The Cool758 Razor is sold in China. It is a mobile phone with a 2 Mega pixels camera integrated, with the integration of 2 SIM cards and....
... an electrical shaver to shave anywhere and anywhen!
You can buy this set here.
The Cool758 Razor is sold in China. It is a mobile phone with a 2 Mega pixels camera integrated, with the integration of 2 SIM cards and.... ... an electrical shaver to shave anywhere and anywhen! You can buy this set here.
Watch how Yu ZhenHuan, a 26-year old man have to fight against other people's looks in a country that do not really accept sometimes difference.
Discover the article inside The Economist this week: how US saw the world in 1999 (remind you an article in the Economist in 1999), and how China sees the world 10 years later.
The exhibition show is named "The Archeological Discovery in AD 3009" and it is exposed at the Today Art Museum in Beijing. For more information, click here.
Beginning of this month, we were talking about how China made its own weather in the region of Beijing. Click here to read this article. Watch this documentary to see how exactly Chinese people use the rockets in an attempt to ease drought conditions in the Beijing area.
Discover or to prepare quickly Snake or Fish still alived in your dish... Enjoy !
This documentary is on the Financial Times website. It is composed by three documentary films regarding the petitioning system in China. Petioners across the country gather once a year in Beijing to try to be listened from the Chinese Government.
Please click here to see it.
This tortle was found in a Chinese market in Qingdao (Shandong Province).
Using rockets to fire 313 silver iodide into the clouds, China is making it snow in an attempt to ease drought conditions in the Beijing area.
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China's cloud-seeding yields Beijing's first snow, after its longest drought in 38 years. No rain has been recorded since 24th of October 2008. Other Chinese provinces such as Gansu, facing a threatening reduction of wheat production, have also been in a race to produce more rain and snow.
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After “enhancing” snow, China has closed 12 highways and all outbound highways were closed in Hebei. “The snow has brought moisture to the soil, which may help end the drought,” Guo Yingchun, a senior engineer of the provincial meteorological observatory, was quoted as saying.
The Ming and Qing imperial tombs are distributed in Beijing, and in Hebei, Liaoning, Anhui, Jiangsu and Hubei provinces. As some of the most important constructions of the nation at that time, they were often built under the personal inspection of the emperors themselves, and always designed with the closest attention and highest skills. Most of the mausoleums are still well preserved.
A showcase of the highest level of architectural and design concepts in Ming and Qing China (1368-1911); a dazzling illustration of the beliefs, world view, moral values and ideas about life and death of Chinese feudal society for thousands of years.
Every year at the Ming Tombs there were three large sacrificial ceremonies and four small ones. Sometimes officials hosted the ceremonies, and sometimes the emperor himself. Temporary palaces were built in the vicinity for these emperors.
The 13 Ming and Qing imperial tombs in Beijing are basically similar in appearance. Cloistered in ancient cypress and pine groves, they were usually built in oblong shape, surrounded by red walls and covered with yellow tiles. The whole area is enclosed by a majestic wall built in accordance with the hilly topography, with the main entrance spanning two hills, named Dragon and Tiger. A large symbolic gateway, the largest one in ancient China, was erected at the entrance, with a height of 14 m and width of 29 m. Five gates and six columns leading to the tomb area are made of white marble, through which one is directed along a road lined with 18 pairs of stone figures (24 animal figures and 12 human ones), stele pavilions, gates and bridges. Among the 13 tombs, the Chang, Yong and Ding tombs are the grandest.
The Ming and Qing Tombs are outstanding examples of the principles of geomancy (Fengshui) in China, as well as of traditional architecture.
