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Fashion: Li-Ning makes comeback in couture
Last month, a model wore red and yellow, a signature color combination in China, during the Li-Ning couture event at the 2019 Spring/Summer Paris Fashion Week. Dazzled with street-style sportswear, the show revealed the ambition and pride of the brand. In fact, the once leading sportswear producer in China almost closed after 2010. However, Li Ning, the founder of the brand, breathed new life into the brand with a series of new ideas and changes in 2015.
Culture: Wang Yueyi reads poetry for you
In the second episode of Poetry Moment, Wang Yueyi, a young actress and fashion model, reads a poem by Robert Herrick: To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time. She also talks about how to study efficiently, and gives high school students some advice for taking the national college entrance exam, or gaokao. Poetry Moment is an original short video series produced by the China Daily website. It is broadcast every Tuesday. Stay tuned.
Food: Get a taste of signature Russian dishes
Two weeks after the opening of this year's World Cup, soccer remains one of the most talked-about topics in China. Russia qualified in the last 16, which has caught the public's attention, while the World Cup has made the country a hot destination for global travelers. Russian cuisine is underrepresented in the guidebooks. In fact, Russian kitchens boast a diverse range of delicious food as wide as its territory, going well beyond caviar and borscht. Visit our website to have a look at some signature Russian dishes.
People: Cleaning tall buildings a challenge
Chen Maoqing's work is to clean the facade of tall buildings in Nanchang, Jiangxi province. The job is strenuous, especially during scorching summers. "When we clean the facade of a building, we are often 100 meters above the ground with the sun directly overhead," said Chen, who has been doing the job for more than 10 years. "The facade and glass of a building are scorching hot in the sun, with the surface temperatures as high as 40 C." It takes three hours to clean a facade from top to bottom once, and the cleaners do it three times a day.
Animals: Crested ibis numbers rise in China
Twenty-three crested ibises have hatched since February in along the Juhe River in Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, their primary habitat. Until the discovery of seven of the birds in May 1981, in Yangxian, Shaanxi, the birds were thought to be extinct in the wild. At one time, they were common on the Korean Peninsula and in Japan, China and Russia. Currently, about 2,500 crested ibises live in Shaanxi. Their habitat covers around 14,000 square kilometers.
(China Daily 07/02/2018 page22)
