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By Chris Nash As the famous British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” Her words poignantly articulate my affection for China. Reflecting on more than a decade of life and work there, a stream of vivid memories returns with remarkable clarity. In Beijing, I strolled through […]

By Zhu Dawei, People’s Daily Looking down from the skies above Yichun in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, the city presents a boundless expanse of forest stretching toward the horizon. With a forest coverage rate of 83.8 percent, the city boasts the world’s best-preserved Korean pine forest ecosystem. To the north, across the Heilongjiang River, lie […]

By Ji Juesu, Liu Junguo, People’s Daily At midday in a bustling yakiniku restaurant in Hachinohe, Japan, grills sizzled with freshly cooked meat as a delivery robot deftly navigated between tightly packed tables, serving steaming plates to diners. “The robot delivers steadily, clean and safe,” the restaurant’s manager remarked with evident approval. The robot was […]

By Wang Yuan, Liu Mengdan, Zhou Zhou, People’s Daily Fuyuan, a county-level city administered by Jiamusi, northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, is dubbed “the east pole of Huaxia (historical concept representing China)”. Separated from Khabarovsk, the largest city in Russia’s Far East, by the Heilongjiang River, the two cities are just 65 kilometers apart by water. […]

By Zhao Juecheng, Fan Lingzhi, Global Times; Zhang Bolan, Xian Gan, People’s Daily A 17-hour flight from Athens, Greece, to Lhasa in China’s Xizang autonomous region- including a layover in Beijing – bridges five time zones. This journey from the Aegean Sea to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau spans a distance once unimaginable to ancient travelers. Yet […]

By Pan Junqiang, Li Jianguang, People’s Daily From Aug. 8 to 12, the 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC) was held in Beijing under the theme “Making Robots Smarter, Making Embodied Agents More Intelligent.” The event brought together over 200 robotics companies from around the world, presenting more than 1,500 exhibits and debuting over 100 new […]

By Shi Fang, People’s Daily On a recent afternoon at Kunming Changshui International Airport, southwest China’s Yunnan province, more than a dozen seniors disembarked to commence an eight-day “travel and stay” program from Kunming to Jianshui county in the province’s southeast. “This itinerary was first drafted last October. We revised it more than a dozen […]

By Yan Yu Young people are both major beneficiaries and vital drivers of cooperation among member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). In recent years, leveraging the broad platform provided by the SCO, youth from member countries have actively engaged in cooperation, delivering fruitful outcomes in cultural exchanges, innovation and entrepreneurship, the digital economy, […]

By Yang Yi, People’s Daily A recent report jointly released by Singapore’s banking group DBS and market data and insights firm Cube projects that e-commerce sales in Southeast Asia will more than double from $184 billion in 2024 to $410 billion by 2030, representing a 14 percent compound annual growth rate over the period. As […]