The funeral of an emperor was lengthy and solemn. The coffin was kept in the Palace until the day before the funeral, when the funeral vehicles and mourners were arranged in special dispositions outside the Wumen Gate of the Forbidden City. The crown prince, the deceased emperor's wives, the high-ranking officials and other relevant mourners attended a farewell ceremony in the mourning hall. After that, the coffin would be covered with a pall, and carried to the hearse. It was then accompanied by all the mourners to the Wumen Gate, where the crown prince alone was to halt and turn back. The coffin was carried through the Wumen Gate to the Duanmen Gate, out of the Deshengmen Gate and all the way to the Tianshoushan Tombs. Memorial altars were set up beforehand along this way, where hereditary nobles, officials, members of the imperial family, ministers, monks, Taoist priests and local squires saw the deceased emperor off and held sacrifices for him. The crown prince, meanwhile, held an ancestral worship sacrifice in the Tai Temple.
When the coffin arrived at the mausoleum, it would still have to wait for a calculated auspicious time to be moved into the Underground Palace. Only when all the burial objects were placed in the Underground Palace together with the coffin and the gate of the Underground Palace was closed was the whole funeral finished.
A showcase of the highest level of architectural and design concepts in Ming and Qing China (1368-1911); a dazzling illustration of the beliefs, world view, moral values and ideas about life and death of Chinese feudal society for thousands of years.
Every year at the Ming Tombs there were three large sacrificial ceremonies and four small ones. Sometimes officials hosted the ceremonies, and sometimes the emperor himself. Temporary palaces were built in the vicinity for these emperors.
The 13 Ming and Qing imperial tombs in Beijing are basically similar in appearance. Cloistered in ancient cypress and pine groves, they were usually built in oblong shape, surrounded by red walls and covered with yellow tiles. The whole area is enclosed by a majestic wall built in accordance with the hilly topography, with the main entrance spanning two hills, named Dragon and Tiger. A large symbolic gateway, the largest one in ancient China, was erected at the entrance, with a height of 14 m and width of 29 m. Five gates and six columns leading to the tomb area are made of white marble, through which one is directed along a road lined with 18 pairs of stone figures (24 animal figures and 12 human ones), stele pavilions, gates and bridges. Among the 13 tombs, the Chang, Yong and Ding tombs are the grandest.
The Ming and Qing Tombs are outstanding examples of the principles of geomancy (Fengshui) in China, as well as of traditional architecture.
The funeral of an emperor was lengthy and solemn. The coffin was kept in the Palace until the day before the funeral, when the funeral vehicles and mourners were arranged in special dispositions outside the Wumen Gate of the Forbidden City. The crown prince, the deceased emperor's wives, the high-ranking officials and other relevant mourners attended a farewell ceremony in the mourning hall. After that, the coffin would be covered with a pall, and carried to the hearse. It was then accompanied by all the mourners to the Wumen Gate, where the crown prince alone was to halt and turn back. The coffin was carried through the Wumen Gate to the Duanmen Gate, out of the Deshengmen Gate and all the way to the Tianshoushan Tombs. Memorial altars were set up beforehand along this way, where hereditary nobles, officials, members of the imperial family, ministers, monks, Taoist priests and local squires saw the deceased emperor off and held sacrifices for him. The crown prince, meanwhile, held an ancestral worship sacrifice in the Tai Temple.
When the coffin arrived at the mausoleum, it would still have to wait for a calculated auspicious time to be moved into the Underground Palace. Only when all the burial objects were placed in the Underground Palace together with the coffin and the gate of the Underground Palace was closed was the whole funeral finished.
An outstanding expression of the creative art of Chinese landscape garden design, incorporating the works of man and nature in a harmonious manner.The Summer Palace is located in the north-western part of Beijing. First built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860, and restored on its original foundation in 1886, it served four generations of the imperial family, and is now a popular resort of people from all walks of life.
The Chinese name for the Summer Palace is Yiheyuan, "The Garden of Harmonious Unity". The palace is an outstanding example of imperial parks and private gardens with features of both northern and southern China, and is the best preserved and largest of the Chinese imperial parks. As a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design, it integrates the natural landscape of hills and open water with manmade features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges into a harmonious and aesthetically exceptional whole.
