The giant Baihetan hydropower plant began generating electricity for the first time on Monday for a test run. The dam is located downstream of the Jinsha River, an upper section of the Yangtze River, on the border of southwest China’s Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. According to state media, the power plant has 16 generating units […]
Flowers are an important part of the upcoming 100th anniversary celebration of the CCP. At the Martyrs’ Cemetery in Nanjing, 170,000 flower pots have been placed to represent the Communist Party emblem, the number 100, and the numbers 1921 and 2021.
Nowhere in the world are there more coffee shops than in Shanghai. According to a report by that’s-Mag, there are over 7,000 of them in China’s metropolis of 26 million. This means Shanghai beats London (3,233), Tokyo (3,826), and New York with 1,591 coffee shops. London remains the leader in coffee shops per capita, with […]
Something sweet for dessert! COVID is considered over, the May travel wave is rolling in China, and at the Yungang Caves in northern China, a tourist holds up his ice cream on a stick. It’s amazing how the ice cream artist has recreated the caves faithfully.
Huaqing Innovation, a company from Shenzhen, is presenting this mini-drone at a defense trade exhibition in Malaysia. The “Kolibri” (蜂鸟) is designed to compete with its Norwegian model “Black Nano Hornet”. This tiny military device is 17 centimeters long and weighs 35 grams. It is intended to sneak undetected behind enemy lines and send images […]
Classes from space: The three taikonauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu conduct scientific experiments in zero gravity and present the Chinese space station to children via livestream. The crew of the Shenzhou-13 has been on mission for six months, and for the second time the space travelers have now been live-streamed into a […]
The Tujia live in the hills of southwest China, and like many ethnic minorities in the region, have a rich tradition of colorful weaving. Many of these traditions, like those of the neighboring Miao, are gradually disappearing as young people no longer learn them. Here, women weave cloth made of xilankapu, a type of Tujia […]