"According to the calculation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the middle income class in China accounted for 15 percent in 1999 and then it rose by 1 ... Read More

Here are a few pictures and the French creations from the Shanghai fashion show.

"Yuan Longping, father of hybrid rice and academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering was announced in Washington DC on March. 29 co-winner of World Food Prize of 2004 with grain ... Read More

Dusty weather will sweep north China four more times in the next ten days after the Chinese capital was just hit Monday by the strongest sand storm so far this ... Read More

"Many parents of children adopted from China are sending their kids to Chinese-language lessons as a way to help them learn about their heritage." Read the article.

"Lin Lu, the art critic from Shanghai Normal University, has produced an 'outrageous' photography series now showing at The Room with a View. Nude photography has gone very far in other ... Read More

"The Hong Kong Cultural Center in Victoria Bay was packed on Thursday night, and loud applause periodically echoed through the neon lit sky. It was not rock music nor was ... Read More

"A fickle world has changed its mind about China again. A year ago, the miracle of Chinese growth was widely seen as a bonanza for an otherwise sluggish global economy. ... Read More

"The number of netizens in China reached 79.5 million by the end of last year, and 32.2 percent of them said the purpose of surfing on the Internet was to ... Read More

"Ji Baocheng, a deputy from Beijing, said China each year had proclaimed only 10 days as public holidays so there was great room for the addition of some more. He ... Read More

"Valparaiso High School students witnessed some amazing feats of strength and discipline on the basketball court Monday. Without putting a single point on the scoreboard, a group of Chinese students ... Read More

A museum of traditional Chinese sex culture opened to the public earlier this week in Danxiashan geopark in Shaoguan, Guangdong. The museum, covering 2,400 square meters, is divided into six ... Read More

"People using acupuncture had fewer headaches, less severe headaches and they used less health resources over the course of the following year," Dr Andrew Vickers, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ... Read More

"Some people are worried that the country's programme of economic reforms has made ordinary Chinese more selfish and indifferent to the lives of others. To change the situation, they believe ... Read More

"For decades, the Chinese believed the myth that their most famous creation, the Great Wall, was visible from space. Elementary-school textbooks in the world's most populous nation still proclaim that ... Read More

"Locals and tourists in China's southwestern Sichuan province will have a chance to view close-up the ruins of an ancient kingdom and taste the ancient culture, dating back 2,800 to ... Read More

"China has started a 17-year project to preserve the nation's unique folk arts, crafts, literature and traditions. Chinese unique folk culture items are disappearing fast these years. For example, south ... Read More

Niya, believed to have flourished from the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD, has remained the best preserved and one of the largest ruins of the city states ... Read More

"There's a change brewing in China. In a country steeped in millennia-old traditions of drinking tea, the younger generation in fast-developing coastal provinces is switching to coffee as part of ... Read More

"Witness the culture clash apparent during the Shanghai fashion show, where even the model casting created tensions between Hardy Amies' creative and corporate ambitions. Just when Garlant and his team ... Read More

"Automobile sales in China, which reached two million last year, are growing at an annual rate of more than 50 percent. The growth of private car ownership has brought with ... Read More

"China's first helpline for girls who have been victims of sexual assault has officially opened in Beijing, receiving 60-odd calls already. The line, set up by Beijing Forestry University and ... Read More

"The orange bikini and chocolate-color wig shone under the spotlight, outlining the enchanting figure of Chen Lili, a transexual Chinese woman, at the Miss Universe-China competition in Southwestern Sichuan Province. ... Read More

"Armed with baby pictures and tearful indignation, the two couples come to court each day with their lawyers and supporters aligned on either side of the cherry-paneled chambers. For five ... Read More

China has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. Now the new tread is to make a constitution amendament to protect private property and human rights. Read the article.

To response the publication of Country Reports on Human Rights Practices by the US government, China issued the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2003 today. It is ... Read More