The Beijing Music Festival will initiate a three-year opera co-production program starting in 2020 with the prestigious French dramatic and musical institution Opera Comique, according to a joint announcement.
As China revs up its preparation for the 2022 Winter Olympics, foreign companies are spotting a niche in the country's increasingly popular ice and snow sports market.
Editor's Note: The Country Exhibition covers an area of around 30,000 square meters in this year's CIIE.
As a rising platform for economies and companies to showcase their latest innovations and developments, the China International Import Expo has seen a growing number of new high-tech products making their debut in the country, and even globally.
As a part of the efforts to organize an even better event, the second China International Import Expo is adding a new exhibition category featuring the country's time-honored brands and examples of intangible cultural heritage.
During a general assembly of China's top scientists and engineers last year, President Xi Jinping said "historic, holistic and structural" changes had taken place in the science and technology sector in recent years.
Fourteen years ago, President Xi Jinping coined the phrase "clear waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" during a visit to Anji, when he was Party secretary of Zhejiang province.
In 1949 when the People's Republic of China was founded, the number of people living in urban areas accounted for only about 10 percent of the total population. Today, following years of unprecedented growth, China's urban population has surpassed 831 million, accounting for nearly 60 percent of the total population, according to the national statistics bureau.
The founders of China's space program could not have imagined one day sending a spacecraft to Mars when, back in the 1950s and '60s, they struggled with great difficulty to establish the country's space industry.
It is no secret that scientists and explorers believe the deep oceans are Earth's final frontier. While nearly all the land on Earth has been mapped by modern gadgets, more than 80 percent of the oceans remained unexplored as of last year, according to the National Ocean Service in the United States.
That's because the southernmost continent was, for many years, as distant as Mars to Chinese scientists, let alone ordinary travelers. China was the last of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to establish an Antarctic station and was embarrassed at an international Antarctic research meeting before Changcheng Station came into being.
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