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Mongolian Horses put a ‘fast and furious’ display at Jirem Festival

August 20, 2023928 Views

The 24th Jirem Horse Racing Festival raised its curtain in Horqin Left Banner, Tongliao city, Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Friday, showcasing an exhilarating spectacle of riders and Mongolian horses galloping across the track and eliciting cheers from the crowd. Running from Aug. 18 to 20, the three-day festival features a diverse range of events including horse racing, wrestling, archery, Mongolian chess, and tug-of-war, totaling 25 competitive events across six major categories. The 24th Jirem Horse Racing Festival kicks off in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Aug. 18, 2023. Known as the "Nation on Horseback," the Mongolian ethnic group shares an unbreakable bond with horses. Along with wrestling and archery, horse racing is hailed as one of the "Three Manly...

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Tourists flock to Chinese zoo to see ‘human-like’ bear

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August 2, 2023821 Views

Visitors are thronging a zoo in eastern China's Zhejiang province after a video of one of its bears went viral with some netizens suggesting she looked so human that she might be a staff member in a bear suit, local media reported on Tuesday. Visitor numbers at Hangzhou Zoo have gone up by 30 percent to around 20,000 a day since a video of the Malayan Sun bear, named Angela, became a trending topic on Chinese social media over the weekend, Zhejiang province-based Chao News reported. "After seeing this bear standing up on the internet, I wanted to see how it looks in real life, so I came here," said a man surnamed You, who said he had only half-believed the video he saw online, Chao news reported. "After we saw the video on the Internet, we specially took the high-speed train ...

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Shanghai breaks more than century-old heat record

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May 29, 2023917 Views

Shanghai saw its hottest day in May for more than 100 years on Monday with temperatures hitting 36.1 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit), continuing a brutal trend of unusually hot weather in the country since March. Several southern Chinese provinces are expected to swelter under extreme heat over the next few days and weather experts have already predicted another blistering summer, a repeat of last year's record-breaking more than two-month stretch. FILE PHOTO: A person uses clothing to protect themselves from the sun, as they walk on the Bund on a hot day, in Shanghai, China May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song The peak recorded by the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau on Monday beat the previous May record of 35.7 degrees Celsius set in 1876, 1903, 1915 and 2018, according to bur...

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China is using satellites for the protection of nature

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May 27, 2023748 Views

Scientists say the system will help safeguard nature, but they want more transparency about the zones chosen for conservation China's government is the first to use satellites to monitor land set aside for conservation to ensure its protection from illegal development. Scientists hope that the move will safeguard ecologically important habitats and provide a model of remote-sensing use for conservation that other countries could follow. But they also have questions about how the nation has decided which areas to protect and where the boundaries, known as the ecological redlines, lie. “The decision makers have made a really bold step forward,” says Chi-Yeung Choi, an applied ecologist at Duke Kunshan University in Suzhou, China. He says that having a national system to protect ecolog...

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After opening borders, China presses Singapore for visa-free travel deal

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May 8, 2023742 Views

China is hammering out details with Singapore on a bilateral visa-free travel arrangement, according to Beijing's embassy, a move that could boost arrivals in the city-state from what was its biggest pre-pandemic tourism market. There were 3.6 million Chinese visitors to Singapore in 2019, more than any other country, who spent a combined S$4.1 billion ($3.09 billion). Many Chinese have in recent years been keen to invest, move assets or relocate to Singapore, with some buying into luxury real estate. Chinese tourists pose for photos with the Merlion statue at Marina Bay in Singapore May 3, 2023. REUTERS/Edgar Su Among Singapore's 4 million citizens and permanent residents, three-quarters are of Chinese ethnicity and many speak Mandarin, making it easy for mainland Chinese to ...

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China passes landmark law to protect Qinghai-Tibet Plateau ecosystem

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April 27, 2023884 Views

China's top legislature on Wednesday adopted a law to protect the fragile ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as "the roof of the world." The law on ecological conservation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, passed at a standing committee session of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, will take effect on Sept. 1. The law is a new addition to China's laws for special regions, following the enactment of the Yangtze River Protection Law, the Yellow River Protection Law, and the Black Soil Protection Law. "The plateau is an important shield for China's ecological security. Therefore, the promulgation of the law bears great significance," said Yuan Jie, head of the administrative law section of the Legislative Affairs Commission under the NPC Standing C...

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Re-opening of China is ‘the final piece in tourism’s recovery’

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February 25, 2023985 Views

Leading a high-level delegation to the city of Hangzhou to join in the official re-opening, UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili, warmly welcomed the lifting of travel restrictions as a major boost to economic growth and social opportunity both in Asia and the Pacific and globally. According to UNWTO data, the pandemic cost destinations worldwide a combined US$270 billion in Chinese outbound tourist spending in 2020 and 2021 alone. The re-opening of borders therefore represents “the moment the world has been waiting for”, Pololikashvili noted. The UNWTO Secretary-General is the first UN Head of Agency to visit China since restrictions were lifted. China’s Minister of Culture and Tourism Hu Heping welcomed UNWTO’s support throughout the pandemic and for joining the official re-o...

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Beijing set to become World’s largest travel & tourism city destination

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February 16, 20231103 Views

Cities Economic Impact Report analysed 82 cities around the world including four major Chinese metropolises Research by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has revealed that within the next decade, Beijing will overtake Paris to become the world’s largest Travel & Tourism city destination. The report, sponsored by Visa and researched in partnership with Oxford Economics, ana-lysed key indicators such as Travel & Tourism’s contribution to GDP, employment and traveller spend. But while long term the outlook for a number of Chinese cities looks positive, prolonged travel restrictions and border closures slowed down the recovery in the short term. Woman tourist walking in Wangfujing food street at Beijing, China. Copyright (c) 2017 Maridav/Shutterstock WTTC st...

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China domestic tourism picks up over Lunar New Year

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January 28, 2023953 Views

Year holiday, while cross-border travel more than doubled in the first six days of the week-long break following the end of strict COVID-19 curbs. A total of 308 million tourism trips within China have been made during the current holiday period, up 23.1% from 2022's Lunar New Year break and marking a recovery to 88.6% of the number in 2019, data from the culture and tourism ministry showed on Friday. From Jan. 21 to Jan. 26, the first six days of the holiday, a total of 2.39 million trips were made out of and into China, up 123.9% compared with the Jan. 31 to Feb. 5 period last year, the National Immigration Administration (NIA) said on Friday, citing data on trips made by various means of transport. FILE PHOTO: People walk with their luggage at a railway station during the annu...

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China’s tourists hit Thai beaches for first time in 3 years

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January 22, 2023903 Views

Hitting the white sand beaches and eating mango sticky rice and seafood, Chinese tourists are returning to Thailand for their first trips abroad since China ended its strict COVID-19 curbs and reopened its borders. “Because of the pandemic, we hadn’t been out of China for three years,” said tourist and business owner Kiki Hu, 28, in Krabi on Thailand’s southwest coast. “Now that we can leave and come here for holiday. I feel so happy and emotional”. People gather at a Taoist temple to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Phuket, Thailand January 22, 2023. REUTERS/Jorge Silva With China celebrating the Lunar New Year, Asia’s tourist hotspots have been bracing for the return of Chinese tourists, who spent $255 billion a year globally before the pandemic. Countries from Thailand to Japan...