The Summer Palace covers an area of 290 ha, 3/4 of it being water. The present design gives prominence to Longevity Hill (Wanshoushan) and Kunming Lake. The garden is divided into three sectors: the official sector, the private sector and the landscape sector.
The official sector, or imperial palaces are in the eastern part of the Summer Palace. The main structures in this area include the Hall of Benevolence and Longevity (Renshoudian), also known as the Hall of Industrious Government (Qinzhengdian), its side halls and offices of ministers. The private sector is composed of three large courtyards, focusing respectively on the Hall of Jade Ripples (Yulantang), the Hall of Happiness and Longevity (Leshoutang) and the Yiba Hall. The landscape sector, the major part of the park, consists of Longevity Hill, Kunming Lake and a great variety of wooden, stone, glaze and brass structures.
The Summer Palace is famous both for its general design and its individual structures. For instance, the Long Corridor (Changlang) is one of the longest of its kind in Chinese history; the Palace Theatre (Daxilou) is one of the three largest palace theaters in China (the other two are in the Forbidden City and Chengde Mountain Resort, respectively); the Marble Boat is often used as a poetic symbol of ancient China. There is also a large screen decorated with a nine-dragon design symbolizing imperial power and with the Chinese character for "longevity" in 226 types of calligraphy in the middle of the Hall of Benevolence and Longevity.
One of the most interesting place in Beijing remains the Temple of Heaven. The largest existing complex of ancient sacrificial buildings in China; masterpiece of China's royal sacrificial buildings complex and one of the best symbolic illustrations of Chinese cosmology.Located in the southern part of Beijing, the Temple of Heaven (Tiantan) has been one of the most sacred places for the whole country for more than five centuries.
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It served as a complex of sacrificial buildings for the Ming and Qing emperors, and is the largest one in Beijing among several royal altars to Heaven, Earth, the Sun, the Moon and other deities or symbolic forces of Nature.
The Temple of Heaven was built in 1420 during the reign of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), originally as an altar for the worship of both Heaven and Earth. It began to serve as the exclusive imperial altar for Heaven and the Harvest since the worship of Heaven and Earth was divided in 1530, and a new Altar of Earth was built in the northern part of the capital.
In the overall layout and individual designs of its buildings, the Temple of Heaven symbolizes the relationship between Earth and Heaven which stands at the heart of Chinese cosmogony, and also the special role played by the emperors within that relationship.
Surrounded by an outer wall of 5 km, it covers an area of 273 ha, thrice the size of the Forbidden City. It is divided into the Inner Temple (Neitan) and the Outer Temple (Waitan) by a double wall.
Surrounded by an outer wall of 5 km, it covers an area of 273 ha, thrice the size of the Forbidden City. It is divided into the Inner Temple (Neitan) and the Outer Temple (Waitan) by a double wall.
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The main buildings of the Inner Temple are on a north-south axis, including the Circular Mound Altar (Huanqiutan) in the south and the Altar of Prayer for Good Harvests (Qigutan) in the north. The two altars are connected by a brick and stone walkway named Shendao (Sacred Road), an allusion to the long road to the imperial court. The Outer Temple consists mainly of age-old pinewoods, cypresses and the Department of Sacred Music (Shenyueshu), of which only half remains.
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Sacrifices to Heaven were arranged in winter every year. On the 15th day of the first lunar month, on the winter solstice (22nd solar term), and some time during the first month of summer, the emperor would go to the Temple of Heaven to worship Heaven, to pray for good harvests and rainfall, and to offer sacrifices to the ancestors, to the gods of the sun, the moon and the stars, and to the gods of the clouds, wind, rain, and thunder and lightning.
When I went for business several times in Kaiping located in Guangdong Province (China), I never realized that actually I was in a UNISCO's world Heritage place. Kaiping Diaolou and Villages, the unique residential and defensive buildings in Guangdong's Kaiping, were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
Kaiping Diaolou and Villages feature the Diaolou, multi-storied defensive village houses in Kaiping which display a complex fusion of Chinese and Western structural and decorative forms. They reflect the significant role of émigré Kaiping people in the development of several countries in South Asia, Australasia, and North America, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the close links between overseas Kaiping and their ancestral homes.
