Nearly 20 years after the sector entered a decline, skills-based learning is making a comeback, as Hou Liqiang and Li Yingqing report from Kunming.The prospects for the nation's vocational schools, the traditional centers of technical education, are becoming brighter as a result of government calls ...

Mainland stocks fell for the first time in eight days, halting its longest-winning streak since May, as financial and commodity companies slumped.The Shanghai Composite Index fell below 3,000 points after rising above that level for the first time in two months on Monday. Trading volumes were 30 per...

Cherry blossoms more popular than ever As many as 240,000 visitors poured into Gucun Park in Baoshan district last weekend to see the cherry blossoms. Attendance was up 40,000 from the same period last year, Eastday.com reported. As more are likely to flower with the warming weather, the park is exp...

China's yuan fell by the most this month after the United States Federal Reserve Board ended its bond-purchase program and signaled it is prepared to raise borrowing costs. The People's Bank of China cut the daily reference rate by 0.08 percent, the most since Aug 21, to 6.1457 per dollar. Kenix Lai...

The Shanghai-to-Hong Kong stock price convergence trade is spurring record inflows into exchange-traded funds that invest in the Chinese mainland.The two biggest ETFs tracking A shares attracted about $2.5 billion from the end of May through Wednesday, the most for any similar period since they both...