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A weekly feature show where we discuss people, lifestyles and China's ever-changing society.
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China is home to many of the world's rare wild creatures, the giant panda and Chinese pangolin to name just two of them. Along with the arrival of spring in most parts of China, residents and tourists have been delighted to spot some of these rarely-seen animals – among them birds coming back from their migration, wild camels and pandas.
It's no doubt that China looks like an Eldorado for people working in the music industry: 1.4 billion inhabitants and their ever-improving living standards. Currently, the country is home to more than 950 million mobile internet users, who are creating a huge demand for quality digital music. Trying to tap into such market potential, a great many domestic and foreign music companies are presenting a variety of music choices for the online consumers. But profits seem to be evading them at the present.
As warm spring breezes begin to wake nature in most parts of China, residents are opening their doors and coming out of winter in more ways than one. Outdoor activities are definitely getting popular during this time. Group running, hiking and family outings are being organized across the nation, with an emphasis on joy, physical health, charity and a low-carbon lifestyle.
Amid the deepening economic
and social reforms, the Chinese government has begun to abolish some of the policies that
prevented farmers-turned migrant workers from becoming full-status urban citizens. But while some of the
migrant workers do choose to settle down in the cities, others, estimated to be
millions, decided to return to their rural hometowns, where new opportunities
are emerging. These returning migrant
workers, with the support of favorable policies, are finding jobs with local
businesses or starting their own in the agriculture, construction and service
industries.
Along with its eye-catching economic growth in recent decades, the world's most populous nation has also been aging rapidly. Having long passed the international threshold of an "aging society," China is facing great challenges to provide elderly care for the hundreds of millions of people already above the age of 60. As the government finds itself short of the funds needed to build all the nursing homes required, it has been encouraging private investment and volunteer services to fill the gap.
China with its enchanting ancient civilization is home to many of the world's fascinating cultural heritages. Cultural institutions across the nation are now exploring various ways to better preserve these heritages and make them more easily accessible to the general public.
China's locally-produced comics or "Guoman" in Chinese have seen a rapid rise in popularity thanks tothe internet and efforts in creating derivative products of classical cartoon characters. To capitalize further on the domestic market, Chinese animation companies have also been exploring other ways to grow themselves.
China's locally-produced comics or "Guoman" in Chinese have seen a rapid rise in popularity thanks tothe internet and efforts in creating derivative products of classical cartoon characters. To capitalize further on the domestic market, Chinese animation companies have also been exploring other ways to grow themselves.
Amid a national drive of environmental protection, many regions in China have been speeding up tree-planting efforts: new forest farms and parks are being built near cities; and inside them, more trees and green spaces are being developed. Even more importantly, better management of the forests is being encouraged and more benign economic development is being stressed.
China and its rich cultural relics are territories into which the art of modern dance, evolving in the West since the early 20th century, has been reaching its tentacles and in return drawing artistic inspiration. Willy Tsao, an artist born in Hong Kong, has played a monumental role in this process and is widely believed to be "the founding father of modern dance in China."
Hundreds of millions of Chinese people are getting back to work as the annual celebrations of the Spring Festival come to an end. As usual, many of them are flocking to big, affluent cities in the hope of finding a better job. Against the backdrop of a slowing economy, the job market is becoming increasingly competitive for both migrant workers and college graduates.
The annual celebrations of the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, are now underway all across the vast land of China. Mass-scale travelling, family reunions, and temple fairs are the routines of a week-long Spring Festival holiday year after year. The Chinese new year of 2017, which begins on January 28th, is no exception. But there are still some different ways to celebrate and various activities in different regions across the nation.
Choking, smoggy air frequently appears in many cities in China, with residents having to tolerate the pollution from time to time. As a result, more and more people are seeking fresh air and proper rest, away from the urban concrete jungle. Luckily, China is so vast that alternative landscapes can be found, where people can have a good rest and breathe clean air. In the west of Zhejiang Province, east China, a green and pleasant land awaits the millions of urbanites, who are tired of their monotonous city lives.
The Chinese population is rapidly aging after decades of the "one child" policy, greater life expectancy and other factors. How to provide quality care for the huge number of seniors has become a pressing issue. Faced up to this situation, some cities have been exploring new ways to help ease the shortage of quality care for the elderly.
China is home to many of the world's intangible cultural heritages, for instance Kun Qu Opera, a traditional Chinese opera which dominated the country's theatre from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Although Kun Qu has been included on UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the preservation of this traditional opera still faces challenges. Many attempts have been made by Kun Qu performers and other artists to help it strike a chord with younger audiences, most of whom prefer more modern pop culture. One noteworthy attempt comes from cartoonist Lin Cheng-te from Taiwan.
At the moment, more than half of the 1.3 billion Chinese people live in the cities. But urban life isn't always attractive. The fast-pace and hustle and bustle of crowded cities often makes many residents nostalgic about the slow-paced, rural pastoral life of years gone by. Reviving this kind of tranquil life, a small town called Yaxi in eastern China is providing an ideal place for people fed up with the pressure and anxiety of modern urban life.
How to treat the kitchen waste has become a problem for individual Chinese families as well as the nation as a whole. As well as mass scale industrial treatment, one seemingly insignificant invention by a Beijing resident has proved to be very effective in treating the small amount of kitchen waste that a single household produces.
China's art market has seen a boom since the early 2000s with the expansion of the Chinese economy producing a number of super-rich businessmen. It's become a normal picture for Chinese collectors and investors to throw millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars at a painting or porcelain vase at international auction events. Now this fervent search of fine, luxurious art is being accompanied with a more down-to-earth chase for lower-end, affordable artworks. Unlike the fine art market, the emerging demand for personal but affordable artistic belongings has been driven by the vast number of China's middle class in mega cities, especially Beijing and Shanghai. (This program is hosted by Sam Duckett, written and produced by Yin Xiuqi)
The hardships and poverty stereotype of rural farm life is embedded in the minds of many parents in China, who are keen for their children to find decent jobs in the cities rather than out in the fields planting rice or crops. But there is an emerging group of young people, born in the 1980s or 1990s, who are trying to shatter the age-old image of traditional Chinese peasants with their use of modern equipment in farming. (This program is hosted by Sam Duckett, written and produced by Yin Xiuqi)
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