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A visitor takes photos during an ox-themed exhibition welcoming the Year of the Ox at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 10, 2021. (Photo by Hu Zhixuan/Xinhua) BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Tourists are swarming back to Beijings major attractions, with the visitor numbers during the first three days of the Spring Festival holiday bouncing back to 91 percent of the 2019 level despite stringent anti-epidemic measures in place. The citys 147 key tourist spots saw about ...

About 46% of the contiguous U.S. was in drought at the end of January, the most for the month since 2013. Spain lies blanketed in heavy snow on January 12, 2021, in the wake of Windstorm Filomena, Earth’s most expensive weather-related disaster of January, with $2.2 billion in damage to Madrid alone. (Image credit: Modified Sentinel-3 satellite data from Pierre Markuse) January 2021 was the seventh warmest January since global record keeping began in 1880, 0.80 degrees Celsius (1.44°F) above...

Niche sports broaden childrens horizons By Zhang Yi | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-02-08 09:26 Share CLOSE Children practice fencing during a training program at Vango Sports, a fencing club in Beijing, in September. ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY Almost every weekend, Luo Hua takes her 8-year-old daughter to horseback riding lessons at an equestrian club on the outskirts of Fuzhou, Fujian province. The grade three primary school student has been learni...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A lightning flash stroked at the Central Radio and Television tower on 7 July 2017, photographed by Kuirun Zhong. view more  Credit: ©Science China Press Severe thunderstorms often produce lightning, heavy precipitation, hails, and wind gusts, and cause significant economic losses and casualties in the region they passed through. So, their prediction is one of the primary concerns of not only weather forecasters but also local government and public. However, the accura...

CHINA / SOCIETY By Global Times Published: Jan 10, 2021 07:07 PM An employee at DiDi Chuxing sprays disinfectant in a DiDi drivers car on March 13 in Hangzhou, East Chinas Zhejiang Province. Beijing on Saturday reported one newly confirmed COVID-19 case and one asymptomatic case. The asymptomatic case is the confirmed patients son, aged 27, who works as an online ride-hailing driver. He tested positive for coronavirus when he accompanied his father to the doctors on Friday. Photo: cnsphot...

COVID-19 Cluster Outbreaks Occuring Throughout China More Chinese cities announced new CCP virus cases over the weekend, with authorities announcing “wartime” mode one by one. “At present, the epidemic in our country has entered the stage of ‘multi-point outbreak.’ … Over 20 cluster outbreaks have occurred in different regions,” Zhang Boli, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, wrote in his article publi...

Beijing raises risk level to medium for a hotel in Chaoyang district starting from Saturday Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/19 15:31:34 Medical workers collect a throat swab from a citizen at a nucleic acid testing site in Haidian District of Beijing, capital of China, June 18, 2020.File photo:Xinhua  Beijing raised its COVID-19 emergency risk level for the Dashanzi branch store of Hanting Hotel in Chaoyang district and other stores in the building to medium from Saturday, Beijings...

Forced Demolition of Housing Community in Beijing Sparks Protests Among Residents The forced demolition of a housing community in Beijing has led thousands of homeowners to protest in the past few days, as authorities have threatened them to vacate the premises immediately. One resident was detained for her alleged role in instigating the protests. Some locals told The Epoch Times that the demolition was ordered by the central government. The forced demolition of homes in Xiangtang New Village,...

Freedom of Speech in China Posted by Wu Nan | Apr 23, 2008 Frog in a Well blogs on Chang Ping, editor in Southern Metropolis Daily, who criticized Chinese nationalists’ response to the western media’s wrong reporting of Tibet. Danwei has some links on the current war over free speech in China. The whole thing was sparked by an April 3 editorial in Southern Metropolis Daily. The author, Chang Ping, was critical of some of the Chinese responses to western media coverage of Tibet. I have not r...