New books on Chinese language, history, as well as morality and law to be handed out to junior and primary students at start of autumn semester.
New books on Chinese language, history, as well as morality and law to be handed out to junior and primary students at start of autumn semester
President Xi Jinping leads the call for more trained-up professionals in AI, circuitry, quantum tech, cybersecurity and other hi-tech areas.
China’s consumers are changing their spending priorities as the economic situation changes, a think tank has argued in a report, necessitating changes to the measures intended to spur consumption.
Some US schools have lost 89 per cent of their Chinese enrolment since 2017, but China still accounts for most international students seeking American degrees.
With stability waning in China’s contentious job market, the lure of long-term jobs in rustic regions hearkens back to Mao Zedong’s Down to the Countryside Movement.
Three years after a crackdown on China’s private tutoring industry, the sector has not disappeared – in fact, demand is high as ever – and recent rhetoric suggests official stances may be softening.
Lee died aged 97, after a lifetime of nurturing talent and building China’s sci-tech sector through academic and practical programmes.
The increase of politics and law majors could trigger a private-sector brain drain, jeopardising China’s science and technology ambitions.
China appears to have entered a stage when the pursuit of wealth is seen as something suspicious, not glorious.
Despite a broad decline in Chinese family assets, overseas study tours have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, but the destination landscape has changed.
Victim’s online complaint prompted swift action, but social media is too often the only path students can take, activists say.
Japan’s expensive, inefficient approach will not get China back on the right track, and neither will the coercion of the one-child policy.
The country has struggled with an ageing population and a plummeting birth rate, with nearly 15,000 kindergartens closing in 2023.
As China’s students face an uncertain job market – and the country pledges more resources to tech – they are opting to study science, helping to maintain an ‘engineering dividend’ as the population declines.
Amid deteriorating relations with European governments, Beijing must clarify its positions and help set up an equitable power balance.
A small group of students in China have become the first in the country to have their university admission letters delivered by drone.
More primary and secondary schoolchildren are participating in pilot programmes to improve their military awareness and skills.
A restaurant owner in China who gave language lessons to his bungling staff because of their inability to write Chinese characters in orders has attracted 30,000 humorous comments online.
When an overjoyed prisoner shared news of his son’s exam success with prison wardens, the guards allowed him a rare telephone call to congratulate the boy.
The 50 undergraduates will study wildlife protection and conservation at first-of-its-kind panda institute in Sichuan province.
A schoolboy in China whose teacher marked his creative answer in maths test as incorrect has received wide support after a post of his paper was viewed 110 million times online.
A mother in China has inspired many after she received a prestigious graduate degree while juggling her work and family.
A secondary school in China is under fire after forcing students to stand while eating at the canteen and separating students by gender.
A seven-year-old boy in China with his head buried in a psychology book on a subway train was spotted by a professor from a top university who immediately invited him to visit the institution’s campus.
Yunnan Agricultural University is now accepting students into its new undergraduate degree in coffee science and engineering.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called employment a ‘most basic livelihood concern’, pledging to make youth employment a top policy priority.
