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Children make toy block constructions at an animation show in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Traditional construction toys remained the top sellers on Amazon China's 2013 toy sales list, accounting for 25 percent of last year's sales. Li Zhong / for China Daily
Smarter toys for smarter girls and boys.Traditional playthings are perhaps becoming a thing of the past in China, as technology advances globally and incomes rise nationally. Shi Jing and Wei Tian in Shanghai report.
Holiday Nation
Prime Minister Najib praises four decades of close friendship
Holiday Focus
China's toys and games industry boomed in pace with the economy from 2006 to 2012.
Holiday International and Comment
Two women, including a Chinese national, who were kidnapped on the Malaysian island of Borneo in early April have been freed with no ransom demanded by the abductors, Malaysian media reported.
Holiday People
For more than 2,000 years, traders in China have been using a type of scale known as a "steelyard" for weighing commodities of all kinds, including grain, livestock and vegetables. While more sophisticated weighing technologies have since been invented, many traders still use steelyards, particularly in small towns and villages, relying on their accurate measurements for their daily business.
Holiday Image
Poverty did not prevent children from taking good photographs that touched the hearts of audiences.
Holiday Read
China trains social workers to meet demands of welfare expansion in nearly 50 cities
Holiday Trend
Zhang Bing's most satisfying and exciting film-viewing experience this year has been the Hollywood blockbuster The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which hit the screens on May 4, right after the three-day Labor Day holiday. More surprising is its ticket price - just 20 yuan ($3.20). "It's that cheap because the theater (where it was released) opened recently," says Zhang who works as a clerk in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Zhang is among those Chinese moviegoers who make it a point to go to the cinema whenever a film they consider intriguing is released.
Holiday Business
Automobiles and the Internet are two revolutionary inventions to greatly change people's lives and promote society's development over the past century.
Holiday Travel
At the start of the Sui Dynasty (AD 581-618), when the country was unified after 300 years of chaos, the Zhaoxian county of Hebei province was a key route that linked the north and south. However the crossroad was often blocked by the Jiaohe River, especially during flood season. So the idea to build a bridge across the water was born. The Zhaozhou Bridge, locally nicknamed Dashiqiao, "big stone bridge", is built between AD 605 and 618, and is now one of the oldest and most renowned stone arch bridges in the world.
Holiday Sports
Outspoken Ernests Gulbis claimed on Friday that women should not play professional tennis and that they would be better served having children instead.
Qingdao Special
Authorities in Qingdao, a coastal city and economic hub in Shandong province, expect science and technology to play a more important role in driving local growth, according to the city's science and technology bureau.
Auto Special
He's developing part of Iceland, climbed the highest peaks and drives an i3 electric by BMW
Auto Special
In the increasingly connected world, intelligence has become the name of the game. Phones are smarter. Watches are smarter. Even eyewear has gained smart functionality.
Auto China 2014
Although more local governments are likely to implement policies to curb new car sales, the Chinese auto market still has great potential for growth in the long run and even in the next two years, said industry insiders.
Entrepreneur Special
When Sheila Zhang, who has lived in the United States for 20 years, returned to Beijing in 2011 she found shopping online to be problematic.
Entrepreneur Special
From a country boy to the leader of a multi-faceted company, Han Xuechen believes that a sense of commitment to society is crucial to success.
