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Nearly 5,000 events in China to celebrate Cultural and Natural Heritage Day Chen Xi Published: Jun 03, 2021 06:38 PM Model of the Times photo exhibition kicks off in Beijing as CPC marks 100th anniversary Photo: Li Hao/GTOver 4,900 events will be held across China to celebrate 2021s Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, Chinas National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) announced on Thursday.  The 2021 Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, whose main venue will be in Southwest Chinas Chongqing...

China to attain carbon neutrality by 2060, It has set its sights on some of the Tibetan Plateaus wildest reaches, where it intends to construct a hydroelectric facility capable of producing thrice times the power of the Three Gorges Dam.

China swings into flood defenses as 97 rivers exceed warning levels Shan Jie Published: May 27, 2021 08:14 PM Photo taken on July 18, 2020 shows the Three Gorges Dam opening the floodgates to discharge the floodwater on the Yangtze River in central Chinas Hubei Province. Photo:Xinhua China has swung into gear to fortify its flood-defense network ahead of what may be a heavy flood season, with 97 rivers across the country having already exceeded warning levels as of Thursday.  Observers said t...

‘Swimming Out’ Film Review: Jia Zhang-Ke Keeps His Eye on a Changing China In “Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue,” the auteur examines the nation’s evolving cultural perspectives through a quartet of authors Robert Abele | May 25, 2021 @ 9:55 AM Cinema Guild The great Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke has made both dramas and documentaries across his award-winning career so far, yet what binds all his movies is a sense that the labels of fiction and non-fiction aren’t as necessary a...

High in the Himalayas, China is planning to build the mother of all mega dams Beijing is turning its sights to one of the wildest and riskiest reaches of the Tibetan Plateau where its making plans to build the worlds most powerful hydropower plant. 25 May 2021 The sheer scale of the Tibetan Plateau can be hard to fathom. Its mountain peaks stretch kilometres into the sky, while canyons below sink so deep that few people have ever been able to reach them. Its wild and spectacular but its als...

(ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) Fishing boats run aground on exposed bed of the Poyang, China’s largest freshwater lake, September 12, 2013. Lake Poyang’s water level is low because of drought and dams. The Drying Up of China’s Largest Freshwater Lake Local Fishermen and Wildlife Lose Out as Poyang Lake Falls Victim to Drought and Dams January 8, 2014 By Nicola Davison, a Shanghai-based freelance journalist. This article was first published by chinadialogue. When Jiang Minsheng moored his f...

CGGC integrates itself into Pakistan-China cooperation mechanism May 16, 2021 China Gezhouba Group Company (CGGC) will integrate itself into China and Pakistan’s overall cooperation and contribute more to Pakistan’s economic and social development, said Chen Xiaohua, President of CGGC. Chen made the remarks when meeting with Pakistani Ambassador to China Moin ul Haque in Wuhan, according to report published by China Economic Net (CEN). Haque noted that a number of key projects invested and ...

Pakistani Ambassador to China Moin ul Haque meets with Chen Xiaohua, President of China Gezhouba Group Company(CGGC) in Wuhan, China on April 6, 2021. [Photo provided by CGGC]    

Nomadland: A “Chinese” Western This year’s big Oscar-winner indicates that the U.S. and China are two sides of the same coin. By Pallavi Aiyar, May 9, 2021 Takeaways Curious thing in these times of #SinoAmerican strife: This year’s big #Oscar winner, #Nomadland, is as Chinese in subject matter as it is American. After a 14-month-long hiatus, I went to the cinema last week for the first time since COVID went viral. I watched Nomadland. It was an obvious choice, given its recent hau...

CCP’s Mekong River Belt and Road Projects a Faustian Bargain, Says Expert Renowned expert hydrologist Wang Weiluo has likened Belt and Road deals between countries along the Mekong River and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as Faustian bargains, saying that while they bring investment they are deals with the devil that hurt livelihoods. Speaking to the Hong Kong Epoch Times, Wang said that the dams on the Mekong River are destroying the ecological environment and directly threatening the de...