，Walk into the Panjiayuan Flea Market
Dubbed as the largest secondhand marktet in Asia, the Panjiayuan Flea Market is a must-go place of Beijing, following the Great Wall and Beijing Duck Restaurant. |
，Sun Yat-sen's Foreign Bodyguard
Morris Cohen, or as he was known in Chinese "Two Gun Man Ma Kun" was one of the few Westerners to stand alongside the Chinese people during the early Twentieth Century. |
，Dated Old Garden House Hot at Market
Living in an old house with a garden is a dream for many people nowadays. The historical value and graceful construction of such dwellings attract many people to invest in them, naturally, the price then rises. |
，Women Claim a Larger Share in Shanghai Property Market
About 12,000 women in Shanghai have bought homes in the city during the past couple of years, overnumbering their opposite sex counterparts some 16 percent. |
，Searching for First Love: Worth the Effort?
A company in Nanjing has started offering a groundbreaking new service in China. "For just 1,000 yuan, we'll help you find your first love," says the advertisement, now appearing in newspapers in cities all around the country. |
，Chinese Women Still Value Family Traditions
Chong Ming, a 26-year-old woman, described her grandmother as a "typical traditional Chinese housewife. |
，The Change of Chinese Families' 3 'Most-Wanted'
Nowadays sewing machines are rarely seen in the rooms of today's modern families. However, back to some fifty years ago, they were once among the "three Most-wanted" list by Chinese people together with watches and bikes. |
，Cancer Victim Lives on in Eyes of Others
A nurse in Badong County of Central China's Hubei Province - Wang Feiyue - has been featured in the national media over the past few months. The news reached a climax last week. |
，Probe into the Disappearance of the Ancient Loulan City
1500 years ago, it was a prosperous lakefront city on the Silk Road. 1500 years later, nothing has left but the desert... |
，Medicare Scheme to Cover More Farmers
More farmers are expected to enjoy a trial medicare system this year, similar to the medicare now enjoyed by increasing numbers of city dwellers. |
，Schools & Companies to Jointly Train Grey Collars, Blue Collars
More than 500 Chinese professional training schools and 1,400 companies and enterprises will join hands to cultivate grey-collar and blue-collar workers, which are much needed with the country's rapid economic growth. |
，"Beggars' Village" in Hang Zhou
In Hang Zhou, along the Qiantangjiang riverside, there's a "Beggars Villages." |
，A Russian Girl's Dream of Ballet
Graduated from St. Petersburg Ballet Academy, Russian girl Aorig is now a children's ballet instructor at the Arts Training Center of the Wuhan Children's Arts Theater. |
，Growing Pains--Beijing's Traffic Jams
The government of Beijing announced on August 4, 2003, that the number of motorized vehicles in the city had reached 2 million. The city had become a society on wheels. While the dream of owning a private car has come true for some of them, the sight of so many cars has been hard for some to get used to-especially the traffic jams. |
，The Tomb of the Princess
Most people know The Tombs of the Princess as a station along Beijing's No.1 subway line, while... |
，History of Valentine's Day
Although we celebrate Feb 14 each year, not many of us know how St Valentine's Day came about. Some believe that it marks the day a Roman priest called Valentine (Valentinus) died for his faith in the early days of Christian history. |
，China's Valentine's Day Love Affair
Life in China has become ever more diversified in recent years, allowing more space for Western fashion and convention. Today Valentine's Day and Christmas are widely celebrated, particularly among the youth, who jump at every chance to party, revel and romance. |
，Crossing the International Date Line
"We didn't understand each other very well at all in the beginning," Bella admits. "We celebrated our first Valentine's Day on a park bench sipping a pearl tea with two straws, whispering sweet nothings - literally. |
，Emergency Shelters Planned For Capital Residents
Beijing plans to build more than 1,000 emergency shelters in the next few years. |
，Family Secrets
"Behind each building, a phase of history has been forgotten," remarked Song Luxia, a middle-aged woman who has devoted herself to being a "historical recorder" of the unknown stories of Shanghai's modern powerful and wealthy families in the past century. |
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