From China Post

It is common for people to compare the slow delivery service of China Post with Panda Slow Post, a privately run delivery service in the 798 Art Zone. But staff at Hujialou Post Office believe the difference is credibility. "China Post has its credibility and brand. Customers can have confidence that the letters they hand to us will be delivered. But as to the privately operated service...

Find new ways to make traditional festivals fun

Traditional festivals have made a comeback. The Spring Festival celebrations have just ended, Qingming (Tomb Sweeping) Festival is on the way (April 5), followed by Duanwu (Dragon Boat) Festival (June 14). Later, there will be the Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival (Sept 22) and Chongyang Festival (Senior's Festival) (Oct 16). It's been a stunning turnaround since it was not until January 2008 that th...

Love is a many-yuan thing

The post-80s generation is getting married in droves and their weddings are becoming ever more costly and lavish affairs, Shi Yingying reports Yvonne Yu's dream wedding at a top Shanghai hotel this month will cost an estimated 200,000 yuan ($30,000). Like many modern-day couples that plan to marry soon, Yu has had big dreams about her wedding. "The post-80s generation has more expectations th...

City of eternal spring

It's with reason that Kunming is called the "city of eternal spring". With the temperature hovering at about 15 C throughout the year, people in this capital city of Yunnan province never have to worry about scorching-hot summers or biting-cold winters. One of the best ways to experience this city is to start your journey at Green Lake Park, or Cuihu, where residents like to gather for exercis...

Two earthquakes in two cities, one student

After experiencing a major earthquake firsthand, Yuan Ziliu, a Spanish language sophomore at Southwest University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Mianyang, the epicenter of Sichuan earthquake, never thought he would live through the same experience again on the other side of the world. Yuan, together with nine other SUST students, arrived in Concepcion, Chile on February 21 to participate i...

To rent a book

 If you are a newcomer to Beijing, you may find it difficult to find a home for yourself. The Beijing Housing Service Corporation for Diplomatic Missions provides free consulting on office or residential accommodation, including recommending suitable homes to foreign organizations when necessary. You can also call on the services of trustworthy housing agents to do the job.   &n...

Rent-a-German-cook

 A perk of living in an international capital like Beijing is that you can get almost anything delivered directly to your door, be it McDonalds or a motherboard. With the arrival of Christian Söldner, a 41-year-old from Bavaria, Germany, the city's food delivery options now include this rent-a-German-cook. Lifestyle arranged a cooking session to find out more. Söldner punctually arrived a...

Young consumers of the world,out of many!

Coinciding with Consumer Rights Protection Day on March 15, the China Association for Quality Promotion (CAQP) released a report in cooperation with five Beijing universities revealing that one in four college students would not bother to take any recourse if their consumer rights were violated. Of the 1,034 students surveyed, most have experienced infringement of their consumer rights in at le...

Life source in China

With students across the country joining together to mark China's 9th Mother River Protection Day Tuesday, the management team behind China's second largest river, Huang He, or Yellow River, are also celebrating a milestone that saw their protection efforts recognized at an international level last week. After 10 years of overcoming natural and man-made challenges facing what Chinese people cal...

As good as the words

A translator with an ear for both languages and the skill to move seamlessly between them is essential if a book is to be a success in another language Publishers and authors in Beijing are making big efforts to write the pages of Chinese history through an increased push to translate Chinese literature. Penguin Publishing, one of the bigger Beijing-based translators of Chinese fiction into ...