As part of a hike, eight stunts dressed as characters from Avatar and walked on a tightrope strung between mountains over 1,000 meters high to compete in an international tightrope-walking contest held in Zhangjiajie, Central China's Hunan province on Sunday.
British journalist Owen Fishwick visits the world’s largest artificial forest, which was planted in the desert half a century ago to protect the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from sandstorms. He also visits a steel plant that looks like a forest in Hebei province’s Tangshan to see how the area is becoming an ecological buffer zone.
Tianjin is a seaport serving Beijing and Hebei province, as well as the country and the world. British journalist Owen Fishwick visits Tianjin as he explores how the Belt and Road Initiative is transforming the city and its surrounding region.
The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region's coordination means a growing number of people and industries are moving to Hebei province. British journalist Owen Fishwick visits a car factory in Cangzhou, a produce market it Gaobeidian — where he meets the "banana king" — and a wind farm in Zhangjiakou to discover how China is managing regional development.
In 1995, the first comprehensive list of the world's top 500 was issued. The number of listed enterprises in China has increased for 15 consecutive years.
Beijing is not only the national capital but also an innovation hub. It's a city where ancient history and futuristic technology collide. British journalist Owen Fishwick rides in a self-driving vehicle and visits a "sleeper city" on the capital's fringe.
Visit Maotai town, which produces the country’s most-celebrated liquor, and see how big data is being used to revolutionize agriculture in Guizhou. The mountainous province has long been one of the country’s poorest but is today turning its geological disadvantages into advantages in surprising ways.
Journalist Erik Nilsson becomes a bamboo-pole porter in infamously hilly Chongqing and hops on hogs with an elderly biker group. He also jumps aboard cruise and cargo ships to discover how the Three Gorges Dam in picturesque Yichang connects the country.
Wuhan's Optics Valley has become a magnet for web celebs. See how this internationally leading high-tech zone built on wasteland three decades ago has become a hub for IT, biomedicine and much more. Journalist Erik Nilsson uses joysticks to drive a tiny gastroscopy robot remotely and sings (badly) with an online star.
Directed by Zhang Yimou, the mass-choreographed outdoor show, Return to the Three Gorges, hit the stage on the Yangtze River on Dec 15 in Fengjie County, Southwest China’s Chongqing.
Need a life-size robotic saxophone-playing Santa? Or a dozen? Then, Yiwu is the place for you. If you can buy it anywhere in the world, you can buy it in “the world’s supermarket”. Journalist Erik Nilsson also visits “Heaven on Earth”, as Hangzhou is known, to discover how the scenic city is advancing cross-border ecommerce.
Train K7039 carries about 1,000 passengers from Harbin, capital city of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, to Mohe, China's northernmost city, on a daily basis.
From college days to retirement, a couple reflects through romantic letters on their life and capture the changes that have happened in the past four decades.
Journalist Erik Nilsson joins a fishing crew to haul up nets of the "three whites" and discuss how the pollution that left millions without water in Wuxi around 2007 pushed the government to guide development toward such innovative sectors as the internet of things.
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