A copy editor and writer with China Daily USA in New York, Chris Davis is a graduate of the University of Virginia and served two years as a volunteer with the United States Peace Corps in Kenya.
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For many Westerners, pinyin appears as yet another barrier to learning Chinese.
Far and away, China has grown into the largest trading partner with the Africa, the world's poorest continent. As the Economist reports, China and Africa exchange $160 billion in goods each year, and over the past decade, more than a million Chinese, mostly laborers and merchants, have moved there.
Chinese brands are facing an uphill climb among US consumers. China may be the largest source of imports to the US, yet, according to a couple of surveys done recently, only 6 percent of American consumers can name even one Chinese brand.
Every year in China there are about 300,000 patients who need an organ transplant but only about 10,000 surgeries are performed. That according to Huang Jiefu, former vice-minister of health.
Just in time for the season of reform and New Year's resolutions, comes a new book that uses ancient Chinese philosophy to argue that sometimes trying hard is not the best way to get ahead.
China announced late last week that its Academy of Military Medical Sciences has developed an Ebola vaccine that has been approved to enter the human test stage.
China should come to the table with the international technology community as an equal participant in the new types of technology that we're now bringing into the global economy, like the Internet of Things or Cloud Computing.
Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, used his visit to Washington to highlight the urgency of saving elephants from being slaughtered to extinction for their tusks.
An editor and writer at China Daily USA in New York, William Hennelly is a print and digital media veteran. He previously was managing editor of TheStreet.com financial news website in New York, and has worked at daily newspapers in New Jersey. Hennelly is a journalism graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
General manager of China Daily USA's San Francisco bureau. Based in the Bay Area, she covers a wide range of topics including corporate news, Silicon Valley innovation, US-China cooperation in various forms and profiles of interesting personalities, as well as overseeing office operations.
Chen Weihua is the Chief Washington Correspondent of China Daily and Deputy Editor of China Daily USA. He is also a columnist, with a particular focus on US politics and US-China relations.
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