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Rural China

TRADITIONAL CULTURE

A Tiny Rural Community’s Grand Effort to Welcome the Ancestral God | Photo Story

Despite having only six households left, the “parading of the god” ceremony in Fujian’s Weixiang village continues each year, alive with color, techn…

Hayley Zhao, Cao Ying, and Wu Cixin

Nov. 4, 2025

TRAVEL

How a Small Chinese Village Is Welcoming Translators Worldwide

From century-old villages to China’s first translator residency, Songyang is drawing young entrepreneurs and global visitors while preserving its cul…

Hayley Zhao & Jiayu Zhang (张佳羽)

Oct. 20, 2025

TECHNOLOGY

Smart Nation: How AI Is Reshaping Life in China and Making Waves Abroad

Discover how AI is helping China’s savvy merchants boost sales, addressing challenges like aging populations in villages, and revolutionizing the way…

The Editors

July 2, 2025

SOCIETY

Smart Earth: How AI Is Rewriting Rural China

In China’s changing countryside, young farmers and local officials are embracing AI to tackle conundrums from the aging population to pest control

Yang Tingting (杨婷婷)

May 30, 2025

TRAVEL

Azheke’s Shared Prosperity: From Remote Hamlet to Global Spotlight

Once a poverty-stricken village in the mountains of Yunnan, Azheke has turned tourism into a lifeline, distributing dividends among locals while pres…

Anson Zong-Liscum (安森)

March 28, 2025

ENVIRONMENT

As Lychee Harvests Dwindle, Guangdong’s Farmers and Artists Ponder How to Take on Climate Change

In the face of increasingly extreme weather conditions, unlikely bonds are being forged in the southern province between concerned citizens and the g…

Shihuan Chen

Feb. 5, 2025

FICTION

What Comes After the Pigs? | Short Story

During a rural Chinese family reunion after the Lunar New Year, a man and his pigs became the unexpected center of attention

Liang Hao (梁豪) & Dylan Levi King

Dec. 3, 2024

LIFE

Can Young Chinese Sustain Their Newfound Rural Life by Simply Farming the Land?

As competition in cities increases, a small but growing contingent of Chinese youth are returning to the countryside to till the land and look for in…

Shao Yefan

July 30, 2024

TRAVEL

Viral Hinterland: The Famous Chinese County That No One Visits

Journeying through the viral Shandong county netizens once dubbed the “center of the universe”

Sam Davies

June 4, 2024

TRADITIONAL CULTURE

How One Village Sows the Seeds of Wealth at Lunar New Year

The people of Fengxi village celebrate the Lunar New Year with a unique folk ritual involving sugarcane, deities, and fire

Huang Ruide (黄瑞德) & Liu Jue (刘珏)

Feb. 15, 2024

ENVIRONMENT

Catching China’s Bird Poachers

”Why go to so much trouble for a bird?”

Original & Ana Padilla Fornieles

Jan. 16, 2024

SOCIETY

Digital Babysitters: Battling Phone Addiction in China’s Rural Schools

The growth of cellphone addiction among China’s “left-behind” children and the researchers and teachers fighting against it

Yang Tingting (杨婷婷)

Nov. 16, 2023

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