- Festival of Culture Gets Under Way
Some 10,000 spectators gathered to watch a parade along Shuncheng Street in downtown Chengdu yesterday morning to mark the start of the International Festival on Intangible Cultural Heritage.
- Adopters Sought for Architectural Relics
Huangshan city in eastern China's Anhui Province, where the UNESCO world heritage site Mount Huangshan is located, is adopting a new way to protect its cultural relics.
- Beijng's Qianmen Street: A Revival of Old Dreams
Beijing's Qianmen Street, which is currently under redevelopment, will restore its streetscape to that of the early twentieth century, through use of historical photos, becoming the second pedestrian thoroughfare in the Chinese capital, after Wangfujing Street, the downtown shopping district.
- Chinese Archaeologists Discover Ancient Ceramics off Xisha Islands
Chinese archaeologists have recovered around 10,000 pieces of antique pottery and porcelain in an underwater excavation of a shipwreck believed to date back to the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) in the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea.
- Xinhua Bookstore Preparing for Revamp
Senior publicity officials of the Communist Party of China yesterday called for a general overhaul of the 70-year-old Xinhua Bookstore.
- SEPA Rules Controversial Dragon Project Illegal
A controversial 21-km dragon project, planned as a tourist attraction in a national forest in Xinzheng, Henan Province, was started without environmental assessment and is illegal, the country's environment watchdog confirmed on Monday.
- Work Begins on National Museum
The trucks roared past Tian'anmen Square on Saturday, marking the beginning of the 2.6 billion yuan (US$332 million) effort to rebuild the national museum into the world's largest.
- Folk Organizations Try to Revive Traditional Flavor of Lantern Festival
Flickering red lanterns, loud firecrackers and laughter when people goof on word puzzles -- such was the scene when some Beijing folk organizations crammed into an old hutong to relive long-gone Lantern Festival traditions.
- Traditional Festivals May Be Made National Holidays
People will probably have days off on traditional Chinese festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Pure Brightness Festival (Tomb Sweeping Festival); but the three seven-day "golden week" national holidays Labour Day (May 1), National Day (October 1) and the Chinese New Year may be shortened, said Zhai Zhenwu, a professor at the Renmin University of China, yesterday.
- Peking Opera Artist Proposes 'Purifying' TV-Reality-Shows
Mei Baojiu, a renowned Peking Opera artist, has recently proposed a necessary curb on debasing content in pop TV reality shows around the country. made the call prior to the upcoming Fifth Session of the Tenth National Committee of the country's top advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC).
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