Among China’s 600 million myopic sufferers, almost half the population of the country, Chinese teenagers have the highest ratio in the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported recently. Although the causes of myopia are still unclear, some … read more
Continuous torrential rain since Friday has left 40,000 people with damaged property in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Heavy rain lashed 142 townships, swamping farmland, damaging houses, forcing evacuation of 295 people and causing direct econom… read more
China’s Ministry of Culture has issued a plan calling for targeted poverty alleviation in the cultural field during 2016-2020. The plan, for the 13th Five-Year Plan period, comes as the country aims to create a moderately prosperous society by 2020, w… read more
China expects a good harvest of summer crops as a slew of agricultural measures have overcome unfavorable weather conditions, the Ministry of Agriculture said Monday. Over 70 percent of China’s summer grain has been harvested, according to the ministr… read more
Nobel laureate in economics Thomas J. Sargent has been tapped to head a Chinese university institute to conduct teaching and research on economics including the use of artificial intelligence and big data in financial analysis. The Sargent Institute o… read more