Capping rent prices; New Guangdong-Macao economic zone; Investing billions in chips; Biodiversity conservation; China wins at the Paralympics

Reducing testing for school kids; Rotating top teachers in public schools; Controlling online celebrity fan clubs; Limited hours for online gaming youth; Controlling 996 overwork culture

Explaining “common prosperity”; Regulating property developer Evergrande; New personal data protection law; Investing in Argentina’s nuclear energy; Growing rice in factories

Future of China-Afghan relations; brands post-Xinjiang cotton boycott; skyrocketing shipping costs; leaders in AI; thriving museum culture

Trade war tariffs and US inflation; Chinese fintech apps in Africa; national fitness plan; household debt; women construction workers

Rescuing education, “hijacked by capital”; World’s most expensive housing; Mao’s “protracted” comeback; Pig farm high-rises; PRC at the Olympics (1952-2020)

Private tutoring industry; delivery workers’ rights; Xinjiang-EU exports; Henan flooding; history of “red financial system”

China-Afghanistan; China launches carbon trading market; big tech signs “self-discipline” pledge; Zhejiang’s “common prosperity” pilot; space program in popular culture

½ billion Chinese vaccines for COVAX; who funds coal energy?; banned video game giants’ merger; world’s largest wind farm; a look back: rural school meal program

Chinese solar panels in Xinjiang; Didi investigated for national security; China approaches Germany and France; China eradicates malaria; first socialist workers villages

CPC’s centenary special; Xi’s speech at the centenary event; Brazilian ex-President Lula praises the CPC; behind China’s economic success; bringing the CPC museum to life

Mission to Tiangong space station; FBI agent confesses false spy claims; future Germany-China relations; from deserts to forests; red TV drama success

China’s anti-sanctions law; G7 competes with China; data as national security; Three Gorges Renewables IPO; Chinese artists satirize G7

US tech competition bill; Guangzhou Covid outbreak; Huawei launches HarmonyOS; high-tech greenhouses; gaokao entrance university exams

Three-child policy; curbing digital industries’ emissions; flying 30 times the speed of sound; Latin America’s Chinese vaccines; Chinese dramas reach Africa

China’s support for Palestine; EU parliament freezes China deal; “zero tolerance” for commodity speculation; cracking down on bitcoin mining; mourning agronomist Yuan Longping

Mars landing; Taiwan invests in mainland chips; pilot private pension plan; “cooling off” divorces; 2008 Wenchuan earthquake remembered

WHO approves Sinopharm vaccine; lowest growth rate in 7th census; government earns 98% public support; party branches in private sector; “red tourism” grows tenfold

US pharma defends vaccine patents; Chinese IPOs grow in US market; data center energy consumption; food or “feed” security?; celebrating International Workers Day

Fukushima’s nuclear waste; Australia vetoes BRI deal; Yangtze’s fishing ban; opening up childbirth rules; world’s biggest oil painting factory

China’s trade surplus with US grows; Alibaba fined for monopolistic practices; Chinese GDP jumps 18.3% in Q1; Shenzhen’s “green” GDP alternative; “red films” for CPC’s centenary

China exports half its vaccines, Middle East-China relations, world’s largest radio telescope, real estate falls as financial investments grow, financing the green economy, “tomb-sweeping” festival

China-Iran deal; no “forced labor” found in Xinjiang; campaigns to support Xinjiang cotton; Sinopec bets on hydrogen; boosting migrant worker consumption; reeling in the tutoring industry

China challenges US in Alaska; Sino-Russian cooperation against sanctions; JPMorgan pledges investment in China; reeling in predatory online lending; archaeological discovery and Chinese origins; declining US culture among Chinese youth

QUAD moves against China; China-Russia-Venezuela UN bloc; increasing retirement age; China’s safe bond market; fight against air pollution; from Paris to Guangzhou Commune

Highlights from “Two Sessions”; 6% GDP forecast in 2021; Hong Kong electoral reform; debunking “vaccine diplomacy”; genetic tech self-sufficiency; “cultural palaces” for workers

Stories about women in China for International Working Women’s Day on 8 March 2021. History, challenges, and advances affecting women’s lives.

African “debt-trap” myth debunked, steps towards digital yuan, “stay-at-home” economy booms, rural revitalization plan announced, biodegradable plastics industry, Chinese blockbuster celebrates mothers

Spring festival edition. Happy Year of the Ox!

