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Traditional Chinese festivals always have their symbolic foods－especially the four traditional big festivals. For Spring Festival, people think of dumplings. For Mid-Autumn Festival it's mooncakes. Tomb Sweeping Day has green rice balls. And the Dragon Boat Festival－or Duanwu Festival－features zongzi, or sticky rice dumplings.
Why do we eat zongzi during Dragon Boat Festival? The history behind the rice dumpling, plus 10 ways it’s prepared throughout Asia
How China is using science and technology to lift farmers out of poverty Wu Yuehui, Gu Yekai Science and technology are fully exploited by China to help its poverty alleviation efforts, which has increased income for huge batches of farmers. Since 2012, China's science and technology community has established 1 290 platforms to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in rural areas that fostered 77 000 pairs of mutual assistance and dispatched 289 800 experts to rural areas. Investing over 20 billion yuan ($3.09 billion), China's science and technology community has implemented 37 600 sci...
CHINA / SOCIETY By Lin Xiaoyi in Yichang Published: Apr 20, 2021 09:13 PM As the mammoth Three Gorges project contributes hugely to China's pursuit of low-carbon development by making great use of renewable hydropower, it is trying all possible means to reduce its impact on the ecological environment - as a result, a situation is forming where most local fish and plant species are recovering and some are having a bigger population than before the project was built. Experts reached by the Global Times did not shy away from the ecological impacts of the Three Gorges Dam, such as it changing...
Officials failed to fix Yangtze woes: ministry By HOU LIQIANG | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-23 08:22 Share CLOSE Ships sail through a section of the Xiling Gorge, one of the Three Gorges along the Yangtze River, in Zigui county of Yichang, Central China's Hubei province, Nov 29, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] Six areas criticized for poor performance in rectifying environmental problems In a rarely seen cautionary move, China's top environmental watchdog summoned leading officials of six areas on Monday for their poor performance in rectifyi...