The property inscribed consists of four groups of Diaolou, totaling some 1,800 tower houses in their village settings. They reflect the culmination of almost five centuries of tower-house building and the still strong links between Kaiping and the Chinese diaspora.
These buildings take three forms: communal towers built by several families and used as temporary refuge, of which 473 remain; residential towers built by individual rich families and used as fortified residences, of which 1,149 survive; and watch towers, the latest development, which account for 221 of the buildings. Built of stone, compressed earth, brick or concrete, these buildings represent a complex and confident fusion between Chinese and Western architectural styles. Retaining a harmonious relationship with the surrounding agricultural landscape, the Diaolou testify to the final flowering of local building traditions that started in the Ming period (1368-1644) in response to local banditry.
A 3 kg and 98 centimeters long rat was captured by one residant from Fuzhou city in China. Mr Xian, who caught the rat, was disturbed by some noise. What a surprise!
This rat is maybe from the « Cannomys badius » specy or called « banboo rat » in China.
This book presents a story of two Chinas – an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand, and the result was rapid as well as broad-based growth. In the 1990s, urban China triumphed. In the 1990s, the Chinese state reversed many of its productive rural experiments, with long-lasting damage to the economy and society. A weak financial sector, income disparity, rising illiteracy, productivity slowdowns, and reduced personal income growth are the product of the capitalism with Chinese characteristics of the 1990s and beyond. While GDP grew quickly in both decades, the welfare implications of growth differed substantially. The book uses the emerging Indian miracle to debunk the widespread notion that democracy is automatically anti-growth. The single biggest obstacle to sustainable growth and financial stability in China today is its poor political governance. As the country marks its 30th anniversary of reforms in 2008, China faces some of its toughest economic challenges and substantial vulnerabilities that require fundamental institutional reforms.
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Click here if you want to read the first pages.
As I have been travelling for business in Eastern China (Shanghai region), I wanted to talk about Suzhou and its gardens. Suzhou is located at the west of Shanghai at around 1 hour by train. .
Suzhou's traditional gardens are noted for their exquisite design and layout. Landscape and buildings are perfectly integrated, to create a great harmony between man and nature.
Several of the gardens have been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, including Zhuozhen Garden (Humble Administrator's Garden), Wangshi Garden (Master-of-Nets Garden), Liuyuan Garden (Lingering Garden), Huanxiu Villa (Villa with Embraced Beauty), Canglangting Garden (Surging Waves Pavilion), Shizilin Garden (Lion Forest Garden), Ouyuan Garden (Double Courtyard), Yipu Garden (Art Garden) and Tuisi Garden (Retreat and Reflection Garden). These gardens demonstrate the typical features of Suzhou's classical gardens in layout, structure, design, style, use of color, decoration and furniture.
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Suzhou's classical gardens occupy a unique and irreplaceable position in the history of world landscape gardening, and have high value for the study of Chinese landscape gardening, architecture, culture, aesthetics, philosophy and folklore.
Moreover, as one of China's major schools of miniature trees, Suzhou-style bonsai is famous for its long history, unique design and distinctive style. Thanks to favorable natural conditions, skilled artisans have long since created bonsai masterpieces to record natural scenery in tiny pots. In addition, the rich culture of the city adds special flavor and a unique style to Suzhou-style bonsai. Suzhou bonsai is noted for its plainness and elegance. Old twigs aged 40, 60 or even 100 years are planted in a small plate and presented in different shapes -- drooping, prostrate, looking up or bending down.
China's capital will spend 1 billion yuan (about US$147 million) to build new tourist attractions over the next two years, Deng Minshan, chief of the economic and trade section of the municipal development and reform commission, said..
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Existing tourist zones, including those based on traditional culture, modern entertainment and nature, will be upgraded.
