Bing Dwen Dwen is the name of one of the two mascots of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The giant snowsuit-wearing panda was designed by Cao Xue, a chief designer at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. The fact that he is now waving to passers-by on the Wangfujing shopping mile in Beijing shows the message […]
Emperor Han Wendi ascended the throne in 180 BC at the age of 23 and then ruled for 23 years. The Han Empire was already flourishing at the time, while Rome was just beginning its expansion into northern Italy and Spain. A major discovery near Xi’an, the former capital of Chang’an, now tells us more […]
Advent celestial spectacle: Tonight, one of the most prolific meteor showers of the year reached its peak – the Geminids. Over the mountain massif Yulong Xueshan not far from the city of Lijiang in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, the shooting stars lit up the night sky. Along with the summer Perseids, the Geminids […]
Artificial snow for the kicker: Preparations for the Winter Olympics have begun at the Shougang Big Air sports venue in Shijingshan. The big air freestyle skiing and snowboarding competitions of the 2022 Winter Games will take place there from February. The Big Air ski jump is located on the site of a former steel mill […]
Cranes at Poyang Lake in Nanchang (Jiangxi Province). Many migratory bird species from the north gather here in winter, appreciating the milder climate. The large birds also perform their dances here. Their sharp, trumpet-like cries echo across the lake.
The Chinese lunar robot “Yutu 2”, the second Jade Rabbit, has found something! On the far side of the moon, it is said to have spotted a “cube-shaped” object on the surface of Earth’s companion. This caused great excitement on social media, after all, the object looks a bit like the black monolith from the […]
Heavy seas: A Chinese container ship has run ashore on the west coast of the Russian island of Sakhalin. On Monday afternoon, a storm had pushed the aged barge Xing Yuan against the shore of the city of Cholmsk. The 12-member crew was evacuated by the Russian coast guard. The ship was traveling without cargo […]
Wreaths of flowers instead of champagne for the inauguration of the more than 1,000-kilometer-long train route from Kunming, the capital of the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, to Laos. The final section between the China-Laos border town of Boten and Vientiane, the capital of Laos, has been put into operation. The project, which came about […]
A 15-meter high crayfish rises in the city of Qianjiang in Hubei. Crayfish are a local specialty. Qianjiang is particularly smart about it and has built up an integrated agricultural industry of rice cultivation and crayfish breeding. This has created the largest crayfish cluster in the world.
