Summer tea set for a limited time in Beijing
The Ritz-Carlton Beijing, Financial Street is introducing a Chinese court-style afternoon tea set from June 16 to Sept 15. Joining forces with The Palace Gift, the jewelry brand authorized by the Palace Museum Cultural Products and Services, the hotel has…
Russian restaurant owner driven by passion
Architect set up venue in Harbin 19 years ago and is carving out a career in writing. Strolling down the century-old Central Pedestrian Street in Harbin, tourists cannot miss the Russian restaurant or the remarkable story of its owner. For…
Spirited Away tops Chinese mainland box office
BEIJING — Spirited Away,the 2001 Japanese animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, topped the Chinese mainland box office Friday with strong first-day performance, the China Movie Data Information Network said Saturday. The Oscar-winning film grossed over 53.4 million…
IOC perfectly satisfied with preparation of Beijing 2022
GENEVA – IOC President Thomas Bach said Thursday that he has no concern at all about the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, as his committee is perfectly satisfied with all preparation work. After discussing the report by the Chair of…
Ambitious 2050 climate goal relegated to footnote at EU summit
BRUSSELS – A push by most European Union nations for the world’s biggest economic bloc to go carbon-neutral by 2050 was dropped to a footnote at a summit on Thursday after fierce resistance from Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.…
Animated film tells of Shanghai’s industrial past
The animated film Kiangnan 1894 will be released during the National Day holiday in October. Set in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the story revolves around a teenager named A’lang, who accidentally becomes an apprentice in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Factory…
Race in Inner Mongolia autonomous region draws more than 400 runners from abroad
The 2019 “Strive to Win” Qiansen Aohan 100 International Ultra Trail was held on June 15 in Aohan city, in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. The running race comprised three categories – 30 kilometers, 50 kilometers and 100 kilometers, and…
Dutch percussion ensemble performs at horticulture event
Percussion ensemble, Slagwerk Den Haag, from the Hague, performed at the International Horticultural Exhibition 2019 in Beijing’s Yanqing district, recently. And among the pieces it performed was one written by Chinese composer Guo Wenjing, entitled Xuan. The show, organized by…
Moderate easing on horizon in H2
Central bank most likely to cut RRR of financial institutions, says analyst China’s monetary authorities may moderately ease their overall prudent policy stance in the second half of the year, helping to anchor economic growth and the stock market, analysts…
China’s endangered duck with the funny hair
Along the meandering rivers of China’s far northeastern region, a distinctive migratory duck, the Chinese merganser struggles to survive. After 10 million years, the tree dweller is teetering on the brink of extinction. Only about 2,000 remain, experts estimate. Human…