From friend to family
2012-06-14 13:56:31
A Chinese autoworker's friendship with his Russian mentor personifies the big picture of Sino-Russian ties.
A filmmaker's odyssey
2012-06-14 08:06:11
An award-winning documentary's creator has hit the road to ensure his work on migrant workers is seen by the masses.
Educational aid program founded
2012-06-13 13:22:21
JDB Group and the China Youth Development Foundation co-founded an education aid program on June 5. The group donated 10 million yuan to help 2,000 students pay university tuition.
Visual effects giant investing in China
2012-06-13 13:21:33
The UK-headquartered visual effects software developer The Foundry is investing heavily in China following a period of strong growth in the region.
Listening ear
2012-06-13 10:57:59
Cao Wenying, who has been paralyzed since she was 4 months old, turns her hopelessness into strength to help others in need through a life hotline.
Building the new from the old
2012-06-13 10:32:05
Studying schematics in a small office, Wang Jianjun is busy trying to figure out how to build a small robot. Wang isn't exactly building the robot from scratch. Instead, he is creating it from a building block kit akin to Legos.
Competition drives create-or-die existence
2012-06-13 10:31:04
Vicious competition has continued reinventing the shanzhai, or "mountain fortress" - a term that once meant counterfeit but now refers to micro-innovation - market and its cultural consequences.
Top 5 develpoments
2012-06-13 10:07:43
G'Five started as a shanzhai operation, reproducing existing phones in the market. But it quickly evolved into an innovative behemoth in its own right.
Top 5 shanzhai
2012-06-13 10:06:01
Shanzhai is a broad term that not only denotes products that are blatant copies but are also marvels of ingenuity.
Innovation transformation
2012-06-13 09:13:57
The initial copycat culture of shanzhai products has morphed from pure piracy to value-adding creativity.
New system solves record number of criminal cases
2012-06-12 10:34:23
Guangdong police have captured 5,000 suspects during a seven-month crackdown and solved all its reported criminal cases last year - thanks to a computer system developed by Xu Fei.
A pig's tale
2012-06-12 10:31:36
The award-winning cartoon Pig Sale by Chen Xifeng shows how Chinese animation is evolving to produce original and locally flavored animated films.