In a shrinking village in Shaanxi, a 72-year-old puppeteer still performs for a handful of elders and children. His hands are scarred, his son won't inherit ...
Eleven American professionals — a venture capitalist, an ER nurse, a factory owner, a pastor and others — spent twelve days traveling through Shenzhen, Chengdu, rural ...
A delivery drone drops noodles outside a Shenzhen office park in twelve minutes. Eighteen hundred kilometers away in Gansu, a herder uses a small drone to ...
At 5:40 a.m. he is on a satellite-guided tractor. By 4 p.m. he is sitting in a plastic chair, opening irrigation valves 12 kilometers away with ...
In Xinjiang, the cotton harvest once brought tens of thousands of seasonal pickers. Today, machines, drones, and drip irrigation have made the fields quieter—and changed rural ...
Li Na left a Henan village for a Shenzhen assembly line at 19. Two years later, she quit to retake China's college entrance exam—and won a ...
On a remote valley in Yunnan, a Dulong Ph.D. left Beijing to build the first museum in his village — a home for a culture that ...
A day with a pineapple farmer in Guangdong's 'Ocean of Pineapples' — from dawn harvest to dinner table, showing how rural China works, adapts, and remains ...
A rice scientist from a small Anhui village spent years breeding a seed that can lower cadmium in grain. Her story shows how China's agricultural science ...
Across China's countryside, a quiet shift is underway: women who once stayed home to care for families are now running farms, shops, and livestream businesses. Here's ...