To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, Roseann Lake made mooncakes with pastry chef Zhong Ling. She then learned the traditional art of dough modeling from master Xu Haifeng.

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Now wealth is nothing without health. So where do you go to keep trim. Well gyms for most pockets exist in China's larger cities and towns. And an interesting aspect of many Chinese towns is the free community exercise areas; it's not unusual to see people exercising winter or summer while they chat to their friends. But most of these outdoor gym rats tend to be older people. With the fast pace of modern life, do others have time to take exercises usually? Do they go to gym? Our researcher Goldie Huang went on the streets off Beijing and asked.

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Sports camp, church camp, Four-H… many American kids go to camp in the summer. But how many go to school? In the US most don’t, unless they’re in danger of failing that grade. But in China, students go to summer school to get ahead…and it starts with intense pre-school. BON’s Susan Tart tells us why students are attending school – after it’s out for the summer.

Since China reformed its public holiday system in 2008 the traditional (PIC) Mid-autumn festival has become an official one day holiday. This year it fell on a Wednesday, making it awkward for anybody who has to travel to spend the day with family. So how do people manage? Well most of the country uses a system of swapping weekends for work days to ensure a few days off together. This year that meant working the following Saturday and Sunday. And it’s complicated even more because of the upcoming national holiday on October 1st. So are people happy about this system and how did they arrange the holiday? Well, that’s what we went out and asked in today’s Straight for the Street.