In 2014, a local civil affairs bureau in China spent eight months trying to open a nursing home. They visited 39 government departments and collected 133 seals, but that was still not enough to get it approved.
Chinese primary school students spend almost three hours a day doing homework, about three times the global average. New government policies are hoping to signficiantly reduce that burden.
China now has more than 750 million mobile Internet users. About two-thirds of them use mobile payment apps.
The walk home from your bus stop or subway station can seem like it lasts forever at the end of a long day. It’s times like these that have made bike sharing so popular for commuters across China.
Every day 50-year-old Zhang Hongxing walks more than 2 kilometers to make sure rubbish and sewage is kept out of his local river. He is one of 900,000 River Chiefs across China.
China is becoming the world leader in AI technology. Check out the video to see how a "ghost port" and an army of 20,000 little robots are turning the future into a reality today.
Ordinary products like oranges and bamboo are helping lift millions out of poverty across China.