2014/09/12
"We are trying to make them like the guys who have 20 years' experience and have been sailing since they were six. In China you don't have anyone like that." In recent years OC Sport has demonstrated how serious it is about showing novices across the globe the ropes of sailing by building national t...
2014/08/27
Less than a decade ago, Chen Lin spent about six hours a day tending to her vegetable garden.She easily made about 3,000 yuan ($488) a month from the 0.3-hectare plot. She spent the rest of her time looking after her husband's parents, in their 80s, and her son, who was in high school.But for the pa...
2014/02/19
Updated: 2014-02-19A delegation led by Liu Haibo, vice-president of Dalian Wanda Group Co Ltd, a Chinese conglomerate company with activities in real estate, tourism, hotels, and entertainment, visited Wudang Mountains in Shiyan city, central China’s Hubei province on Feb 14, wudangshan.gov.cn repor...
2012/08/08
Will you marry me?Yin Guanheng, with a torch in his hand and escorted by four men dressed like British royal guards, takes a boat to propose to his girlfriend in Bailuzhou Park in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Monday. Inspired by the Olympic torch relay by British soccer star David Beckham on the Th...
2011/05/16
WUHAN - A lingering drought in Central China's Hubei province has rendered 1,392 reservoirs virtually useless as only dead water remains in them, said the local water authority Monday.Known as the "land of a thousand lakes" and a major producer of grain and cotton in the country, Hubei is suffering ...
