In 2001, when composer Yin Qing read the news about the start of the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, he was very excited and wanted to do a song on the subject.
BUCHAREST - Applause and loud cheering greeted the finale of a third encore as the audience in Bucharest's Athenaeum Hall showed their appreciation for the April 23 performance by the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra.
This past May Day holiday, I found myself hurtling through the undergrowth in bamboo-blanketed Anji county, Zhejiang province, triple-checking my seat belt as our bus sped along increasingly narrower dirt roads.
Jinzhou has launched six travel routes with such themes as culture, coastline and education.
When Ye Liqin visited the village of Pingtian for the first time four years ago, the welcoming committee that greeted her was decidedly hostile - a group of barking dogs.
Over the past four years Xu Tiantian has traveled between Beijing and Songyang in Zhejiang province numerous times. In fact she has become so attached to the city that she says she regards it as her child.
Jonathan Haskel says the rise in property values in China's cities is more down to the rise of the intangible economy than the attraction of tangible assets such as apartments and houses.
In 1936, a 31-year-old American writer ventured into a "no-go" zone in a remote part of Northwest China's Loess Plateau with many questions in his mind.
In chapter 35 of The Dream of the Red Chamber, when protagonist Jia Baoyu is asked what he would like to eat after being beaten by his father, he asks for lotus leaf soup.
One legend says that the process of sealing tea and letting it age began after Emperor Qianlong (1711-99) visited Hangzhou in Zhejiang province.
MADRID - Spanish gastronomy is vital to help boost Spain's profile in China, says Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros, the high commissioner for Marca Espana, a Spanish government institution set up to promote Spain's image abroad.
"When my father decided to teach me the art of paper-cutting, he asked me not to have romantic relationships before I was 40 years old."
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