Beijing and the provinces of Hebei and Shandong have set up supervising teams to keep an eye on dirty clouds, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said. On November 2 at 5 pm, a pollution monitoring station published a warning about serious pollution that would...
A cold snap in Beijing froze trees and yellowed leaves in the city’s Fragrant Hills Park in mid-October. The park announced it would close its yearly Red Leaf Festival early on November 13. During the last weekend of October, Fragrant Hills Park received more...
Lanxi Bai is hosting a party headlined by the Sino-American rock group Eluvia on November 19. Post and pre-concert events include card games and karaoke competitions. Eluvia is an indie band with four Americans and one Chinese musicians. The band might be best recognized...
Babaoshan, the capital’s best known provider of funeral and internment services, began reconstruction in October to bring its cremation unit in line with environmental requirements. Eight old incinerators were removed and replaced by eight new ones that use natural gas. The new incinerators also...
Ye Guozhi dedicates his work to the story of the city, “an enormous space” that offers him a chance to express his inner world. As Vincent van Gogh found his spiritual dwelling in the starry skies, so Ye finds his in the urban jungle....
November 11 has become China’s top day for online shopping since Alibaba started the trend of offering big discounts on “Singles’ Day.” But that swell in sales volume has come with a big increase in customer service complaints. On November 9, before this year’s...
Under the new military participation welfare policy, Beijing college students may receive 186,000 yuan as a military allowance. The Beijing People’s Armed Police said as many as half of the city’s college students joined the army this year, up from 37.8 percent in 2015....
“It’s now or never,” said the project manager of Beijing Institute of Surveying and Mapping. The group of 500 specialists is conducting a second geographical search into 680,000 place names that are forgotten or fragmented. A lack of information from the last project left...
Feng placed a pickup order with Yidao, an on-demand private driver app, at 7:30 am on October 30. He was surprised when the car never arrived by 8:10 am. He was more surprised when the bill came. A driver surnamed Zhang responded to Feng’s...
Longjin Band, the only girls’ reggae band in China, was founded in Beijing in 2007. Longjin combines folk music, reggae, funk and dub with soft melodies and meaningful lyrics. The band is celebrating its 9th anniversary on November 12 at Yue Space. Longjin released...
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