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China aims to reform rural customs of extravagant weddings, funerals

Twenty-two couples have a group wedding without a bride price in Shangqiu, Central China’s Henan Province in September, 2018. Photo: VCG Many grassroots officials and governments vow to guide residents across China in changing extravagant weddings and luxury feasts for funerals as China begins curbing outdated conventions in rural areas. Officials have called for policies …

Turkey returns historic artifacts more than 1,000 years old to China

Logistics staff load Chinese cultural relics transported from Italy, which have been cleared by the customs, into trucks, at Beijing International Airport in Beijing, capital of China, April 10, 2019. A total of 796 Chinese cultural relics arrived at Beijing International Airport at 6:54 a.m. after an eight-hour flight from Italy. The group of Chinese …

International delegates in Jiangxi see China’s social reforms up close

Delegates from northern African countries and Cyprus pose for a group photo with opera performers from a community in East China’s Jiangxi Province. Photo: Zhang Han/GT Some 350 political party delegates from more than 60 countries visited East China’s Jiangxi Province, where they see close on how China implemented its policies of poverty reduction, environmental …

China applies high technologies in elderly care

Senior residents spend leisure time outside in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu Province. Photo: VCG After seeing a food delivery request from a couple of elderly empty-nesters nearby on “Time bank,” a volunteer service app enabling care for seniors, Wang Shaokang clicked the “accept order.”  Wang, who was born after 1995, is a volunteer based in …

Transmission of mother-to-child, drug-related HIV controlled

A baby is delivered on the morning of December 2 in Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong Province, by an HIV-infected mother who undertook PMTCT treatment. PMTCT reduces the risk of infant HIV infection to close to zero. Photo: VCG The transmission of HIV/AIDS in China through blood transfusion has been blocked, and injection drug abuse and …

AI-based Tibetan-Putonghua translation app empowers ethnic culture

Job seekers view employment information during a job fair in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje) A Tibetan language translation software, Zangyitong, which applies AI technologies and automatic speech reorganization, is now available in Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region and Sichuan Province, the Tibet Daily reported on Monday.  The translation software, …