Reincarnated from rubble

The screen overlooking New York's Times Square - the "crossroads of the world" - today shows a dreamlike Chinese landscape.

The video shows the vicissitudes of Tai'erzhuang, a town in Zaozhuang, Shandong province, nurtured by the Grand Canal, ruined during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) and later rebuilt.

Zaozhuang's Party chief Chen Wei says two of the phrases shown on the screen resonate with him: "Destroyed but never lost" and "Feel the Chinese dream".