5th of April 2011 (Qingming Jie)
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Chinese cabinet warns over eviction of farmers
Local governments have been warned not to abuse the rural land-use reform by forcibly occupying farmers' land and demolishing their homes.
China's State Council, or Cabinet, said protecting rural residents' rights and interests must always be the top priority of the reform.
A circular published on the central government's website (www.gov.cn) said measures must be taken to correct anything done wrongly.
The reform, which began in 2008, is intended to encourage rural dwellers to move from old homes into new residential buildings while the houses would be demolished and land is cultivated into farmland.
The move is designed to add farmland while improving farmers' living conditions.
Big brands cash in on China's bling obsession
Private jets, elite villas, vintage wines, one-of-a-kind jewelry, and glittering watches set with colored diamonds are transforming the Chinese beach resort into a luxury hot-spot.
In Sanya City, south China's Hainan Province, a four-day event, the Hainan Rende-zvous, which kicked off on April 1, is providing Chinese luxury-hungry consumers an intimate interacting with world-class showoffs from 195 companies.
China's largest coal producer builds processing project on China-Mongolia border
China Shenhua Energy Co. Ltd., the country's largest coal producer, has planned a huge investment to build a coal processing project on China-Mongolia border to better use coal imports from the Republic of Mongolia.
Handover ceremony of Demonstration Center of China Agricultural Technology held in Tanzania
Fu Jijun Charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Tanzania, hands over the key to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete at the handover ceremony for the Demonstration Center of China Agricultural Technology held at Dakawa town in Morogoro region, about 240 km northwestern to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, April 2, 2011. The Demonstration Center of China Agricultural Technology was sponsored by the Chinese government.
Chinese company carries out road project in Ethiopia
A Chinese delegation led by Gu Xiaojie, Ambassador of China to Ethiopia, has paid a two-day visit recently to projects run by Chinese companies here in Ethiopia.
The delegation has visited a road project in Dodola-Goba towns of the Bale Zone in southwestern Ethiopia while they met and held talks with the local community and the Chinese business people in the towns about the projects.
Xinjiang begins construction of 18 water conservation projects
Eighteen water conservation projects in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region started construction on Saturday in a bid to help nomadic families settle down.
Seventeen reservoirs and a water diversion project will be built in 18 counties in Ili, Tacheng, Altay, Bortala, Changji, Hami and Bayingolin prefectures, according to a spokesman for the regional water resources department.
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Advisable, China reset relations with Mideast
By Li Hongmei
The Western country have formed a popular perception that the Islam states of the currently unrest Middle East play an indescribable but indispensable role in deciding the rise or fall of any world power. Further, in the current context that the international system is in the phase of transformation, the significance of the Middle East "plate" looms large, geopolitically, economically and militarily. In addition, the region not only boasts abundant oil and gas reserves but has a strong and unique appeal in terms of culture and civilization. The Middle East, hence, could somewhat contain and block the extension of a power's comprehensive strength.
In what way a power, or a rising power like China, should do to deal with the strategically critical "plate"----flexing muscles for invasion or intervention, or treating each other at equal footing, seeking mutual respect and win-win----will undoubtedly determine life or death of any power's Mideast strategies.
Hukou - longest stopgap policy in China
By Li Hong
The discriminative home-buying policy, charted by Beijing, Shanghai and other Chinese cities earlier this year, which permits permanent urban residents to buy two homes, but non-permanent migrant workers to purchase only one, again sheds light on a draconian systematic divide of Chinese people – the "Hukou", or residence registration regime -- a left-over from Chairman Mao Zedong's era.
Chinese leaders join Beijingers for tree planting campaign
Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) plants a tree during a tree-planting event in Beijing, capital of China, April 2, 2011. Chinese top state and Party leaders Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang joined Beijing residents in a tree planting event on Saturday to mark the 30th anniversary of the country's volunteer tree planting campaign.
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Beichuan quake victims mourned during Qingming Festival
People mourn for the deceased in the old town of Beichuan Qiang autonomous county, Southwest China's Sichuan province, April 4, 2011. During the Qingming Festival, or the Tomb-sweeping Day, people come to the old town of Beichuan to mourn for those dead in the 8-magnitude earthquake in 2008.
