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President Xi Jinping has told China’s private entrepreneurs they are a key part of the nation’s “socialist market economy” as the Communist Party seeks to rally the private sector amid the ongoing tensions with the United States.  Xi’s message was delivered on Wednesday, a day after the party released a policy that ordered the private sector to help meet the nation’s strategic goals as it faces an increasingly hostile external environment. “It is critically important to promote the healthy development of the non-public economy and the healthy growth of people in the non-public sector,” Xi said, according to the official news agency Xinhua. The president urged the United Front Work Departmen

China’s new language policy for schools in Inner Mongolia sparked rare protests and class boycotts in the region as locals fear the rules will suffocate their culture. Some parents have been threatened with layoffs, fines, and their children’s expulsion from school if they refuse to send their kids back to school. 

A man suffered from a rare condition that caused his upper body to fold over completely. Three parts of his body were “connected” – his chin to his chest, his breastbone to his pubic bone, and his face to his thigh bone.  After undergoing four operations at Shenzhen University General Hospital, in which his bones were literally broken and reconstructed, he finally stood straight – after 28 years.  Credit: 二更深圳/深圳大学总医院

A man from China’s Guangdong province has turned his fish tank into a soccer stadium. Yang Tianxin started training his goldfish half a year ago. Now he has 5 Ranchu goldfish that know how to shoot a ball into the goal.

When Wang Dandan moved to Wuhan for a job managing a newly built hotel last summer, she could never have guessed the front-seat view she would have of the city’s battle against the coronavirus. After the severity of the outbreak became clearer and authorities sealed off the central Chinese city on January 23, her hotel became the sleeping quarters for medical professionals deployed across the city. Thanks to its proximity to two major hospitals, the hotel was soon abuzz with doctors and nurses at the initial epicenter of the crisis. The lobby of the hotel is still decorated with silk banners sent by visiting medical teams expressing gratitude for the hospitality. But nearly 150 days after th

A French bulldog from China’s Henan province has become a social media star thanks to his astonishing skateboarding skills.

China’s Three Gorges Dam is facing record levels of flooding because the Yangtze River, which passes through the dam, has flooded several times this year already amid heavy rains. The waterway’s lower reaches are still recovering from heavy flooding in July that affected a large part of southeastern China.

China said the widely reported Wuhan pool party showed the country had achieved a “strategic victory” in its fight against the coronavirus.  Over a weekend in mid-August, thousands of people were seen packed in a water park in Wuhan, the former epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.

This former Paralympian can throw playing cards so hard that he can light matches, open glass bottles and slice fruit. Li Tingshen won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the men’s 50 meter breaststroke, and says that it was his card hobby that set him on the path to success.

Chinese video platforms are taking steps to regulate online eating shows after state media criticism of food waste.