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Skills Competition

Competitors in the masonry competition during the Second Vocational Skills Competition of the People’s Republic of China at the National Convention and Exhibition Center in Tianjin, Sept. 16, 2023. There are 109 competition events, with more than 4,000 contestants from 36 delegations across the country participating. Guo Chaokai/CNS/VCG

Are Kids to Blame for China’s Noisy Trains?

On Chinese social media, complaints about crying babies and unruly children on China’s high-speed trains have emerged one after the other. The question many are asking: Why should I put up with this? Amid this clear change in the social climate, parents and train attendants are feeling the pressure.

Travel Record

On China’s Rural Obesity Problem

China’s Rural Children Close Height, Weight Gap, but Obesity Looms

China’s Last Esperanto Students

China used to have one of the world’s largest communities of Esperanto speakers. But the language is now in danger of disappearing from the country completely.