Premier Wen: Farmers' rights a priority
BEIJING - Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday said regional authorities must protect farmers' rights and warned that no land should ever be taken "against a farmer's will".
Wen, who was rounding off a three-day visit to the impoverished Luliang, Shanxi province, told residents their land is a "fundamental social security" and that any transfer in use should first be agreed with the farmer.
EU wants better space cooperation with China
BRUSSELS - The European Union announced Monday that it wants to improve cooperation with China on space exploration and technology.
EU Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani said the space initiatives should become an integral part of EU foreign policy, making it all the more important to improve cooperation with China, which has a rapidly developing space policy.
'Beautician' for the Yangtze River
A dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure the Yangtze River flows smoothly
Zhu Wenfu and his wife Li Xianmei still rely on the Yangtze River for their livelihood - despite the fact the building of the Three Gorges Dam displaced them and forced them to stop fishing for a living.
Today, they are working to keep the river clean, being part of the Wanzhou environmental sanitation team, set up in 2003 to ensure that floating garbage would not reach the dam's generators.
"If the river is not clean, there will be difficulty in fishing," Zhu told Xinhua News Agency. "My wife and I joined the team for the sake of next generation."
The couple is among 100 workers of the Wanzhou team, in Chongqing municipality, who work 12 hours a day on vessels rented and operated by the Three Gorges Corporation and the local government for the clean-up work.
Zhu Wenfu (L) and his colleague scoop floating garbage from the Yangtze River section in Wanzhou, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality
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Witness of Tibet Photography Contest and Exhibit
2011 marks the 60th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet, and the magazine China's Tibet and Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Tibet Autonomous Region are jointly holding a "Witness of Tibet, 1950-2010" photography contest. In addition to prizes, all winning works will be exhibited in Beijing and Lhasa in May 2011.
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China's top political advisor meets Myanmar's new president
NAY PYI TAW, April 4 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin met with Myanmar's newly-elected President U Thein Sein here on Monday, pledging that China will continue to provide assistance within its capacity for the development of its southwestern neighbor.
Chinese Premier calls for all-around development in poverty-stricken areas
TAIYUAN, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called for more support for poverty-stricken areas during an inspection tour to Luliang Mountains, a hinterland of north China's Shanxi Province.
Despite major changes in Luliang, the living standard of farmers in underdeveloped areas, including Luliang Mountains, was still low and conditions in villages were still poor, Wen said.
"We shall continue to improve support for underdeveloped regions and encourage and lead all quarters of the society in poverty reduction," Wen said.
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CCTV Three-day Qingming Festival begins VIDEO
CCTV Qingming Festival highlights tomb expenses VIDEO
With people in China breaking out their brooms this weekend to get a jump on the upcoming Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, what's grabbing people's attention isn't the mass migration to cemeteries, but the land people will be standing on.
Soaring prices for increasingly scarce burial plots are raising eyebrows across the country.
Days before Tomb Sweeping Day, this cemetery in northeastern Jilin Province sees a drastic increase of visitors.
It has also become a place for sales promotion campaigns for tombs.
CCTV Studio interview: Soaring prices caused by land scarcity VIDEO
For more on this issue, we're now joined by our Current Affairs Commentator, Raymond Zhou.
Q1: What's your view of this phenomenon, in which plots reserved for the deceased are competing for limited space against dwellings for the living, and often drawing higher prices?
Q2: Some cities have been persuading residents to abandon earthly graves, and promoting other services like sea burials, but few people have taken those options. What are the barriers faced by this campaign?
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CCTV Garbage classification: Long way to go in China VIDEO
Garbage classification is nothing new to China's urban centers. But the additional roadside receptacles are seen by most citizens as nothing more than extra trash bins. As Ren Ting tell us, many other cities are trying to work out alternatives, to keep their communities clean.
Singing a song about garbage classification. It's written by those living in this residential area about throwing trash into different dustbins.
"I put garbage in different plastic bags, and cast them away separately."
But not all the people can do that.
"I'm not quite sure about how to classify garbage."
Back in 2000, Hangzhou was one of the eight cities chosen for a pilot project for garbage classification. But a decade later, the result is not satisfactory.
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CCTV China, Germany call for resolution in Libya VIDEO
Germany's Vice Chancellor and foreign minister Guido Westerwelle is continuing his three day visit to China, where he has talked to senior leaders about the ongoing crisis in Libya.
