Highlights from chinadaily.com.cn

Photo: Women from a vocational school model qipao during Qipao Culture Week in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Saturday. Qipao are body-hugging Chinese dresses for women, created in the 1920s in Shanghai and made fashionable by socialites and upper-class women.

Video: Thirty exhibitors took part in the Czech Slovak Chinese Food Festival in Beijing. The food festival plays an important role in introducing famous Czech and Slovak brands to China.

News talk: Chongyang Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday to show honor and respect to elders, and this year's Chongyang Festival falls on Oct 13. But Chinese people are spending less and less time with their parents, partly due to tight work schedules or great distances separating them. How much time do you spend with your parents?

China life: Chinese cities are on a subway construction spree. It's interesting to see how different Chinese subway systems can be from those in other countries.

(China Daily USA 10/14/2013 page3)