Digital Silk Road; 1,500 new COVID-19 cases; government reproaches national energy regulator; celebrating artist He Xiangning

Smartphone training program for the elderly in Beijing, August 2018 [Huizhong Beili Community Center]

Commemorative stamp for 100th anniversary of the Chinese edition of the Communist Manifesto, 2020 [Shine]

Training program graduate, Fay, teaching in her hometown [Cindy Liu/World of Chinese]

Selfie with Karl Marx at exhibition celebrating 200 years since his birth, 2018 [Chen Xiaogen/People Visual via Sixth Tone]

Chairman Mao’s 127th birthday was celebrated nationally on 26 December 2020 — here pictured with students from Africa, Asia and Latin America in 1959 [Hou Bo/ChinaFotoBank]

Ezra F. Vogel with his book “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China” (2011) [Caixin Global]

Tan Weiwei performing Xiao Juan (“Pseudonym”) song on violence against women, 2020 [Bilibili]

Vaccine developed by the state-owned SinoPharm, 2020 [Xinhua]

Zha Xiaoyuan, Xi Zhen and Wang Lan were students in the first coeducation cohort at Peking University, 1920 [Ding Yining/Sixth Tone]

Subway workers dressed in Hanfu clothing in Xi’an, Shaanxi, 2020 [Zhang Yuan/China News]

“Moonlight hometown” by Gao Chao (高潮), 1984 [china.com.cn]

Zheng Yefu, Fight (1933), woodcut [Shanghai People’s Fine Art Publishing House]

ian Xuesen looking through an optical device used for rocket and missile testing [参考网]

Porcelain craftsperson in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, 2o13 [“吉卜赛男人”
via ZOL]

Ruins of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing [VCG Photo via CGTN]

Recreated Tang Dynasty-style night market in the former Silk Road hub of Xi’an, 2019 [Wang Jian/People’s Daily]

Writer Eileen Chang in Hong Kong in 1954 and one of her manuscripts [Wikipedia and University of Southern California Libraries]

Celebration of 71st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China is held at the Tian’anmen Square in Beijing, 1 Oct. 2020 [Chen Zhonghao/Xinhua]

Scene from NetEase’s Ni Shui Han, a multiplayer role-playing game set in Song dynasty China (10-13th c.) [@逆水寒 on Weibo]

The Eighth of the Twelfth Lunar Month, 2008 [Sixth Tone/Cai Dongdong] and The Third of May, 1808 by Francisco Goya, 1814 [Wikipedia]

Liu Cixin at the Nebula Awards book signing, 2014 [Greeny/Sohu]

People gather to celebrate the victory in the war against Japanese aggression in Zhangjiakou, northern Hebei province, 1945 [NetEase]

Train 6061 from Liupanshui, Guizhou province to Kunming, Yunan province, 2014 [Qian Haifeng, Sixth Tone]

Kindergarten children in Weifang, Shandong province, being taught to “clear your plate” in 2013 [VCG]

Five warriors getting ready for the battle against Japanese occupation
[Zhang Guanyu Memorial Site]

Movie theaters reopen across China [World of Chinese]

China Telecom workers install a 5G base station in Gansu province, 21 February 2019 [Zhang Tieliang/VCG/Getty Images]

Li Ziqi cooking with her grandmother in rural Sichuan province [YouTube]

Women volunteers carry sand bags to dike in Jiangjialing Village in China’s eastern Jiangxi Province, 11 July 2020. [Xinhua/Zhou Mi]

Jin Xing, transgender actress and one of China’s top TV hosts [SCMP]

A herder and her daughter in Akyaz Valley, Zhaosu County, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 2018 [Xinhua/Hu Huhu]

Villagers performing the dragon dance and lantern show during the Duan Wu festival in Xiachong, Hunan province. 25.06.2020 (Xinhua/Cao Zhengping)

Volunteers from the Beijing Blue Sky Rescue Team spray disinfectant in Yuegezhuang wholesale market in Fengtai district, Beijing. [Photo: people.cn]

Chinese medical experts and supplies arriving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
23.05.2020 (SCMP)

Hong Kong passes bill protecting the Chinese national anthem amidst national sovereignty and security measures [Photo: AFP]

Deputies attend the third session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) as it opens in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing [Photo: Xinhua]

Shanghai moviegoers and posters of box-office hits “Detective Chinatown 3” and “Hi, Mom”, 21 February 2021 [VCG/China.org.cn]