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一台自动售货机里放着一排瓶装柠檬茶饮料
经济 Business

现在，奶茶也能在超市买瓶装的了

Now You Can Buy Milk Tea in a Bottle at the Supermarket
HSK 3· 3 min read
Incense sticks burning in a bronze incense burner inside a dim Chinese temple, smoke rising in the air.
信仰 Faith

奶奶带我去烧香

Grandma Takes Me to Burn Incense
HSK 3· 2 min read
Hangzhou's city skyline seen across the calm water of West Lake, with green hills in the background.
读书 Read

安安的新学校

Annan's New School
HSK 3· 2 min read
夜晚灯火通明的城隍庙
信仰 Faith

中元节：一张给祖先的桌子

The Ghost Festival: A Table Set for the Ancestors
HSK 3· 3 min read
An artist's rendering of a BeiDou navigation satellite orbiting above Earth, its solar panels extended against a starry black sky.
科技 Tech

中国手机，现在都用北斗定位

Chinese Phones Now Mostly Use China's Own Satellites, Not GPS
HSK 3· 4 min read
Sports field and gymnasium building on the Tsinghua University campus in Beijing.
大学 Universities

清华大学开学了：新生里有300多名留学生

Tsinghua Starts the Semester: 300+ New Students Are From Abroad
HSK 3· 2 min read
A plaza in Foshan, a city in Guangdong province in southern China
时政 News

处暑到了，中国南方还是很热

"End of Heat" Arrives, But Southern China Is Still Sweltering
HSK 3· 2 min read
A mother steadies a young child on a bicycle as the child learns to balance and pedal outdoors.
读书 Read

学骑车

Learning to Ride a Bike
HSK 3· 2 min read
深圳大学粤海校区的校门 / The gate of Shenzhen University's Yuehai campus
大学 Universities

新生的第一张卡

A Freshman's First Card
HSK 3· 2 min read
A smartphone store front in China with phone brand signage and displays
科技 Tech

追觅卖出第一部手机，要二十多万元

Company Sells Its First Phone — For Over 200,000 Yuan
HSK 3· 2 min read
A row of shared bikes parked along a city street in China
经济 Business

共享单车又涨价了

Shared Bikes Get More Expensive Again
HSK 3· 4 min read
New students eat together in a University of Science and Technology of China canteen in Hefei.
大学 Universities

中国科大新生：8月21日报到，还要军训十五天

USTC Freshmen Check In August 21 — Then 15 Days of Military Training
HSK 3· 3 min read
Snow-capped sacred peak of Xiannairi rising above a green valley in the Yading Nature Reserve, Sichuan
时政 News

四川稻城亚丁三个月免门票

Sichuan's Daocheng Yading Waives Entrance Fee for Three Months
HSK 3· 3 min read
A cat and a dog resting together
科技 Tech

799元能“听懂”猫狗心事？上海亚宠展上的翻译机引发热议

Can a 799-Yuan Gadget Really "Understand" Your Cat or Dog? A Pet Translator Sparks Debate at the Shanghai Expo
HSK 3· 3 min read
Cai Gao, an elderly Chinese woman with grey hair and glasses, wearing a grey cardigan over a plaid shirt, mid-speech during an interview
文化 Culture

中国画家蔡皋，八十岁拿下国际安徒生插画奖

At 80, Chinese artist Cai Gao wins the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration
HSK 3· 3 min read
厄瓜多尔总统丹尼尔·诺沃亚身穿西装接受电视采访
国际 Global

厄瓜多尔总统访华，两国迎来伙伴关系十周年

Ecuador's president visits China as the two countries mark ten years of partnership
HSK 3· 3 min read
A traditional raisin-drying house in Turpan, its upper walls built as a lattice of small square openings in mud brick to let the dry desert wind through.
读书 Read

晾房的四十天

Forty Days in the Drying House
HSK 3· 3 min read
The neon-lit facade of the Quanjude roast duck restaurant at Hepingmen, Beijing, at night
文化 Culture

北京发新政策，保护「全聚德」「稻香村」这样的老字号

Beijing issues new rules to protect old brands like Quanjude and Daoxiangcun
HSK 3· 3 min read
A China Eastern Airlines C919 jet on final approach to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport
科技 Tech

C919 第一次飞出中国

C919 flies abroad for the first time
HSK 3· 4 min read
华侨大学厦门校区的大门
大学 Universities

华侨大学新能源学院揭牌：不出国，也能读中泰合办的硕士

Huaqiao University opens a new-energy school: a China-Thailand master's program without leaving China
HSK 3· 2 min read
The sun's corona glowing around the dark disc of the moon during totality
国际 Global

欧洲迎来27年一遇日全食，西班牙121年来首次看到

Europe's rarest eclipse in 27 years — Spain's first total solar eclipse in 121 years
HSK 3· 3 min read
A Guangzhou school entrance wall with the red slogan "讲普通话 写规范字" (Speak Mandarin, write standard characters)
文化 Culture

广州人说粤语，却不会写：一场讲座，一部新字典

Guangzhou speaks Cantonese but can't write it — a lecture, and a new dictionary
HSK 3· 2 min read
A two-storey village school in Yutian County, Hebei: a long blue banner reading 「幸福在我心中 幸福在我身边」 runs along the front wall above glazed notice boards, and the concrete yard in front of it is empty.
读书 Read

没有人听的广播

The broadcast nobody listened to
HSK 3· 4 min read
Paper lanterns strung up outdoors for the Mid-Autumn Festival
文化 Culture

中秋节：家人和月亮

Mid-Autumn: the family and the moon
HSK 3· 2 min read
A mooncake cut open, showing the salted egg yolk in the middle
文化 Culture

月饼到底有多少种

How many kinds of mooncake are there?
HSK 3· 2 min read
The top of the Xi'an city wall, wide enough to cycle along
读书 Read

在西安的第一天

First day in Xi'an
HSK 3· 5 min read
A desk with an open notebook and pen
大学 Universities

申请中国大学要准备什么材料

What documents you actually need
HSK 3· 2 min read
A page of hand-brushed Chinese characters from a Yuan-dynasty album
读书 Read

奶奶的信

Grandma's letter
HSK 3· 5 min read
A high-speed train crossing Shanghai, seen from the air
科技 Tech

中国的高铁有多长

How long is China's high-speed rail network?
HSK 3· 2 min read
A dense crowd of visitors packed onto the Great Wall at Badaling
文化 Culture

十一黄金周：中国人怎么放假

Golden Week: how China takes a holiday
HSK 3· 2 min read
Travellers filling the entrance hall of Beijing West railway station
时政 News

秋天的假期怎么放

How the autumn holidays fall this year
HSK 3· 2 min read
A Christmas tree in a Shanghai metro concourse
信仰 Faith

中国人怎么过圣诞节

How Christmas is spent in China
HSK 3· 6 min read