Every June 1, something happens that surprises most first-time visitors: Children’s Day in China turns into a nationwide celebration. Schools swap lessons for games. Museums and parks throw open their gates for free. Parents take the afternoon to spoil their kids. To a Western traveller, the obvious question follows fast — why does China have…
Beijing Jiaotong University rarely grabs the headlines that Tsinghua or Peking University do. Yet board almost any bullet train in China, and you are riding through a system its graduates and labs helped shape. In December 2025, the national high-speed rail network passed 50,000 kilometres of track — more than the rest of the world…
At dawn on Wugong Mountain, the crowd does something strange. Hundreds of campers crawl out of tents pitched on a high green ridge, turn to face east, and go quiet. Then the sun breaks over a rolling sea of cloud — and the whole hillside cheers. This single scene has turned Wugong Mountain into one…
