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The Jade Shakyamuni Buddha statue carved out of a 260-ton jade stone is being displayed here for worshippers from all over the world.
XI'AN: The country's first private flying club here has received more than 100 applications from aspiring professional pilots as well as the affluent, hoping to buy their own planes, the club's officials said yesterday.
Archaeologists from Peking University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Shandong Province investigated the site of a 3000-year-old Shang Dynasty salt workshop on December 11, 2008.
The grand canyon in southern Tibet Autonomous Region is becoming a popular new attraction since opening up to tourists in mid-July.
The first snow of this winter fell in Beijing on Wednesday.
They say music and song have no language barriers. But to keep them alive language is vital.
Beijing will begin yearly inspections of its cultural relics to better protect its history, the city's cultural heritage protection officials said on Tuesday.
Performers dance during a rehearsal of the opening ceremony in front of the Museum of Nationalities in Nanning, capital of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Dec. 5, 2008.
A photographer takes pictures of natural ice creations in front of the Hukou waterfall of the Yellow River, North China's Shanxi Province, December 7, 2008.
Chinese archaeologists have found the relics of an ancient Xinggong, imperial palace for short stays away from the capital, for Qin kings more than 2,000 years ago.
China's most populous city opened its first library for foreign residents on Saturday, offering publications in foreign languages and information on living in Shanghai.