Both China and Germany have called for a diplomatic and political solution, instead of military action to end the conflict in Libya.
Both countries abstained in a UN Security Council vote, that authorized the establishment of a no-fly zone.
Earlier on Friday, Westerweller co-chaired the first bilateral ministerial-level strategic dialogue with Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi.
China and Germany have held four strategic dialogues at the vice-minister level since 2006. Both countries agreed in 2010 to upgrade the dialogue to the ministerial level.
CCTV Studio interview: How will China build trust VIDEO
For more analysis into the national defense white paper, we are joined in our studio by Major General Zhu Chenghu, a Professor at the Defense Affairs Institute of the PLA National Defense University.
Q1: The white paper states that China's annual defense expenditure has been kept at a reasonable level, and is in line with its economic development. But some countries are skeptical about the transparency of China's defense budget, and see China's military development as a threat. What's your view on this?
Q2: As China's economy and military power gets stronger, it is developing a growing assertion over its sovereignty claims. But this is seen by some countries as a growing threat to China's neighbors. Do you think China is taking a more active role in defending its territorial sovereignty? And how does China build trust with its neighboring countries under such circumstances?
Q3. In the white paper, China has mentioned for the first time expanding military exchanges between the Chinese Mainland and Taiwan, and the possibility of setting up a cross-strait military security mechanism. Is the Chinese Mainland gradually changing its military strategy towards Taiwan as the cross-strait relationship continues to improve?
CCTV Foreign militaries comment on PLA dev't VIDEO
With the release of China’s Defense White Paper, the country’s modernization and its new policies in military development are drawing much attention worldwide.
On Thursday, more than 100 military attaches from 80 countries attended an introduction of the paper arranged by the Ministry of National Defense.
Briefing foreign military attaches on China's National Defense policy is a routine practice of the Ministry. And a key part is clearing up doubts.
Thosmas Siegel, German Deputy Military AttachÉ, said, "The white paper says there are three stages for military development. And by 2010 you finish the first stage. How do you evaluate the situation now? ”
CCTV Tele interview: How to improve int'l monetary system? VIDEO
For more insight, we're joined on the phone by Francoise Nicolas. He's the Director of Center Asia at the French Institute of International Relations.
1) Francoise... there's a lot of talk about reforming the global monetary system. How can it be improved, to provide a more solid foundation for the global economy?
2) The dollar's dominance has been blamed by some, for financial turmoil in the past. Do you agree?
3) Seminar participants have called for a broader basket of currencies to underpin the IMF's international reserve assets... that could include currencies of emerging economies like China's yuan. What's your take on that?
4) And just briefly, can you outline what you think will add uncertainty to the global economic recovery this year?
Young minds remodel future style 
The ongoing China Fashion Week in Beijing is providing a platform for new comers and new ideas. This season, the fashion fiesta is holding seven professional competitions. Our reporter Zhang Song went to the one presented by young fashion designers from China and the United States.
Zhang Song, Beijing said "I'm here at the 798 contemporary art zone in Beijing -- famous for presenting new ideas. And now it's offering a fitting backdrop for the semiannual China Fashion Week. Young designers from China and abroad won't miss the opportunity to interpret the style of future."
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CCTV China makes first voluntary carbon deal VIDEO
China, the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, is making new environmental protection commitments, now highlighted by the first voluntary carbon credit purchase in Beijing. Tuesday's buy falls under the Panda Standard, which is the country's carbon credit evaluation and calculation mechanism.
The world's fastest growing economy is looking to move into one of the globe's hottest new financial markets: carbon trading.
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The UK taught the world how to produce in the 19th century, the US showed the world how to consume in the 20th century, and China needs to demonstrate how to develop in a sustainable way in the 21st century.
Backlash for West's cocky Libya gamble
The West has hailed the defections of Libya's foreign minister along with other senior officials as being a body blow to the embattled regime, casting the image of Gaddafi as being abandoned by his allies and more isolated by the day.
However, many Western media are pointing out that the chance for a quick resolution to the Libyan civil war from inside is looking tricky. The departure of his inner clique has painted Gaddafi into a corner, and the window for political negations is fast closing.
