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Since the beginning of 2020, the covid-19 pandemic has brought dramatic changes to the lives of Chinese people. Some lost their jobs, while others found new business opportunities out of the crisis.

Data from the Commerce Ministry shows that there were over 4 million live streaming shows during the first quarter of 2020. Over 100 mayors and village officials joined the trend to sell local agricultural products. As China continues its work of poverty alleviation, the question is how to guarantee a sustainable development for rural areas after they've been lifted out of poverty?

As China seems to have contained the spread of coronavirus successfully, deputies of the ongoing National People’s Congress session have been discussing measures including faster responses, better resource distribution, and long-term prevention measures that ensure China will be fully prepared for public health crises in future.

The docudrama My Stolen Life was adapted from a real-life story. As some tragedies began, they would never end. Most cases of missing children end with parents spending years, or the rest of their lives looking for their lost child. A mother in southwest China found her son after three years of searching across the nation, but she never knew her troubles were far from over.

As the world is hit by the coronavirus, small cities can be especially vulnerable in terms of crisis management. Check out this story about how a highly responsive information sharing system helps a small city in Hubei province, that was once out of medical supplies, finally manage the fight against the epidemic.

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in January of this year, medical staff in China has been fighting like warriors, while the public has also joined the fight against the epidemic in different ways. Let’s have a panoramic glimpse of what this has been like.

Being a teacher in China's under-developed areas is widely seen as noble and respectful. It is more so if one chose to work in the rural areas of the country's far west Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in her youthful years. Written and produced by Lu Chang. Zhang Wan voices the story.

Yongku Unity Village is in south Xinjiang's Kuqa County, since the 1960s, its multi-ethnic population has included the Han people, Uyghurs, Hui, and Kazaks, who all live together in this village. Over the decades, they've worked together, held long-lasting friendships, and even built families with each other. The story tells how cow breeding has helped engender multi-ethnic friendships in Xinjiang. Written and produced by Lu Chang. Yang Yong voices the story.

Many people believe that human beings are shaped by the environment around them. The blue sky, white clouds, high mountains and wide horizons, such boundless vistas of nature could just as well have an influence over people's lives in Xinjiang. Maybe it's this landscape that has nurtured people from different ethnic groups in Yongku village to be unpretentious, passionate, bold and unconstrained. Perhaps that's also the reason why romantic love stories happen here, despite cultural differences. This episode is written and produced by Lu Chang. Yang Yong voices the story

In many parts of China’s underdeveloped rural areas, education has been facing challenges due to poverty and a lack of awareness of its importance. And this used to be the situation in Yongku, a small village located in China’s far west Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where school was nonexistent before the 1960s. But later, the local educational environment was changed by a group of migrant workers, in addition to generations of local people who have been making efforts to create a better life through education over the past few decades.

A young beauty meets the love of her life while asleep. Hear how that worked out on this edition of Selfie.

Well-educated young Chinese have launched various startups or farms to make agricultural innovations or apply the newest technologies. As they transform the agriculture sector, their presence and activities have brought new dynamics to life in the countryside, attracting urban residents back for sightseeing or recreation.

A widespread greeting in China during the Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year, is "Wishing you have fish every year"; which means wishing you the best of luck and prosperity every year，as the Chinese character of “fish” is homophonic to the character of “abundance”. Good wishes have become reality in Jilin Province's Chagan Lake, in China's northeast. Millions of tourists have seen the catch from the local winter fishing season, and have been impressed by the "walls of fish" on the frozen lake. In 2008, a single net yielded 168 thousand kilograms of fish, breaking the Guinness World Record. But how can one natural lake yield so much fish? Let's see if Lake Chagan will give up some of its secrets.

Yang Baosen was one of the most famous Peking Opera masters of the last century who developed a singing technique that still bears his name－Yang Pai, or Yang style. This year marks the 110th birthday of Yang Baosen. But why was Yang considered to be the Van Gogh of Peking Opera?

To feed 20 percent of the world’s population with only seven percent of the world’s arable land is certainly a challenge. But that’s what China has been working on for the last 70 years. With a population of 1.4 billion, China faces a tremendous task: how to feed so many mouths? We explored a remote place called Qixing Farm in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province to find the answer.

Tea or coffee, which one do you prefer? Here in a traditionally tea-drinking country, a growing number of people are pouring coffee into their cups. The rather exotic and middle-class beverage has witnessed double digit growth in demand over recent years along with China's opening-up to the outside world and improvement in people's living standards. In some big cities, going out to drink coffee have even become a daily routine and lifestyle for mostly young people. But all these development was unimaginable some four decades ago when poverty and a rejection of a seemingly Western lifestyle allowed no place for the beverage in ordinary Chinese daily life. So how did Chinese people develop a taste for coffee?

Non-profit organizations and young college graduates in China are joining hands to bring quality education to students living in underdeveloped regions.

Continue to join Manling to hear stories from our guest Joy Chen, who is well known in China for becoming the deputy mayor of Los Angeles at the age of 31 and for her 2012 book “Do Not Marry Before Age 30”.

Let's follow Manling to hear stories from Joy Chen, who is well known in China for becoming the deputy mayor of Los Angeles at the age of 31 and for her 2012 book “Do Not Marry Before Age 30”.

The number 127 was a signpost in the career of the former investment banker turned NGO founder Chung To. He’s now the head of the Chi Heng Foundation, the NGO he established in Hong Kong in 1998 with a mere 100 Hong Kong dollars. His decision was driven more by instinct than logic: He had an impulse to help people whose lives were turned upside down by the raging AIDS epidemic. This instinct grew stronger and stronger until, in 2001, he left the world of finance and invested everything he had – money, time, and care – into running Chi Heng. The following year, Chi Heng would rescue its first group of AIDS orphans, 127 in all.