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On June 8, Yangliuqing, an ancient town with a history of over 1,000 years in north China's Tianjin Municipality, embraced a feast of intangible cultural heritage. To mark the Cultural and Natural Heritage Day which falls on June 10 this year, a grand event was held in the town, featuring a display of the-Great-Canal-related intangible … Continued
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An expert in the preservation of cultural relics, Ma Yanru, 59, is hard at work restoring an iron sword from the Han Dynasty, that dates back over 2,000 years. Peering into a microscope, Ma finds gold threads intertwined on the sword and wood grains on the scabbard. She concludes that the grains suggest the material … Continued
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China has doubled down on sustained efforts to do well in the "long-term historical mission of the "three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program" in a bid to counter sandstorms and soil erosion in its northern region. Over the past four decades, the program has increased the forest area by 30.14 million hectares, according to 2018 data. China's … Continued
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In recent years, with the gradual implementation of the country's carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals and the solid advancement of developing north China's Hebei Province into a new energy powerhouse, State Grid Hebei Electric Power Co., Ltd., the local branch of China's largest power grid company, saw rapid development of its new energy business. … Continued
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In September 2021, a Beijing resident called a city hotline to report there were no bus routes near a newly built school in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area. CGTN: Why is people-centered development crucial to China? Two months later, a new bus route was launched. The Chinese capital, a metropolis housing over 20 million people, … Continued
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About three quarters of Beijing's water supply comes from a reservoir more than 1,000 kilometers south of the Chinese capital. That reservoir is Danjiangkou, the starting point of the middle route of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the largest of its kind in the world. The water level of the reservoir on the Hanjiang River … Continued
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Hangzhou, China, the host city for the 19th Asian Games and 4th Asian Para Games, today announced it is giving away 1 million gift packs with a rich variety of travel benefits through lotteries to welcome global visitors. Each gift pack includes a 7-day free Hangzhou subway pass, free tickets to tourist attractions, and a … Continued
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On May 27, nearly 300 youths from 48 countries and regions gathered in Huai'an, Jiangsu to participate in sports and cultural exchange activities such as 3X3 basketball match and foot orienteering activity. The organizer hopes to fully demonstrate the youthful vigor and demeanor of international young friends through this exchange week, and use sports as … Continued
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A delegation from Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, carried out a series of exchange events including the Wuxi (Tokyo) economic, trade(https://en.imsilkroad.com/trade/index.html) and cultural cooperation conference in Japan recently. Photo shows the Wuxi (Tokyo) economic, trade and cultural cooperation conference held in Tokyo, capital of Japan, on May 11, 2023. Zhao Jianjun, mayor of Wuxi, expressed … Continued
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In 2015, China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) established a strategic partnership of win-win cooperation, which provided a strategic direction for the further development of bilateral relations. By upgrading ties into a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership on Friday in Beijing, the two countries are eyeing mature, stable and groundbreaking China-DRC relations that … Continued