This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... but barges plying the Grand Canal have knit China together for 14 centuries, carrying grain, soldiers, and ideas ...

This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. China is on the brink of a huge demographic shift. Over the next two decades, an unprecedented baby boom from the 1960s ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... that has scientists around the world deeply worried—China's rapid expansion and newfound wealth are pushing carbon ...

This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sure, that stuffed animal you just won at the fair was probably made in China. But where? There’s a good chance ...

In Liaoning Province, located in the rolling farm country of northeastern China, peasant farmers make only a few hundred dollars a year. They know they can make many times that amount by selling ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. After importing nearly half of the planet’s plastic recyclables for three decades, China barred the import of most ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. More than a million people in China died from the effects of ambient air pollution in 2016, according to the World Health ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the edge of the South China Sea, the metropolis of Hong Kong flickers and glows, its iconic skyscrapers like molten ...

This story appears in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tucked high in the Qin Ling Mountains of central China, a nimble primate with a peculiar mug has conquered a pitiless ...