Some 200 artists and officials who have contributed to the
revival of traditional Peking Opera were rewarded at a meeting
heldĀ in BeijingĀ on Monday.
Members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the
Communist Party of China Central Committee Jia Qinglin and Li
Changchun joined other 200 participants at the meeting.
It took 21 years for the artists to make videos for 460 famous
operas which only had sound records originally, according to the
meeting.
Their painstaking job has helped to hand down this valuable
cultural form for future descendants, according to the meeting.
(Xinhua News Agency July 10, 2007)