On Thursday, Gaddafi once again appealed for a cease-fire but vowed to "fight until the last drop of his blood." This defiant stance seems to be the only genuine card Gaddafi feels he has left to play.
Fact can often be a far crueler mistress than fiction. Loyalists and rebels, with their polar allegiances to Gaddafi and to the West, have stabbed at each other. When seeing the rebels losing ground, the West took the field, encouraging the rebels to topple the regime.
It is irresponsible for the West to abandon all political solutions but to adopt a life-and-death attitude toward the Libyan people. The West is waging a war by proxy, uncaring about the loss of civilian lives.
Libya has fallen under the influence of political conflict, marching in lockstep to the beat of Western drums. Western media spare no effort to paint Gaddafi as a consummate villain. Treacherous reports, including some barely more than rumors, are reported and spread rapidly. The only place for Gaddafi to flex his muscles is on the battlefield.
Despite being blessed by oil and awash with subsequent riches, the Middle East remains politically entrenched. As a result, its nations lack the experience to deal with drastic social changes. The disturbance in Libya has turned into a war, threatening to do harm to the whole region.
When observing the situation, outsiders usually have a clearer mind than the Libyans themselves. The Allies have sacrificed the interests of local people to secure their share of the loot, both politically and economically.
For example, Robert Kaplan, a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security, wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week that, from the US' standpoint, the spread of democracy in the Middle East was second to the power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
One thing is for certain, the street battles seen across Libya are nobody's first choice. This leads to heightened body counts and prolonged conflict. The West will find out soon: Following such a policy can only result in sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.
UN resolution legality needs a gatekeeper
On March 29, Gaddafi's army recaptured two cities. This new twist to the Libyan military situation has heaped political embarrassment on the West. It is now time to prevent the West from further abusing Security Council Resolution No. 1973.
The Western powers have acted beyond the resolution. Although the leaders of the US, Britain and France have said their military actions are only aimed at establishing a no-fly zone, the Western air strikes have directly attacked Libyan government forces and provided air support for the opposition. They have jointly demanded Gaddafi to step down immediately, which has nothing to do with Security Council resolutions.
In the absence of China, Russia, the African Union and most members of the Arab League, the London conference centered around the political landscape of the "post-Gaddafi era." This countermands the authority of the United Nations and goes against the Western declaration of "letting Libyan people determine by themselves."
The intensification of Western direct military intervention could force Gaddafi to step down soon. But the West has two obstacles: the Security Council resolution does not grant them such authority and they have to consider public opinion. The greater the opposition of global opinion, the more hesitant the West will be.
China should unite with Russia in requiring the US, Britain and France to respect Security Council resolutions.
China needs flexible diplomacy in Mideast
London held an international meeting yesterday to map out what a post-Gaddafi Libya might look like. The US is looking to step back, but as long as its stalwart allies in the UK and France insist on military action, it will not let them stand alone.
Among the international powers, China is relatively detached from the conflict. To maintain and expand China's diplomatic initiative on the Libyan issue will better aid China in dealing with the Middle East.
As long as its society is not infected by the chaos sweeping the Middle East, China possesses a strong foundation for strategic initiative. The past two months have proven that the Chinese public desires stability and remains cool-headed toward the Middle East revolution. This enables China to consider its Middle East policy based on regional geopolitics and China's global interests.
China should set out to contact the Libyan opposition forces in time. We should neither rush to recognize them, nor continue seeing them as "rebels." We should also maintain contact with Gaddafi, too. This is real detachment in diplomacy.
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Ministry of Civil Affairs: Burial Plots Not Private Property
Call it cemetery management with Chinese characteristics.
China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs, responding to growing controversy over the rising costs of burial plots in urban areas and limited-time plot rental agreements, reaffirmed over the weekend that families of the deceased do not hold property rights over grave sites and announced a series of new measures aimed at subsidizing burial costs for the country’s poor.
China Skims Milk Producers
China is ordering half of its dairy producers to close shop in effort to tidy up the country’s tainted milk industry and to usher in a new era of consumer safety.
Minmetals Plans $6.5 Billion Offer for Copper Miner
China's Minmetals Resources Ltd. said Monday it intends to make a $6.3 billion Canadian (US$6.5 billion) offer for miner Equinox Minerals Ltd., whose assets are mainly in Zambia, in the most recent move by China to secure critical raw materials to feed its rapidly growing economy and cut its dependence on foreign miners.
