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(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-08-25 14:24

Gao Zecheng comes to Beijing

The Yueju Opera Gao Zecheng, one of the winners of the First National Culture Awards for Opera, was staged at Beijing's Chang'an Grand Theater, recently.

The opera, performed by the Rui'an Yueju Opera Troupe from Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, tells the story of Yuan Dynasty playwright Gao Zecheng (1305-1368), who was known for his masterpiece, Romance of the Lute.

Gao was an upright official who served the people well during his tenure. After his resignation, he spent three years writing Romance of the Lute, a play that has survived 600 years.

Staged 60 times since its opening last year in Rui'an, the two-hour-long Yueju Opera Gao Zecheng is widely acclaimed in Wenzhou.

 

Hotelex Beijing begins today

The three-day Hotelex Beijing 2010, or Beijing International Hospitality Equipment & Supply Exhibition, gets underway today at the China National Convention Center. As an extension of the biggest Hotelex in Asia held every April in Shanghai, the Beijing event will focus mainly on hotels and the food industry in North China.

It will include Hotelex Specialty F&B Show 2010, organized by Beijing Tourism Industry Association (BTIA) and Shanghai UBM Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co, Ltd, and is aimed at facilitating communication between kitchen equipment manufacturers, food suppliers, as well as Chinese and Western F&B industry players.

It will bring together 10 five-star hotels and restaurants from Beijing, who will showcase their specialty dishes.

 

Yichun reaches out to tourists

The Yichun municipal government was in Beijing recently to promote tourism, and kick off a "Chinese Couples Festival". The city located in Heilongjiang in Northeast China is known for its large forest cover. As an important production base of timber, the city is home to the world's largest red pine forest, and is dubbed China's "forest capital".

Yichun's Jiayin county was where China's first dinosaur fossil - Heilongjiang Manchurian dinosaur - was found. With its beautiful forests, rivers and mountains, the city is an ideal tourist destination in all four seasons. It was rated Excellent Tourist City by the China National Tourism Bureau in 2000.

 

Top scientist honored

Leading Chinese engineer Xu Binshi has been named "foreign academician" at the Polish Academy of Science.

At a ceremony held in Beijing recently, Polish Ambassador to China Tadeusz Chomicki praised Xu's efforts to strengthen bilateral cooperation in scientific endeavors.

Xu, from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, began working with Polish scientists such as Wladyslaw Wlosinski in the 1980s and the two started many exchange programs for young researchers.

Wlosinski became the foreign associate at the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2005.

Xu pioneered surface engineering and remanufacturing engineering, and founded the National Key Laboratory for Remanufacturing.

 

Volunteers boost culture industry

Some 200 "cultural volunteers" from Zhejiang, Fujian provinces, Chongqing municipality and Beijing are expected to arrive in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and Lhasa, capital of Tibet autonomous region, for a two-week tour of performances, lectures and exhibitions on August 30.

On Oct 10, some 70 artists and cultural workers from Tibet and Xinjiang will start a cultural tour in Chongqing and Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province, to beef up their management skills for cultural and arts organizations.

Part of the Spring Rain Project, the cultural tours are aimed at boosting the development of cultural and arts industries in China.

China Daily