Residents of even the tiniest far-flung villages in China may soon be able to pay on their phones to run daily errands as Beijing announced this month that it aims to make mobile payments ubiquitous ...

In the quiet backwaters of Yunnan, Dong Meihua – though her followers know her by the public alias Dianxi Xiaoge – has done something remarkable: She’s taken the pastoral simplicity of rural China and ...

Reporting from YUFENG, China — Last fall, 30-year-old Luo Rong quit his $30,000-a-year engineering job in Shanghai, moved back to his mountaintop village of Jade Peak with his wife and newborn baby ...

QIYAN COMMUNITY, China — After her husband started making good money as an electrician here in central China, Cao Qin ended years of working as a migrant laborer hundreds of miles away and came back ...

Since the beginning of the reform period in the 1980s, millions of rural Chinese have left the countryside for opportunities in the city. According to the 2020 national census, China’s “floating ...

Communities in rural Michigan are revolting against a decision to allow a Chinese-owned firm to build a battery plant in the area, according to footage of a recent Green Charter Township board meeting ...

Editor’s note: This story has been translated into Chinese. A new comprehensive study of children’s well-being in China reveals glaring disparities in education, economic conditions and emotional ...

One often hears the Chinese Communist Party lauded for “lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty,” as the expression usually goes. And there is no denying that the CCP deserves credit for that ...

Millions of young Chinese farmers have left their villages to find work in the Dickensian factories of China's coastal cities — but not everyone in the Chinese countryside wants to take that route.

China has set itself the goal of transforming half of its rural population of 700 million people into productive, comfortable members of urban conglomerations in the next three decades. Thus far, the ...