Opening up to the world has brought dramatic changes to the coastal regions, which have been more developed that the inland areas

Seismologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California Santa Cruz also published a joint report on Saturday that said tests had shown the quake "clearly falls in the natural phenomena category" and was similar to the last natural earthquake in the region, which was recorded in December 2004

I was one of the torchbearers for the Beijing Olympic Games torch relay in Hefei in 2008

She was recently on the stage making the pledge to the Party on behalf of all the students who were receiving honglingjin (the red scarves worn by Chinese Young Pioneers)

Iowa's ties with China had already shown signs of increasing