There have been hundreds of reports about China's breakthroughs, including EV battery technology and chip-makers such as Changxin Memory Technologies, but few mention that they come from a landlocked province once famed for farming.
The agricultural province of Anhui took a dramatically different turn after an entire university was transported 1,000 miles. Herman Hu…
"One physical step took me across an international border; one mental step helped me transcend my own preconceived stereotypes," says Wu Pei Yee, a Hong Kong form five student who writes about a visit to Xinjiang -- and the step that took her from China into Kazahkstan.
BEFORE I LEFT HONG KONG for our school…
Almost a third of Hong Kong's land will be blended into an extraordinary plan for a new super-city.
It's huge: the size of the UK's Birmingham, or Kansas City in the US.
Prof Herman Hu says that Hong Kong's Northern Metropolis can take inspiration from Xiong'an, the "city of the future" being built south…
SCIENTISTS WARN that the dramatic disappearance of handwriting in the modern world will have a negative effect on the human brain—but not in China.
For the Chinese, the art and science of handwriting is alive and well--and not just as a way of communicating information, but as a standard skill that every young person learns—and…
FOR CENTURIES, Asian and Western sailors shipwrecked in Chinese waters got a nice surprise.
The Chinese government had a rescue policy. Sailors would be given free food and clothing. They would be helped with ship repairs, or even transported home.
This applied to everyone in China’s coastal waters and around Chinese islands such as Taiwan—but…
There's a worrying hole in China's tax system
What's the deal with 'limited-term' property ownership?
Practical solutions to solve asset transfer problems
A debate has sprung up concerning assets owned by individuals in China. In this essay, Richard Cullen guides us through the issues and looks at intriguing solutions that could move the country forwards…
The people of Xinjiang are growing in number, and in health and wealth: the opposite of a genocide. Hong Kong's Herman Hu visited recently - one of 300 million people who visited the region in the past year.
FOREIGN MEDIA OUTLETS have recently once again repeated false allegations of so-called "genocide" in Xinjiang. There is…
More than 1,000 young people lured into violence in the 2019 civil unrest have joined a rehabilitation program involving visits to the Chinese mainland - and the results are extraordinary. The program has an incredibly low re-offending rate of just 0.4 per cent, compared to Hong Kong’s overall 22.4 per cent rate. James Ockenden reports…
“HUNGRY? I HAVE SOMETHING to show you,” the white-haired man says to the young fellow hunter he is training. “Come.”
They walk into a deep cave in a cliff wall jutting out of the forest and sit on the floor.
The older man opens the leather pouch he uses as a bag and pulls out…
BREAKING NEWS:
CHINA'S LEADERSHIP THIS WEEKEND said “no” to a global order issued by U.S. President Donald Trump—and today analysts worldwide are holding their breath to see if the mercurial leader will back down.
The Trump administration last week again ordered the world, including specific firms in China, to stop trading with Iranians—the latest in…
