Jincheng, China News

More than 260 prefecture-level Chinese cities are building digital geographic systems to provide better services to citizens, the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation said on Wednesday.

A village in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province may have no other choice but to sell a Project Hope primary school built with the help of a Japanese benefactor.

After more than a century ripping out its insides to supply coal to the rest of the country, the heavily mined and polluted province of Shanxi in northern China is in the midst of a gas boom.

Directed and shot by Yao Hung-I - a protege of the Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien, who produced Hometown Boy - the film follows Liu on a return visit to Jincheng, where he visits family and old friends, contemplates the changes he encounters, and sets out to capture it all on canvas.