The Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination and Fudan University will organize a “Shanghai World Expo Music Festival” in July involving more than 30 prestigious universities and colleges from across the world, officials said Sunday.
The participating universities and colleges include big names such as Yale University, Harvard University, Oxford University, Imperial College, Peking University and Vienna University.
From May 10 to May 25, 2010, the 9th China Art Festival will commence in Guangzhou of South China’s Guangdong Province.
There will be more than 100 art shows and 23 major exhibitions presented during the art festival. Art shows will be staged in a total of 29 venues in Guangdong Province, including cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan and Zhongshan. The construction of Guangzhou Opera House (designed by Pritzker-Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid) has also been completed.
A number of fine overseas shows will also be staged, including Italian opera Turandot, and shows from Poland, Germany and South Korea. Art and cultural exhibitions will showcase a number of fine art masterpieces in history as well as in recent years.
In order to save energy and avoid waste, Guangdong Provincial Tourism Bureau recently issued a notice, which stipulates that, starting April 1, 2010, star-rating hotels in Guangdong stop sending free disposable toiletries to guest rooms, and toiletries are only supplied upon request by guests.
The disposable toiletries involved in this policy include toothbrush, toothpaste, slippers, combs, shampoo, body wash, soap and shower cap.
According to Kyodo News, Air China will terminate the Chongqing to Central Japan International Airport (Centrair) route from March 28, 2010, and it will launch a new route from Chengdu to Centrair on the same day.
This new route will be operated daily with a stopover in Shanghai; it is expected to attract more business travelers and tourists.
Following last year’s total solar eclipse on July 22, 2009, the longest this century, the longest annular solar eclipse this millennia will be witnessed in China on January 15. The maximum magnitude annular eclipse (95%) will be visible in Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Henan and Shandong during a period from about 16:40 to 17:05 local time, while other regions will be able to witness a lesser eclipse, lasting from about 15:00 to 18:00 local time.
According to astronomers, the annular solar eclipse is calculated to be the longest one in the next one thousand years, as an eclipse lasting longer than this one won’t occur until 3043. Astronomers said in a statement that the maximum duration for the annular solar eclipse will be 11 minutes and 8 seconds, beginning at 07:06:33 UT over the Indian Ocean.
On Nov 17th, the ever largest group of terra cotta warriors was exhibited in the city of Washington, D.C of the United States.
The exhibition, themed by “Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor” officially met the American public yesterday, on Nov 19th.
According to the officials from Shaanxi museum, the exhibition showcased 15 life-size terra cotta figures, including nine warriors, and 100sets of objects, including weapons, stone armor, coins, jade ornaments, roof tiles and decorative bricks, and a bronze crane and swan.
To promote Guangxi’s tourism resources and attract more Hong Kong tourists, Guangxi Tourism Administration has signed a tourism cooperation agreement with China National Travel Service (Hong Kong) for the year 2010.
HK CTS will introduce series of Guangxi tourist products to Hong Kong citizens based on different Hong Kong tourist seasons. Apart from the traditional tourist products, it will focus more on sending four or five-day regular groups and eight-day groups to Guangxi.
After nearly 20 years of trying to court the Chinese government, the Walt Disney Company has won approval to build a theme park in Shanghai, the largest and riches city in China. The approval, will allow the entertainment giant to make what is expected to be one of the largest-ever foreign investments in China.
The Disneyland Theme Park in Shanghai would eventually sprawl over as much as 1,700 acres of Shanghais Pudong District, and would acquire an investment of as much as 4 billion US dolla…
On November 11, 2009, there will be Bullet trains to start running from Qingdao to Hankou (in Wuhan City, Hubei Province) on November 11th. The train number is D352/3. By then, the whole journey from Qingdao to Hankou will take only 11 hours, and it will be about 10 hours shorter than now. Its the first berth bullet train to run in Wuhan.
It will take only 11 hours and 26 minutes to complete the whole journey, 10 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the previous time. It’s the first berth bullet…
Chengdu City, capital of Sichuan Province, will build a wetland park at the 2010 World Expo that uses soil and vegetation to purify rainwater.
The 2,680-square-meter park in the Puxi section of the Expo site will be the city’s Urban Best Practices Area showcase.
The 20 million yuan (US$2.92 million) park can purify about 30 cubic meters of water everyday and the water will be used to flush toilets on the Expo site.
The park will be shaped like a fish as Chengdu is known as the land of f…
