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Tibetan Buddhist believers make New Year wishes
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
An elderly Buddhist believer holds a prayer wheel during the replacement ceremony of prayer streamers around the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, Jan. 26, 2010. Lots of Buddhist believers write down their New Year wishes on prayer streamers and tie them up to the five Buddhist [...]
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Second medical team lands in Haiti
Members of the Chinese medical care and epidemic prevention team pose for a group photo at an airport in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, on Jan. 25, 2010. The 40-member Chinese medical care and epidemic prevention team arrived in Haiti on Monday by a chartered flight, which also carried 20 tonnes of medical supplies. Four [...]
Beijing Travel Guide
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Chinese Ethnic Culture Park
Ticket:RMB90; Address: 1, Minzuyuan Road, Chaoyang District
As a State AAAA Tourist Area, the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park is located inside the Olympic Green, at Minzuyuan Road, Chaoyang District. Also known as the China Nationalities Museum, it is a large-scale humanities tourist attraction in the category of Anthropology Museum, which integrates the recovery, collection, exhibition, research [...] -
China Millennium Monument
Address: No. 9 A, Fuxing Road, Haidian District Subway line 1 or bus 1, 4, 21, 57, 320
Tickets: RMB30 for ordinary visitors, RMB15 for students, RMB25 for group visitors
Open hours: 8:00-18:00 Monday through Thursday and 8:00-21:00 Friday through Sunday in summer; 8:30-17:30 Monday to Sunday in winter.
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China Red Sandalwood Museum
Telephone: 8610-85752818; Ticket: RMB 50; Address: No. 23, Jianguo Road, Chaoyang Disrtict
Route: 300m east of Sihui Station of Subway Line 1; north of Gaobeidian Subway Station; north Gaobeidian of Jing-Cheng Expressway.
The museum has five floors, where more than 1,000 items of royal carpentry fine arts have been collected. Also collected are rare [...] - More from Beijing Travel Guide
Shanghai Travel Guide
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Shanghai Museum
As a museum of ancient Chinese art, Shanghai Museum possesses a collection of 120,000 precious works of art. Its rich and high-quality collection of ancient Chinese bronze, ceramics, painting and calligraphy is specially celebrated in the world. Founded and first open to the public in the building previously of the horseracing club at 325 W. [...]
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Shanghai Introduction
Shanghai
Municipality with provincial status (pop., 1999 est.: city, 8,937,175; 2000 est.: municipality, 16,740,000), east-central China.
The municipality, on the East China Sea, is bordered by Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and has an area of 2,400 sq mi (6,200 sq km). The city is located on the Huangpu River, which gives oceangoing vessels access to it. Shanghai [...] - More from Shanghai Travel Guide
Hong Kong Travel Guide
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta on the southeastern coast of China, facing the South China Sea in the south, and bordering Guangdong Province in the north. Hong Kong is China’s richest region, has one of the world’s most liberal economies and is a major international centre of finance [...]
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Taiwan Travel Guide
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Taiwan
Taiwan lies like a spindle in the southeast of Asia. It is a rare tropical mountain-island in the world, two thirds of which is covered with high mountain ranges. The most famous of the mountains, Ali Mountain, is the symbol of charming Taiwan.
Located in the subtropical ocean, Taiwan offers tourists comfortable weather and has no [...] - More from Taiwan Travel Guide
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About Macau
Fishermen from Fujian and farmers from Guangdong were the first known settlers in Macau, when it was known as Ou Mun, or “trading gate”, because of its location at the mouth of the Pearl River downstream from Guangzhou (Canton). During ancient times port city was part of the Silk Road with [...]
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Shanxi Introduction
Shanxi Province is located in the middle Yellow River. The Taihang Mountains in the Loess Plateau in the east, west Wushaoling the east shall be guilty of Shanxi Province. In most parts of the province covered by loess, loess 30-100 m thick. Loess Plateau central, east and west sides are [...]
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Brief Introduction to Shaanxi
[Position and area] Shaanxi Province (for short “Shaan” or “Qin”) is in the hinterland of China. It is situated between east longitude 105°29’ to 111°15’ and north latitude 31°42’ to 39°35’. Shaanxi Province is located in an important position that connects East China and Central China as well as Northwest and [...]
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Brief Introduction to Zhejiang
This article is about Zhejiang province of the People’s Republic of China. For the former Chekiang province of the Republic of China, see Chekiang Province, Republic of China.
Zhejiang (Chinese: 浙江; pinyin: Zhèjiāng; Wade-Giles: Che-chiang) is an eastern coastal province of the People’s Republic of China. The word Zhejiang (crooked river) was the old [...]
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Brief Introduction to Jiangsu
Ⅰ Geographic Position and Natural Environment
Position
Su is short for Jiangsu, a province located along the eastern coast of China between east longitude 116°18′and 121°57′, north latitude 30°45′and 35°20′. With Yellow Sea to its east, Jiangsu adjoins Anhui and Shandong provinces in the west and north respectively, with Zhejiang province and [...] - Archives:
