More than 1,200 musicians set a Guinness World Record for the largest reed ensemble featuring the sheng – a traditional Chinese free-reed instrument – at a Hong Kong concert on Sunday. The “Endless Sheng, Thousand Reeds in Harmony” marathon opened the International Sheng and Reeds Festival of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, marking one of…
China has activated what may be the world’s largest distributed AI computing pool alongside a high-speed data network that has been planned for more than a decade, according to an official state newspaper. It said this optical network linked computing centres separated by distance so they could work together almost as efficiently as a single…
In a lengthy article on Saturday detailing some of the build-up to the Communist Party’s fourth plenum this week, state news agency Xinhua and party mouthpiece People’s Daily said Xi “personally headed” the team that drafted the outline for the next five-year plan. “[He] oversaw and guided the formulation of the proposal for the 15th…
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The Chinese transport authorities are preparing for a major travel rush as millions take to the roads and railways at the end of the national “golden week” holiday. On Monday, the Ministry of Public Security noted that a significant increase in return traffic flow was expected on Tuesday, especially in four megacity clusters: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the…
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, the world’s tallest bridge, officially opened to traffic on Sunday morning in Southwest China’s Guizhou province, Xinhua news agency reported. After three years of construction, the colossal structure has reduced travel time across the deep canyon from two hours to just two minutes. Soaring 625 metres above the Beipan River…
The world’s tallest bridge opened to traffic Sunday morning in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, slashing travel time across a deep canyon from two hours to just two minutes after three years of construction, News.az reports citing Xinhua. The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, soaring 625 meters above the Beipan River in Guizhou’s mountainous terrain, is nearly…
Like many children, Emilia Li loves arts and crafts and hanging out at the beach. But what makes the Hong Kong eight-year-old stand out from the crowd is Shek O Beach Club, a tie-dye fashion brand she founded with the help of her mother, Jillian Xin. “I called it Shek O Beach Club because Shek…
Police in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have arrested a driver after a car ploughed into a crowd of people at a bus stop on Sunday afternoon. Authorities in the city of Tengzhou confirmed the crash on Monday afternoon, adding that the driver had been detained, according to Jimu News, an online media outlet…