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Crowds visit Tian'anmen Square to experience the atmosphere as the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee opens in Beijing on Saturday. Cui Jiani and her parents from Hebei province posed for photos in front of a giant LED screen displaying China's achievements since the reform and opening-up policy. The historic policy was adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee in 1978. Xu Jingxing / China Daily
When the 18th Party Congress elected new leadership a year ago, they pledged to take new steps toward realizing the Chinese dream. On Saturday, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Party Congress opened with the goal of creating a roadmap for reform and economic planning.
Sunday News
When the 18th Party Congress elected new leadership a year ago, they pledged to take new steps toward realizing the Chinese dream. On Saturday, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Party Congress opened with the goal of creating a roadmap for reform and economic planning.
Sunday Special
Beijing's maiden hutong museum not only houses historical relics but also is itself a relic.
Sunday People
Five years ago Han Nianshi lived a happy student life and dreamed of settling down overseas for a "white-collar life" after graduation.
Sunday Expat
Lydia Kathure, a Meru girl from Kenya, had never thought of going to China, much less living there. But when she met a Chinese man named Liu Guihai in 2006, her life changed. She was visiting a friend at a supermarket in the port city of Mombasa. Liu, first mate of a Chinese ship, was buying some food for his vessel.
Sunday Image
A major road opened recently, linking Medog county in the Tibet autonomous region to the rest of the country, as workers continue to refurbish other roads in the region.
Sunday Sports
If Stanislas Wawrinka's life depended on the outcome of one tennis match, he would surely want Rafa Nadal fighting in his corner. And while the stakes were not as high as life or death on Friday, the Swiss player's fate was in safe hands.
Art Special
Wang Baoan uses ink and water color to find the 'spirit of life', Zhuan Ti reports.
Sunday Life
Oh, no, I thought when I heard that the Museum of Modern Art's big fall show was a Rene Magritte survey. Dozens of undersung modernist painters, many of them women, on at least five continents, have never had a New York moment, and here we're getting an artist we practically can't avoid. The pipe; the giant eye; the choo-choo in the fireplace.
Lifestyle Trends
For nearly two decades, Namibia has been part of an ambitious experiment in both community tourism and wildlife conservation, known as communal conservancies. "The idea was to fight poaching by restoring control over wildlife to the local people," said John Kasaona, the director of Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation. "We wanted to show them that they could benefit financially from keeping these animals alive, in particular from wildlife tourism."
Science and Technology
EMERYVILLE, California - Vanilla, saffron, patchouli. For centuries, spices and flavorings like these have come from exotic plants growing in remote places like the jungles of Mexico or the hillsides of Madagascar. Some were highly prized along ancient trading routes like the Silk Road.
Arts and Styles
When the D.J. duo Nervo, the Australian twins Olivia and Miriam Nervo, first began spinning three years ago, they used to shock people just by showing up.
Sunday Food
I was still trying to resolve my feelings about the three hairy crabs I'd eaten for lunch - ridiculously rich and sumptuous, yes, but a questionable return on investment given all the cracking and digging involved - when we arrived at the Slender West Lake.
Sunday Kaleidoscope
American jazz master Herbie Hancock tours China this weekend, giving concerts in Beijing's MasterCard Center on Saturday and Shanghai's Mercedes-Benz Arena today. This is the first time Hancock has brought his own band to perform in China, though he has played in Shanghai and Beijing before.
Sunday Travel
The immense cypress tree at mile marker 54.5 of the Tamiami Trail - the highway that cuts across the Everglades in southern Florida - looks like it belongs in a fairytale. Draped in robes of Spanish moss, the tree stands above its mirror image, reflected in a pond.
Entrepreneur Special
Qian Dejun believes in Chinese consumers. But the Anhui-born entrepreneur's faith is unorthodox among his contemporaries.
