In 1605, Scottish soldier and composer Captain Tobias Hume published a musical setting of an anonymous poem celebrating one of the wonders brought to Europe from the colonies of the New World.
Item from Sept 21, 1987, in China Daily: More than 30 people with various disabilities visited the Great Wall yesterday.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China, which attaches great importance to sustainable development, has included "ecological construction" in its national development strategy.
China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, the first of its kind in the country, has been working as a driving force of deepened reform and opening-up, with the number of innovative ideas and policies duplicated and promoted worldwide as President Xi Jinping called for in 2014.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang called for full implementation of the United Nations resolutions regarding Pyongyang, and urged parties involved to ease tensions in the Korean Peninsula.
President Xi Jinping has called for more systematic and innovative social governance, stressing the need to improve the capability to predict and prevent security risks.
China and Russia agreed that tensions on the Korean Peninsula must be solved peacefully and the "vicious cycle" must end, when their foreign ministers met on Monday in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Chinese enterprises are welcome to participate in the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said when he met with Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday.
China is working with Ukraine on an industrial park to build aircraft engines, a joint venture expected to extensively boost China's research, development and production capabilities in that area, according to project insiders.
Shenzhen's Yumin village, facing Hong Kong to the south, was once known as a typical urban village in the Pearl River Delta, surrounded by high-rise buildings but characterized by dense and disorderly living conditions as well.
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