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Gustav Holmgren, from Sweden, is a site manager of an automotive testing company in Yakeshi, Hulun Buir City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

In Yakeshi, winter lasts six months and temperatures can plunge below minus 40 degrees Celsius. In recent years, the small city has become a robust winter automotive testing ground.

Let's talk to him to know more about his 20-year experience here and China's automotive testing industry in his eyes.

At the Seventh Tang Xianzu International Theatre Exchange Month in east China's Jiangxi Province, an English-language rendition of the Kunqu Opera masterpiece "The Peony Pavilion" was brought from Shakespeare's hometown to Fuzhou, hometown of Tang Xianzu, the author of "The Peony Pavilion." 

We talked to some international performers participating in the rendition and the festival. So in this episode, let's discover what would happen when Shakespeare meets Tangxianzu, and how a centuries-old opera masterpiece dissolves cultural boundaries for British and Chinese.

This summer, Michael Connelly, a graduate student from the University of Chicago, took a summer program organized by Peking University, attending lectures and travelling in some Chinese cities.

"China Travel" has become a top trending search term on multiple global social media platforms.

What does Michael have to share after his "China Travel"? 

Don't miss this episode and welcome to China!

Wondering where China-U.S. trade will go? We talked about ten questions into the China-U.S. trade with Dr. Xia Le, Chief Economist for Asia at Spain's second largest bank BBVA. He is also an Academic Committee Member at the International Finance Forum. Click on the play button and have a listen to the refreshing observation into the trade relation of the world's two largest economies!

In this episode, we'd like to share with you an academic workshop on the global economic prospects in 2024.

The speaker is Ayhan Kose, World Bank's Deputy Chief Economist and Director of the Prospects Group. The group produces the World Bank's flagship reports, one of which is Global Economic Prospects, discussed in this episode.

The Q&A section was moderated by Gerry Rice, Former Director of the Communications Department of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

The workshop was organized by the International Finance Forum on Feb. 28 Beijing time.

Right before the Spring Festival holiday, I sat down with my colleague Andre. Andre is from South Africa and he has lived in six different cities over the past 5 years in China. He told me Beijing is definitely his favourite. Wondering why and how are these cities like in his eyes? What are his best and worst days in China? Don't miss this episode and happy Chinese New Year!

"Chengdu is the city I plan to die in," said Matt Balcerak, an American who has been living in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province for over a decade. He'll share us his views about the city, the people and especially the food there in Chengdu. Don't miss it!

The New Development Bank (NDB) is a multilateral development bank established by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) with the purpose of mobilizing resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects in emerging markets and developing countries.

The bank has just turned eight years old. Let's sit down with Mr. Leslie Maasdorp, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the bank to know more.

"Today, we increasingly see China as a partner complementing many of the technologies in areas that we need to promote our own development in Brazil." A Brazilian scholar in Shanghai shares her thoughts on the partnership between Brazil and China.

"We may be reaching a tipping point where various countries in the world understand that China can play a constructive role, must play a constructive role to help solve crises."Josef Gregory Mahoney, an American professor in Shanghai shares his thoughts on China's major-country diplomacy.He first came to China in 1988. Now, he teaches politics and Marxism to students from China and abroad at East China Normal University.