Late South African leader Nelson Mandela once said bravery is not the absence of fear,but the triumph over it.This sentiment rang true for me when I first visited Shanghai in 2012 and had the opportunity to climb the ...
On the night of the Qixi Festival,Chinese Valentine's Day,which fell on August 22 this year,Yao Xiaofang,a 71-year-old pearl wholesaler,livestreamed until midnight,later than usual.She did so because of the extraordin...
History is made by people. With concrete actions and votes, the people of Hong Kong have jointly ushered in a new chapter in the history of China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region(SAR), also known as the Pear...
When the word"battle,"or any other war-affiliated term,pops up in a movie title,you’re usually in for an action-packed,loud,at times cruel,but ever-grand spectacle:Dunkirk,Pearl Harbor,Hack saw Ridge,Enemy at the Gates.
Chan Ka-ying,or Nicole,lives with her cat in Shenzhen,a booming tech city in the south of Guangdong Province.Born in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region(HKSAR),she is currently working in a stateowned enterprise a...
Since China resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, also known as the Pearl of the Orient, in 1997, the special administrative region has enjoyed constant economic growth and rising international prestige....
Located in central Guangdong Province, Qingyuan is called the "back garden" of the Pearl River Delta owing to its abun- dant tourist attractions and a beautiful natural environment.
Located in the southeastern part of Guangdong Province and on the west bank of the Pearl River estuary, Zhuhai borders Hong Kong to the east and Macao to the south. As early as 1980, it was one of the countr's first ...
On June 12-16, in the run-up to the launch of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, a Beijing Review reporter entered the rarely visited Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province.
West Lake inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List as cultural landscape The famous ancient Chinese poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty(618-907) could not imagine a thousand years later the West Lake that fascinated him