A year ago, cars and bicycles were parked messily in the alley under numerous cable wires hanging in the air along Qinglong Hutong, but now everything is in order.
It's the Autumn Equinox and a bright full moon hangs in the sky. Jazz instrumentalists serenade her with colorful riffs and rhythmic sounds, which reverberate through the air filled with the scent of fresh grass as women in vintage dresses practice swing dance moves with their male partners. That was the scene at a Shanghai campsite on Sept 23, which sought to reproduce the atmosphere of the Paramount Hall in the 1930s - when the American Jazz movement finally reached China and the music was frequently performed by bands in city nightclubs.
In the hit musical La La Land, the main character Sebastian Wilder is a jazz freak who is eager to revive his beloved music genre by opening a jazz club in Los Angeles.
BEIJING - More than 100,000 volunteers in 132 cities spent a weekend picking up plastic and other waste across the country, in a joint worldwide effort to clean up the planet.
Last October, Shanghai released its action plan to serve as a pioneer in the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative. The next month, Fudan University set up the Institute of Belt and Road and Global Governance.
BRASILIA - A group of Brazilian students have recently started postgraduate studies at the Beihang University, previously known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as part of the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite cooperation program, which turns 30 this year.
UNITED NATIONS - The director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, Jorge Chediek, last month commended the leadership of the China Agricultural University for launching two major platforms for exchanges in agriculture and rural development.
TIANJIN - Airbus has just launched its 2018 Fly Your Ideas global competition for the China region, encouraging young Chinese innovators to come up with unique ideas and solutions for the aerospace industry.
Meng Boshen's current one-man show at Beijing's Today Art Museum, which runs through Wednesday, features only two site-specific installations whose materials are entirely natural: One is a tree suspended in midair and the other is a pile of stones spread over the ground.
Qidan, also known as Khitan, was a nomadic ethnic tribe that established the Liao Dynasty (916-1125) and dominated the vast area of former Manchuria, Mongolia and parts of northern China for over 200 years.
From a glazed-tile factory to a popular getaway, Brickyard Retreat is hot on the tourist map for its rural charm and Great Wall experience.
More than 200 programs in over 50 cities across the country are expected to sweep visitors off their feet during an upcoming cultural-tourism festival.
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