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WHEN TRADITIONS OFFER LIVELIHOOD

[2018-10-17 07:28]

Dorlma, a Tibetan woman who learned weaving from her family as a teenager, is now helping her family even more, thanks to a United Nations-funded training project on producing Tibetan carpets run by Yunnan Agricultural University.

NPU turns 80, more foreign students join

[2018-10-17 07:28]

In recent years, Northwestern Polytechnical University has given priority to international cooperation in education and many foreign students have come to NPU for further studies.

Cosmetics company's program boosts recruitment

[2018-10-17 07:28]

During the National Day holiday week when most of Gao Lingjie's classmates engaged themselves in uploading CVs on job-seeking platforms or preparing to traipse around campus recruitment fairs for a satisfactory job offer, the 23-year-old could lean back and chill-out as she had already settled the matter of future prospects.

DRAWING ON A WIDER CANVAS

[2018-10-16 08:05]

In 1944, an overturned boat near Chongqing brought a premature end to the ambition of Tang Yihe, an artist and educator. He was on board, traveling to attend a conference of the China national fine arts council, before falling victim to the Yangtze River at the age of 39. He had directed the oil painting department of the Wuchang Fine Art School where he graduated, and he would have been elected a standing member of the council at the meeting.

DISCOVERING RWANDA'S REWARDS

[2018-10-16 08:05]

A mountain gorilla beats its chest in the pounding rain. Another member of its troop sits silently in a bamboo thicket.

Kenya to tap Africa to grow tourism

[2018-10-16 08:05]

NAIROBI - Kenya's tourism marketers have laid out plans to regard Africa as a key regional market to grow its tourism business, a senior official says.

REMEMBERING THE CHANGES THROUGH MUSIC

[2018-10-16 08:05]

At the ongoing Beijing Music Festival - an annual event featuring world-class musicians and concerts, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra led by conductor Tan Lihua gave a performance called Embracing the New Era: Chinese Music Concert, to mark the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up, at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in the capital.

Architect's 'suitcase house' aimed at young people

[2018-10-16 08:05]

When humans are forced to settle down on Mars, might we at last start to think about the way we live on Earth? With this question in mind, architect Li Hu has designed a suitcase-like house to explore how people could have minimalistic lifestyle that only meets the essential requirements for survival.

43 composers to present classical works at upcoming festival

[2018-10-16 08:05]

Composer Ye Xiaogang says 1978 was a special year.

Celebrating a memorable song

[2018-10-15 07:41]

In 1980, Chinese singer Li Guyi performed a song, entitled Homeland Love, a mellow love ballad written by Ma Jinghua and Zhang Peiji, which made the then 36-year-old singer of the Central Symphony Orchestra - now known as China National Symphony Orchestra - into a household name in China.

Music label marks 120th milestone in imperial style

[2018-10-15 07:41]

Audiences might still remember the impressive opera production of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot - conducted under the baton of Zubin Mehta and directed by Zhang Yimou - that was performed at Beijing's historical Imperial Ancestral Temple, which is located just outside the Forbidden City, in September 1998.

The nuts & bolts of memory

[2018-10-13 07:27]

As grand structures go, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge has an unenviable job competing for public attention, and perhaps even affection, with the likes of the Great Wall of China and the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai.

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