Tourism generates 7 percent of the city's gross domestic product. From 2001 to 2007, overseas tourist arrivals rose a cumulative 52 percent. Beijing hosted 4.36 million overseas tourists last year, from whom it took in US$4.58 billion.
During that period, the city saw gains of 30 percent and 98 percent in domestic tourist arrivals and related revenue, respectively. It hosted 143 million domestic tourists and netted 175.4 billion yuan last year.
Tourism generates 7 percent of the city's gross domestic product. From 2001 to 2007, overseas tourist arrivals rose a cumulative 52 percent. Beijing hosted 4.36 million overseas tourists last year, from whom it took in US$4.58 billion.
During that period, the city saw gains of 30 percent and 98 percent in domestic tourist arrivals and related revenue, respectively. It hosted 143 million domestic tourists and netted 175.4 billion yuan last year.
The city hopes for 400 billion yuan in total tourism revenue in 2012, which would be almost double its revenue for 2007. Beijing also aims for average growth of 7 percent for overseas tourism and 5 percent for domestic tourism in the next four years.By 2012, overseas tourist arrivals could total 6.1 million, and they are projected to spend US$7.5 billion. Domestic tourist arrivals will amount to 183 million, generating 350 billion yuan.
On Wednesday, 2009 July 22, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth.The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China.
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After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean.
This eclipse will be the longest eclipse of the 21st Century being 6 minutes 39 seconds at the point of maximum eclipse. For this events, many Tours will organize trips in China for this world event. You may want to register from now to one of this Tour organized by most European, American, or Asian coutries. Check carefully, because most of price are expensive and different according to the Tour you choose.
A massive collection of folk arts and craftsmanship has come alive in Beijing in a huge exhibition of China's intangible heritage. The practitioners of various arts are in the Chinese capital to demonstrate the techniques of creating their art.This is the first time for Macao's religious Figure Carving to be demonstrated in Beijing. The woodwork technique was added to the national intangible cultural heritage list in June last year.
Being the largest of its kind in the country, the exhibition gathers examples of China's most exquisite traditional techniques and artworks. The show involved activities such as paper-cut, printing, pottery, carving and embroidery.
The exhibition includes 133 items of folk arts and crafts on the state- and province-level intangible heritage lists. Fourteen state-level masters and 130 representative heirs to those arts and crafts, including those from different ethnic minorities were invited to give live performances.
China initiated the Intangible Cultural Heritage protection project in 2005. The list has been updated twice and now includes more than a thousand items.Organizers say the event is intended to showcase the progress in protecting intangible cultural items.
One of the highlights is traditional Chinese herbal medicine. Organizers have set up a special section to showcase the ancient Chinese medicine god-- Shennong, as well as the ancient drug jars, prescriptions and seals from old drugstores.
The exhibition opened at Beijing's Agricultural Exhibition Hall on Monday as China celebrated the Lantern Festival. Admission to the intangible cultural heritage exhibition is free. It will run at the National Agricultural Exhibition Hall until February 23rd.
This traditionnal dragon is made of 3600 stepladders forming a 5.5-km dragon. It tooks the energy and work of 5000 village people of Huayuan in Zhejiang province to establish this world record.
The "Sai Da Zhu" is the competition for the biggest pig. This competition is organized every year in the Province of Guangdong.
Well-decorated pigs are laid in rows to compete for this year's "big pig competition", a folk tradition, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, in Shantou, Guangdong province. The pig with the heaviest weight and most beautiful decorations will be declared the winner. After that, the meat will be shared among relatives and friends. The tradition, dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), was originally held by villagers who sacrificed their pigs to pray for good luck and dispel epidemics.
The movie about China's Schindler tells story of unlikely German Hero. John Rabe was a member of the Nazi party and the German electronics giant Siemens' man in China during the build-up to WWII. But he also helped save about 250,000 Chinese from the clutches of Japan's military machine.Please watch the Video about the movie.
