Editor's Note: To mark the 40th anniversary of the beginning of China's reform and opening-up, China Daily is featuring a series of stories on grassroots newsmakers. This is the first in the series.

Yang Changqin (front), a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress, attends a deliberation during the fourth session of the 14th NPC. [Photo provided to China Daily] Yang Changqin turned a ...

Mayurbhanj (Odisha) [India], November 18 (ANI): Over one hundred families in the Baderaikali village of Khunta block, Mayurbhanj district, have used the traditional art of bamboo weaving as a source ...

LLOYD COTSEN BEGAN what he admits has been “a 40-year love affair” with Japanese bamboo baskets when he walked into an antique store in San Francisco in the 1950s. “I was attracted,” Cotsen says, “by ...

The Bamboo WEAVE designer fountain pen and rollerball are now available to back via Kickstarter and have been created by bamboo weaving artist Qiu Jin-Duan, who brings over 30 years of artisan ...