Chinese director Jia Zhangke has revealed that his latest film Mountains may depart is to be submitted for this year's foreign-language category at the Academy Awards. The movie tells the story of a family that moves from China to ...
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Travel agencies and self-driving clubs from home and abroad will come to Luoyang to explore tourist routes and experience tourist attractions on September 18. Around 200 Chinese and foreign travel agencies and 400 self-driving clubs ...
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Pingyao in Shanxi Province, was China's financial capital back in the Qing Dynasty. But when modern banks stormed the scene, Pingyao fell out of favor and got left in the proverbial coal dust. Virtually forgotten by the masses for about a ...
The 15th China Pingyao International Photography Festival opened Saturday with the theme of "Home and Dream" in the ancient city of Pingyao, North China's Shanxi province, Sept 19, 2015. The festival featured 483 exhibitions, showcasing ...
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Photo taken on Sept 20 shows how LED light passes through a carved egg at an egg-caving show by artist Kong Bin in Linfen, North China's Shanxi province. Artist Kong Bin carves an egg in Linfen, North China's Shanxi province, Sept 20, ...
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Craftsmen Li Shuanglu (left) and Wu Laishun (right) try to beat a piece of steel bar flat with a hammer in making crewel needles in Dayang township of Zezhou county, North China's Shanxi province, Sept 24, 2015. Pei Xiangnan, 66, is the ...
The 25th National Book Expo came to a close Sunday in Taiyuan, capital of West China's Shanxi province. During the three-day Expo, 250,000 books were on display to the public, and almost 200 reading activities were held. Details of the ...
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Dayang Ancient Town, which has a history of more than 2,000 years, was well-known for its needle-making industry during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911). With the decline of handmade needle industry, the prosperity of the ancient ...
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The 25th National Book Expo was held from Sep 25 to 27 in Taiyuan, Shanxi province by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and the provincial government, aiming to promote nationwide reading and build a ...
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Actor He Shan is a big fan of Woody Allen. He has what one can call a small collection of his movies, music and theater works. In 2013, He read a book, which had Chinese translations of three of Allen's one-act plays, Riverside Driver, Old ...
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For the past few decades, actress Liu Xiaoqing has managed to stay in the media spotlight, owing to her longevity as one of China's most popular actresses, still playing roles much younger than her own age. And being a top-selling ...
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The Great Wall is vanishing, with less than 10% of the total stretch of more than 20,000 kilometers remaining in good condition, according to a report unveiled by China Youth News on Oct 9. Badly damaged The current concept of the Great ...
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People queued in front of a bank to obtain new commemorative coins in Beijing, Oct 12, 2015. A set of commemorative coins has been issued by People's Bank of China to mark the 70th anniversary of victory in the Chinese people's War of ...
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Father Francis Li Jianlin has been looking for investment opportunities and health insurance in his spare time, spurred on by a feeling of responsibility for the priests and nuns in his Catholic diocese in Xinxiang, Henan province. ...
China Pavilion 2015, hosted by the Ministry of Commerce opened in Cologne, Germany on August 5. Counselor Zhu Weige of China’s Economic and Commercial Counsellor’s Office in Frankfurt attended the opening ceremony, and also ...
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