This kind of story is very sensitive between China and Japan, when we know Japanese killed millions of Chinese during WWII.
The Kuomintang fought in 22 major engagements, most of which involved more than 100,000 troops on both sides, 1,171 minor engagements most of which involved more than 50,000 troops on both sides, and 38,931 skirmishes.
The Chinese casualties were 3.22 million soldiers, 9.13 million civilians who were collateral damage, and another 8.4 million were non-military casualties. According to historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta, at least 2.7 million civilians died during the "kill all, loot all, burn all" operation (Three Alls Policy, or sanko sakusen) implemented in May 1942 in North China by general Yasuji Okamura and authorized on 3 December 1941 by Imperial Headquarter Order number 575
Chinese sources list the total number of military and non-military casualties, both dead and wounded, at 35 million. Most Western historians believed that the total number of casualties was at least 20 million. The property loss suffered by the Chinese was valued at 383 billion US dollars according to the currency exchange rate in July 1937, roughly 50 times the GDP of Japan at that time (US$7.7 billion).
In addition, the war created 95 million refugees.
The Terracotta Army are the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China. The terracotta figures, dating from 210 BC, were discovered in 1974 by several local farmers near Xi'an, Shanxi province, China near the Mausouleum of the First Qin Emperor. The figures vary in height (183–195cm - 6ft–6ft 5in), according to their role, the tallest being the generals. 
The figures include warriors, chariots, horses, officials, acrobats, strongmen, and musicians. Current estimates are that in the three pits containing the Terracotta Army there were over 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which are still buried in the pits.
For more information, click here to visit Terracotta website
Most of you from western countries, have never heard of Baidu. However Baidu is the leading Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, and images as Google is for most of us. Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files. The domain baidu.com attracted at least 5.5 million visitors annually by 2008.
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However last December 2008, Google gain market to Baidu in China. A new virtual war is borned between Baidu and Google!
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About Baidu: "Many people have asked about the meaning of our name. 'Baidu' was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compared the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. '...hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood.' Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal."
According to the legend, these foot prints were made by only one man who everyday prayed at the same place of this monastery in Tongren, China.
Maybe most of you have read that, on 30th of January, a young Chinese employee in a Electronic shop was killed by the explosion of his mobile phone just after he finished charging the battery of his mobile phone. He was hurt to his neck and dead few minutes later. .
The accident occurred in front of a Lenovo store in Guangzhou, China. Police opened an investigation. Incident might have occurred due to one of those cheap duplicate batteries. The brand of the mobile phone was not revealed.
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Exploding phone batteries are not a new phenomenon in China, because in 2007, a 22 year old man was also killed by the explosion of his mobile phone.
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The incident also makes me wonder if it is really worth saving money when it comes to batteries. Furthermore, that makes us also wonder about all the under quality products made in China such as milk powder, toys (paintings), or food which made kill many people, kids, or babies (all over the world) to worth saving money. The made in China will get a worse and worse reputation.
According to CCTV, about 15 of the unknown creature was found in Kanas lake in China's XinJiang Province on the 5th of July 2007. Until today, most people says it is fake, others say it is true... who knows!
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Anyway, it looks like a Chinese version of the Loch Ness Monster! That has made attract many tourists already. If you go to this Province, you may be interested to visit this lake and maybe have your own opinion on this mysterious story.
Photography and filmmaking duo Jeff and Peter Hutchens capture China in its moment of change in "Lost in China". They are brothers and grew up in China. They returned to China to make this documentary film for National Geographic. You will discover a trip like no other' else.
There is an island, 1 hour far from Singapore by boat. This island is devided into two. First, a local life, where you may want to find smart Indonesian, always happy to welcome you and help you during your visit in the cities. Secondly, a resort "made in Singapore", where most tourists are spending their time for activities and shopping. .
It is a pity that local and tourists can 't met directly unless you want to spend a lot of money to go out from the resort and rent a private taxi. But most people don't know that a local bus leave the resort every day to the city. This island is anyway interesting to spend time with the family and get out from the "city life".
