In Henan, the party boss is trying to move millions of farmers into the cities. He just needs to find a way around central government limits on the amount of land that can be converted for urban use.
After the government banned public kindergartens from running preparatory courses, one school found another way to keep the lucrative classes going - moving building.
China’s two northern municipalities, Beijing and Tianjin, have been battling for state planners’ attention for decades, but the capital may have lost its edge recently.
The coastal province of Guangdong was the first beneficiary of China’s export-driven growth, but some villagers still regret the day that factories replaced farms.
Fujian has put its air raid shelters to new uses after tensions eased with its eastern neighbor, Taiwan. Instead of terrified citizens, the shelters now hold bananas.
Two decades of rising tea prices were a boon for villagers in Fujian, but the girls who used to work the plantations now want jobs in factories and shops.
We sit in on a lesson at the communist party school in Fujian where the students are made to ponder the tension between maintaining stability and defending civil rights.
Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Kung Fu, now attracts 1.5 million visitors a year, but its popularity has created tension between its Buddhist abbot and local officials.
Wenzhou's iconic entrepreneurs started disappearing in autumn, but with the city's network of trust in tatters, it's now the lenders who are on the run.
Cai Qi, a senior party official in Zhejiang, has 5 million people following his microblog, where he has shared his thoughts on his city's scenery, smoking and depression.
The anonymous microblogger who made government officials afraid to check the time in public says trust has broken down between society and the government.
Liu Hong stood for election the lowest level of the people’ congress, asking party-approved rivals “when the government is harming the people which side will you choose?”
From the transport ministry to Hunan and Xinjiang, journalists track Zhang Chunxian’s every promotion, but he's best known as the highest-ranking official on weibo.
China’s most ardently-read blogger is known among interviewers for being uncooperative, but he comes to life describing his success and castigating F1 fans.
