Mobile payments gaining steam in rural C...

Mobile payment is gaining steam in China's rural areas, according to the country's central bank. A total of 274.883 billion mobile payment transactions were made via non-banking payment platforms in

Mobile payment gaining steam in rural Ch...

BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Mobile payment is gaining steam in China's rural areas, strengthening its dominant position in online payment in rural areas, according to the country's central bank. A t

Beijing tackles pollution in rural areas

BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Beijing authorities have rolled out new plans to fight contamination of pesticides and fertilizers and improve supervision of the rural environment. An action plan has sp

Rural revitalization critical to achievi...

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Revitalizing rural areas can stimulate economic growth and tackle the challenges that are holding back the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development G

Shanghai enhances efforts to treat rural...

SHANGHAI, March 22 (Xinhua) -- The treatment rate of household wastewater in rural areas of Shanghai has reached 75 percent, thanks to a series of measures the city has adopted in recent years. Accor

Pursuing happiness at home away from hom...

"I feel much pressured financially, from paying a bucket of sponsor fees for my kid to enter a local kindergarten to shouldering rising rent," said Zhang Juan, a 26-year-old seafood vendor at the San

Over 80 pct of waste discharged directly...

HANOI, March 19 (Xinhua) -- In Vietnam's rural areas, more than 80 percent of waste and almost all of the containers used for pesticides are not collected for proper treatment, local media reported o

Kenyan runners win Yuan'an Rural Maratho...

WUHAN, China, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's Muthike Murimi and Kiprop Jepkosgei claimed the men's and women's titles respectively at the 2019 Yuan'an Rural Marathon in China's Hubei Province on Sunday

Xinjiang invests 4 bln yuan to improve r...

URUMQI, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region said it invested nearly 4.2 billion yuan (626 million U.S. dollars) last year to improve the living conditions in rural

Commentary: China's rural revitalization...

BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- In addition to education and healthcare, the Chinese government is also turning its attention to something equally important to rural areas: toilets. The world's second-l