Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

The other China

  • China’s Ukraine peace plan 'important signal', says Zelenskiy – video

    'I really want to believe that China will not supply weapons to Russia', said Zelenskiy, as he cautiously welcomed China's peace plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine 

  • A couple in Hefei converted a bus into a home near newly-constructed residential buildings in Hefei.

    'I'm very sceptical': residents of China's growing cities discuss life amid change

    From Hefei to Honghu, readers across China share their stories about how their cities are changing – and what the county’s rapid urbanisation means for them
  • Li River and Guilin

    A river of rubbish: the ugly secret threatening China's most beautiful city

    An ‘international tourism destination of peerless beauty’ say the slogans hanging in the streets of Guilin, but the scenic city’s rivers have recently been home to sewage and garbage. In a country where environmentalists are charged with anti-government espionage, will the authorities intervene?
  • China<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Imaginechina/REX/Shutterstock (5089801a)
Landscape of the Yulong River through karst hills in Yangshuo county, Guilin city, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
China

    垃圾之河:水污染威胁中国最美城市

    “桂林山水甲天下”的标语在桂林市的街道上随处可见。但最近,这个风景秀丽的城市却饱受河流污染的困扰。在环保人士被指控为反政府人员的大环境之下,相关机构会出面介入污染问题吗?
  • Dalian

    Demolishing Dalian: China's 'Russian' city is erasing its heritage – in pictures

  • 义乌市“中东街”,中东、北非的食品店和餐馆林立。图片来源:菲利普·洛佩兹/法新社/盖帝图像

    欢迎来到义乌:中国的多元文化试验田

  • Markets and foodstalls line the streets of Yiwu

    Welcome to Yiwu: China's testing ground for a multicultural city

  • ​作者郭小橹新千年伊始第一次回乡探亲留念。

    我的家乡温岭曾经连红绿灯都没有,而如今已有140万人口

    郭小橹
  • Thousands of confiscated share bikes - many from Mobike (orange and silver) and Ofo (yellow).

    Uber for bikes: how 'dockless' cycles flooded China – and are heading overseas

  • Trailer for The Square 1985-2016 by Chen Zhixian

    30 years in the life of one Chinese square – in pictures

  • Les Avenirs de Lanzhou - Histoire d'Urbanisation dans le Nord-Ouest chinoisLanzhou New Area.

    China goes west: a ghost city in the sand comes to life

    Mountains have been flattened and villages bulldozed to build Lanzhou New Area in China’s wild west. Four years ago Tom Phillips met empty streets and an eerie hush, but now he finds this improbable desert mirage finally filling up
  • Lanzhou New Area.

    中国鬼城开始复苏

    一座接一座的高山被铲平,一个接一个的村庄被拆迁,在中国西部的甘肃省,兰州新区的建设正如火如荼地进行着。四年前,汤姆·菲利普斯第一次到访兰州新区时,空荡荡的街道让整个城区安静地有些诡异。上个月,当他再次来到这里,曾经如海市蜃楼般的美好幻境如今却逐渐变得真实起来。
  • Yiwu in 1984 and 2016

    The great sprawl of China: timelapse images reveal 30-year growth of cities

    Timelapse videos show the staggering growth of cities such as Shenzhen, Dongguan and Yiwu, which three decades ago were barely on the map
  • New towers

    “这些公寓一半都空着”:毛泽东故乡的增长困境

    和中国许多二线城市一样,历史名城长沙的经济正在以惊人的速度增长,10年460%的增长率也让交通拥堵、空气污染、住房过剩以及服务过度等问题接踵而至。生活在这些变化中是怎样的体验?
  • Author Xiaolu Guo on her first return to Wenling in the early 2000s.

    My village didn't even have a traffic light. Now it has 1.4 million people

    Xiaolu Guo
    When author Xiaolu Guo was a child, her village was a remote farming settlement. Now, like hundreds of others across China, it has become a metropolis with four-lane roads, a cancer epidemic … and even a new language
    • The other China week: what it is and how you can be involved

    • 'Half these apartments are empty': Mao’s former home city struggles with growth

    • More than 100 Chinese cities now above 1 million people

  • China Himalayas Center, Greenland Tower, Harbin Opera House and the Guiyang Towers

    Put us on the map, please: China's smaller cities go wild for starchitecture

    From mountain-shaped apartment blocks to the centre of braised chicken reinventing itself as ‘Solar Valley’, China’s second (and third) tier cities are hiring big-name architects to get them noticed
  翻译: