China has launched its first ever Public Transport Week. The campaign is aimed at easing traffic and improving air quality. It includes a car-free day encouraging people to leave their private cars at home and use public transport. The campaign has...
China's top economic planner is telling local departments to keep prices stable for the upcoming Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays. The National Development and Reform Commission forbids manipulating market prices. The NDRC wants local pricing au...
For the Chinese athletics team, the World Athletics Championships is considered a test event in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games. The biggest winners at the championshipsthis time were the U.S. team, who had every reason to celebrate at the cl...
Boys and girls are equal, but it could take generations to change centuries of tradition. The abandonment of baby girls isn't the only consequence of the one child policy. When a child doesn't have any brothers and sisters, something else may happen....
After meeting the foster moms, we all walk to the actual orphanage where Marissa was brought as a baby. We're told there are about 500 children living at this orphanage. There are tens of thousands of children just like them across China. All around...
(she is very proud) of Chinese heritage. I feel some disgraced, because all of us, so many Chinese people, and give little help, help to the little, little girl but you can give. We're, we're the lucky ones to have her. In all my years of covering Ch...
(Oh, really?) You just see this inexplicable joy on everyone's face. The feeling makes me get chills just thinking about it right now. It was awesome. I want one. While most of the families are getting to know their new children, I go with Denny Hawl...
(and I'll be) an orphan. But my mom and dad adopted me and I'm pretty happy. Today was one of the most emotional workdays I've ever had. The anxiety and the anxiousness was just something that I have never witnessed before. This is the moment, you kn...
Chinese officials now say that the gender imbalance poses a major threat to China and could trigger crimes like prostitution, forced marriages and abductions of women. These crimes have already begun. Zhu Wenguang is a private detective who earns his...
Why is a boy so important? A girl is a person, too. I was angry. I told him, If you want to send me back to Hubei, I can't stop you. You think boys are so important, you can just stay here alone. That's what I told him then. 'If I have a girl, I'll t...
