pandemic, experts and officials attending an online symposium held by the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) have

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Across China: Overseas returnee extends gratitude to medics in China

A thank-you note with neat, hard-tipped calligraphy went viral at a quarantine site in Baodi District, northern China's Tianjin Municipality. "To all medics, thank you