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Sweating it out for sports design crown

The Second Jordan Cup China Sports Wear Design Contest kicked off recently in Beijing. Launched by the China Fashion Association and Jordan China, it is now soliciting designs from all over China. The final competition will be held in November during the China Fashion Week Spring/Summer.

The applicants can choose to design clothes or shoes. Each collection requires three to five garments or shoes. The golden award winner's prize is 20,000 yuan ($2,628).

Aiming to promote the level of sport wear design in China, Jordan China started the contest last year.

Sampling slices of folk fare

China Radio International (CRI) and The Intangible Culture Heritage Protection Center of China have jointly launched a folk music collecting tour to South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

During the trip, CRI will interview folk musicians and record their performances. These will be produced into a serial of programs broadcast on CRI and Guangxi People's Radio. At the end of this year, CRI will hold a concert in Beijing showcasing the music.

CRI plans to launch the music collecting tour in 10 regions over five years. They chose Guangxi as the first stop because there are dozens of ethnic groups in the region, each with rich musical traditions.

TV series fair seeks cooperation

Chinese TV series producers and broadcasters gathered at the country's first TV series promotion fair in Beijing to discuss the declining quality of home-made shows.

A total of 13,840 episodes were produced in China last year, "only 3,000 episodes or so were shown at prime time of TV stations, and the demand of Chinese TV stations is no more than 7,000," said You Xiaogang, a famous TV series director in China.

That means more than 6,000 episodes remain unshown, said You, head of the the Capital TV Program-Making Association (CTPMA), which co-sponsored the fair with the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio and Television. To lift the standard of China's TV series production, the CTPMA is trying to bring producers and broadcasters together to collect ideas.

Letting it all hang out at a bikini bash

A bikini party was launched last Wednesday at Old Stone-man Beach in Qingdao, Shandong Province, to mark the one-year count down of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Actresses Fan Bingbing, Yan Danchen, Hao Lei and actor Tong Dawei were among the stars in attendance.

Guests enjoyed the sunshine, beautiful beach scene, delicious French, American, Spanish and Australian cuisine and music from famous local DJs. In a special photo shoots, the official photographers of the magazine Trends Health took photos for the ladies and made them look like cover girls. Trends Health launches a large-scale outdoor event every year.

Mom's the word at women's magazine

The Chinese edition of women's magazine Good House Keeping has launched 2007 Real Women campaign to look for models who are not only beautiful but also independent, tough and capable.

Mother's Class is one of the programs of the campaign, which will discuss how to raise children. The first Mother's Class was held Saturday afternoon at Beijing's A-z Kids. There, the film actress Jia Ni shared her experiences of bringing-up her 5-year-old daughter.

China Daily-Xinhua

(China Daily 08/24/2007 page18)