As traditional Chinese Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) approaches, China will begin its annual spring travel on Jan 8. With 2.35 billion passenger trips expected in 40 days, the travel is the country's largest human migration every year.
According to the anti-drought office in Guizhou province, 87 out of 88 regions have been affected by drought and 470 reservoirs have dried up. The flow in 349 rivers has been severely disrupted and more than 5.47 million people lack drinking water.
Anyone visiting Guiyang, in southwestern China, this summer, will miss the coolness and the entertainment of the National Ethnic Games, but that doesn't mean you'll lose out entirely because there are still its delicious snacks - one of its most memorable features in fact.
A book introducing the honeysuckle flower, a special medicinal herb, was published and released to the public in Southwest China's Guizhou province on Sunday, an expert said.
