In the 1600s, people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.

As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

The biggest gains go to countries that import most of their oil like China, Japan, and India.

Marco Polo may have brought the kite back from his visit to China.

In fact, they’ve been in use for centuries.25 centuries ago, kites were well-known in China.

In ancient China, they were used to carry ropes across rivers.

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34 arrived in the re

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a?staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.

On the first of January, new regulations will come into effect which eliminate an annual leave bonus for people who put off marrying until the age of 23 for women and 25 for men, the South China Morning Post reports.

The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China, India and Korea.

They may be ancient "beer-making tools", and the earliest direct evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

While digging two pits at a site in the central plains of China, scientists discovered fragments from pots and vessels.

Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.

Yong Yu, a Chinese microbiologist, showed off the spacious building, with empty desks under an illustrated timeline detailing the rapid growth of China's Antarctic operations since the 1980s.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

However, Brazil's stretch of misfortune has created opportunities for China, with a Chinese company winning the $100 million contract in 2015 to rebuild the Brazilian station.

China's newly renovated Great Wall Station on King George Island makes the Russian and Chilean bases here seem outdated.

China has arguably the fastest growing operations in Antarctica.

Asia led the way, with the biggest number from China followed by Japan and India, most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small numberof people.

But China is a society that has long esteemed personal financial prudence（謹慎）.

trillion China holds in reserve, currency traders have a heart attack

When China starts to reduce its current foreign reserves.

When China talks about switching its dollar reserves to other currencies

When Beijing mentions in public the huge debts America owes China.

To promote understanding between China and America

Internet rescue camps in South Korea and China try to save kids addicted to the screen.

However, once China began embracing free-market reforms in the 1980s, followed by India in the 1990s, both countries achieved rapid growth.

What has contributed to the rapid economic growth in China and India

General Motors sells as many cars in China as in America each month.

She took care never to throw her best china.

It is, however, in China that Esperanto has had its greatest impact.

What does the speaker say about Esperanto in China

From a political perspective, we need to understand the terms on which major countries like China and the USA might sign up to a global agreement because at the moment we don't have that consensus.

The earliest printed book we know today appeared in China in the year 868, and metal type was in use in Korea at the beginning of the 1'th century, but it was in Germany around the year 1450 that a printing press using movable metal type was invented.