In 2014, a friend told Yin Binbin about the bleak lives of the residents of Mathare, a slum area in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. As he listened, an idea occurred to Yin - then a sophomore at Shandong University in East China - he would volunteer to work in a school in the ghetto.
During a research trip to South Africa last summer, Zhang Chi visited several deprived areas to learn about the conditions facing the people who live in them. The first slum she visited was on the western outskirts of Cape Town, where the residents had built temporary shelters from sheets of iron and strips of linen on plots of deserted land.
When I was learning to drive in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, my instructor once broke the silence with a short but astonishing remark, one I am unlikely to forget: "Chinese workers in construction sites in Africa are prisoners."
If you had been at Daming Lake, a major scenic spot in Jinan, capital of East China's Shandong province, on April 2, then you may have come across an unusual sight - several people dressed in Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) costumes firing bows and arrows by the lakeside.
In China, Spring Festival is usually a time for reunions with relatives and friends. But during the holiday this year, National People's Congress Deputy Song Xinfang locked himself in his room and refused any invitations to dinner.
Baiyangdian, northern China's largest freshwater wetland, will see its ecological environment further improve as part of the Xiongan New Area, according to local authorities.
Housing reforms will be launched in Xiongan New Area to attract talent, and affordable public housing programs will be available in the early phases, according to people familiar with the project.
The People's Liberation Army Ground Force is making efforts to improve its combat readiness and capability.
Connectivity, the green economy and winter sports were major highlights of President Xi Jinping's recent state visit to Finland.
Collaboration in education has become one of the highlights of Sino-Finnish relations in recent years, with exchanges unfolding in a wide range of fields and at all levels.
China will develop a new area in the northern region - parallel to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in the South and the Shanghai Pudong New Area in the East - to serve as another economic engine and advance the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Xiongan New Area has halted all real estate sales, and police will take measures against anyone ignoring the ban, local officials said on April 2.
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