At the age of 73, Chen Shaoqin from Beijing has shown the world how life should be lived. Despite having only a middle school education, Chen began studying English at the age of 40 and passed a college entrance exam, transforming herself from a factory worker to a white-collar employee in an international trade company.
Anyone who has never been to China Braille Library will conjure up various images of the place. Maybe there are wall-to-wall shelves with books piled all the way up, some covered in dust. Maybe a librarian with a serious look, typically a man in his 50s wearing old-fashioned reading glasses, sits behind a desk and issues books that borrowers pick from the shelves.
The clock struck 10. Teacher Luo Lili called upon her students to return, and like in any other class they returned to their seats, one by one, or in batches of two or three, soon forming a ring behind Luo who sat in front of a piano. After counting the heads to ensure they had all returned, Luo ran her fingers on the piano keys, pausing now and then to explain to the kids about rhythm and the tunes she was playing. They nodded from time to time.
Zhibaishuo, prior to its introduction to the Chinese market by US-based beverage giant Coca-Cola, had undergone a major upgrade of its product portfolio in an effort to seek growth opportunities in the country's fast-rising plant-based milk sector.
Creative ideas to capture the cravings of younger consumers for ice cream this summer are heating up.
Monitoring data from a WeChat applet called 'pollen monitoring forecast' by the Beijing Meteorological Service and Beijing Tongren Hospital showed that pollen concentrations in the city's air will remain high .
Every now and then in spring, people can be seen sneezing with stuffy noses on streets in northern China, which may be one of the symptoms of pollen allergy.
As spring temperatures continue to rise, timothy grass is sprouting in the pastures of Lizhu, a village in Minxian county, Gansu province, and the village's farmers welcome the best period for selling grass.
It's hard to imagine when seeing Yu Dan — dressed like a common worker, usually in crumpled, untidy clothing, splashed with mud or soaked with water — that he is a professor at a famous university.
Nestled at the foot of the Mao'er mountain, the Lijiang River Source Grand Canyon is flanked by green hills. The source of the river, it's a renowned tourist attraction as well.
"Guilin is such a magical place that no matter how many times you visit it, there is always something new to be discovered," said Jiang Zhengtao, a veteran tour guide at the world-class tourism destination in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, widely known for its karst landscape.
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