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  • Cheap and cheerful bits and bites around town

    2011-04-13

    It's not often a new restaurant that generates much buzz in a neighborhood - residents know they come and go like the spring sun. It's rarer still to find a convergence of old and new establishments creating a hub of decent cheap eats.

  • Old lantern craftsman seeks a brighter future

    2011-04-12Zhai Yuliang gently touches the delicate carvings on a rosewood Beijing palace lantern, as its crimson paint glistens in the light.

  • Devoted guardian of history

    2011-02-28In a rapidly modernizing society where culture and tradition are frequently surrendered to development needs, Zhang Wei, founder of the non-profit cultural website, oldbeijing.net, says "only the poor love culture".

  • A blood donor

    2011-02-10Thirty four red-covered certificates, five medals and four diplomas—these are the proudest collection of 32-year-old Hao Lun—a Beijing man who is taken both as a model of blood donor and an excellent AIDs volunteer in the city.

  • Qi Fang's Rabbit God

    2011-02-09A folklore begins with a disastrous famine. The Moon Goddess sent Rabbit God to save the people. Qi Fang, a 27-year-old artist, has painted the legend of Rabbit God to welcome the Year of the Rabbit.

  • Under the blue sky

    2011-01-26Lu Weiwei and Fan Tao produced their works of art about environmental protection – pictures of the sky in Beijing.

  • An attire designer

    2011-01-18Wang Hao, 27, is a designer of high-end attire in Beijing. He graduated from the Raffles Design Institute in Beijing and opened his own studio - Beijing Egret Fashion Design Studio - after he quit his first job.

  • Getting in touch with the people

    2011-01-13Being in charge of a Beijing community is a particularly tricky profession.

  • One man's library

    2011-01-12In February 2010, Shi Lei set up his book borrowing center, and now his library is famous in his reading circle.

  • A man who gets things moving

    2011-01-06Beijing's traffic police is the group mostly responsible for taking the blame from angry motorists caught up in the jams. China Daily followed one of them for a day on the streets.

  • Summit memory

    2010-12-23It was in summer, 2002. In Shishapangma, the 14th highest mountain in the world, Li Lan's fellows, five climbers from the Mountaineering Association of Peking University (MAPKU) died in an avalanche when attempting to scale Shishapangma.Seven years later, Li decided to reclimb Shishapangma to commemorate her teammates.

  • Rap-made in China

    2010-12-22Raphael, the host of the event talks about the development of hip-hop culture in China.

  • A man who gets things moving

    2010-12-22METRO followed Zhang Haijun, a senior traffic police officer with the Jinsong branch of the Chaoyang traffic police group, for a day on the roads.

  • Winter wonderland at Bird's Nest

    2010-12-21The Bird's Nest is hosting a snow festival which attracted thousands to enjoy a wide variety of winter activities.

  • On the beat with a chengguan official

    2010-12-09Security in Beijing, just like in any city of the world, is earned by competent and fair policing.

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