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One of the most interesting thing is to meet Indonesian people, willing to smile and help you at anytime. They were so charming!
According to China Daily, 1.1 million of babies born every year in China with a physical anomaly, so around 7% of the babies borned in this country. This is due to the pollution especially in the province where there are coal mines such as Shanxi. .
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Click here, if you want to see the problems in this province regarding coal mines as we talked in this blog in the past.
In China, there are 600 millions mobiles and 7 to 8 millions new subscribers every month (means either get a subscription or get a SIM card by topup cards). The salary of the subscribers are not the same as in Europe or USA so most of the services have been adapted to Chinese needs..
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Chinese people use instant messenger as QQ. It is a mixt between MSN and Skype. QQ is also used in few companies to communicate between colleagues or collaborators.
Few leaders of Chinese Mobile may come in Europe to exchange, share or propose some services already existing in China.
You may want to watch this interview (in French only):
In China, Michel Cormier introduces us Mosuo People one of the minority in China with less than 50,000 persons. Their life is originally from Tibet and haven't changed for 1000 years. More and more tourists visit them and have made them improve their life.
The documentary film "Living with Van Gogh", from Xiaoxing Cheng, is in the International Festival of TV programs (Fipa), in Biarritz /Rue 89 (FRANCE).
Beijing on 15th of January on the Euronews TV channel
Happy Chinese New Year. Best wishes for everyone. Today is the first day of the Ox Year...
More information: The Year 2009 is the 4706th Chinese year. The Chinese believe that the first king of China was the Yellow King (he was not the first emperor of China). The Yellow King became king in 2697 B.C., therefore China will enter the 4706th year on February 4th, 2009. Also, the Chinese Year uses the cycle of 60 Stem-Branch counting systems and the Ox is the 26th Stem-Branch in the cycle. Since 4705 = (60 *78) + 26, therefore this Ox Year is the 4706th Chinese Year.
After 5 years of an economic growth with 2 digits, till 13 % in 2007, the economic growth of China in 2008 is (only) 9.0 %, announced the official bureau in China, on 22nd of January. For the four quarter, the economic growth decreased dramatically to 6.8 %. But we can easily guess that actually the growth was between 5 to 6% only. The inflation, slowed down to 1.2 % during December 2008, whereas it was around 9 % at the beginning of the same year.
So it will be very interesting to check the figures during the first quarter of 2009. It will show the next social problem in China for the year 2009 especially during Spring. The cow year maybe very very hard.
More than half million Chinese lost their job, in China, during the last quarter 2008. End of December, 8.8 millions Chinese were officially without work. In 2008, the official figures of unemployment has increased for the first time since 2003, to 4.2 % for the end of this year, and 4.0 % for 2007, according to official figures, more than the forecast.
Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is every year in Harbin (Heilongjiang Province in North of China). A city is created only made of glass and brings every year several thousands of tourists.
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It is the occasion to admire wonderful work of ice sculptures from the ice sculptors who build ephemeral world.
The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has been held since 1963. It had been interrupted for a number of years during the Cultural Revolution until it was resumed in 1985.
Festival on the CCTV4 News (in Chinese)
PEPSI made an unusual advertisement for its brand in Qingdao (Shandong) by realizing a cow with around 2000 pepsi cans. Why a cow? Because according to Chinese calendar, the next year is the year of the cow! A good advertisement for Pepsi... They made also mummy cow in ... Sprite cans!
Hu Ming was 15, when she joined the Chineses Army Hospital. Twenty years later she left China and migrated to Australia where she could continue freely her paintings.
.Her paintings express dearly her worship of the female form depicting both physical strength and feminine beauty. Her works are not of a planned process born of her dreams and represents an accumulation of her diverse experiences. She has held exhibitions in Japan and Singapore with her paintings being sold to buyers in the US, Canada, Asia and Europe.
You will find Hu Ming website here.
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