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Olympics and sports industry in spotlight at two sessions China Daily | Updated: 2021-03-15 09:36 Share CLOSE Ice hockey lovers take part in training at a rink in Zhangjiakou economic development zone in Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province, Dec 12, 2020. In recent years, Zhangjiakou has acted to promote ice and snow sports, upgrade its ice and snow sports facilities and strengthen related industries, in a bid to attract more and more people to join various sports. [Photo/Xinhua] China's plan to develop into a sports powerhouse and ongoing pr...

Games rehearsals in full swing By Sun Xiaochen | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-19 09:27 Share   Athletes train at a ski field during a snowfall in Chongli district of Zhangjiakou city, North China's Hebei province, Feb 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] A series of rehearsals for the Winter Olympics' adapted sports testing program kicked off this week as Beijing 2022 organizers refuse to let the COVID-19 pandemic blow their preparations off track. Comprised of unofficial competitions, infrastructure tests and staff drills, the rehearsals at multiple ...

Posted by Sophia Cao | Mar 31, 2007 …Here in Mai, a village in Guangdong Province, southern China, a community of recyclers ekes out a living from items considered so worthless in the west that they are given away free and quickly discarded. Carrier bags and bottles are shipped here from London, Rotterdam, Hong Kong and cities within China for chopping, melting and remoulding into pellets. Like many jobs outsourced to China, it’s dirty, smelly, labour-intensive and poorly paid. There is so much rubbish to be recycled that parts of the village look like a dump. “The river is foul – we ...