Chinese Rule of Law: The Rhetoric and The Reality
Two recent law-related events — a harsh conviction and a lofty statement by a leader — reflect basic tensions in Chinese law and governance that will likely continue to grow.
In Hainan, China’s Rich Learn How to Play
More than 250 of China’s richest citizens flew in to Hainan island from all points across the country on Friday afternoon, arriving on a fleet of private jets at Sanya International Airport in the resort town of Sanya before zipping off in a parade of chauffeured BMW of various models including the four-door version of the M3 and the 5-series Gran Turismo.
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Ullens Collection Sets a Chinese Art Auction Record
A triptych by living Chinese artist Zhang Xiaogang sold for 79 million Hong Kong dollars (US$10 million) on Sunday in Hong Kong, setting a new world record for contemporary Chinese art sold at auction.
Zhang Xiaogang’s ‘Forever Lasting Love’
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Casualties of China’s One Child Policy
A shocking account of family-planning attitudes and practices in China.
In 1989, the Chinese writer and broadcaster Xinran was in a remote mountain village in Shandong Province having dinner with the headman when she heard cries from an adjoining room, where his daughter-in-law was giving birth. A while later, as the midwife collected her fee, Xinran noticed a movement in the slops bucket. “To my absolute horror,” she recalls, “I saw a tiny foot poking out of the pail.” But she was the only one who was shocked. “It’s not a child,” the headman’s wife told her. “If it was, we’d be looking after it, wouldn’t we? It’s a girl baby, and we can’t keep it.”
A complex moral dimension
Kaixin OpEd – A breathtakingly shocking account of the effects of the one-child policy in China.
Kaixin reflects, though, that the same thing is happening in abortion clinics throughout the ‘west’. The major difference is that the one-child policy was implemented out of necessity; abortions in the ‘west’ are usually a lifestyle choice.
Or do you argue that killing a child at 6 weeks is different to killing a 36-week-old newborn child?
There is a complex moral dimension to this issue.
The one-child policy was implemented after the Mao era, when people were encouraged to have as many children as possible and where improvements in health meant that many more lived.
This uncontrolled growth in population had to be curtailed and the one-child policy was implemented in the early 1980’s.
It went against millennia of tradition but was accepted and implemented by the vast majority of people in the cities as a matter of necessity. These people were generally well educated and did not need a large family.
People in rural China were either un-educated or ill-educated and for millennia large families were a way of ensuring survival. In particular, male children ensured the survival of the family and the parents in their old age.
The one-child policy was soon changed to allow for two children in rural China.
However, the tradition of having a large family could not simply be legislated away. The powerful imperative to have a male heir cannot simply be legislated away.
The complex reasons behind the one-child policy were not understood by the vast majority in rural China who, as noted above, were either un-educated or ill-educated.
Hence, almost all of these horror stories will be about people in rural China.
The killing of new-born children or abandoning them is not supported by the educated people of China, who also see it with horror and disdain, and is certainly not supported by the government in China. However, as noted above, you cannot wipe away millennia of tradition with legislation.
One of the major initiatives of the government has been, as is, to educate the people from rural China as to the need for limiting the number of children.
Another initiative has been the banning of the results of a scan, so the sex of the foetus remains unknown (of course this is open to corruption, but the penalties for doctors or anyone who breaks the law are severe).
This does not excuse the killing of newborn babies. It does, perhaps, bring a little understanding as to the driving forces behind it.
Before people in the ‘west’ point their collective fingers in righteous indignation, perhaps they should ponder on the moral dimension of killing a new life at six weeks and at around thirty six weeks, killing a new-born life.
One, the taking of life driven by the practical imperative of curbing population and by millennia of tradition, the other, a life-style choice.
Stories of Loss and Love
By Xinran
Translated by Nicky Harman
Xue Xinran
"Real China is made by Chinese mothers and grandmothers, from each individual family's hard work," says Xinran.
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At China’s New Museum, History Toes Party Line
The National Museum of China showcases the Communist Party’s efforts to control the narrative of history.
An exhibit at the new National Museum of China recreates Mao Zedong declaring the start of Communist control. More Photos »
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Taiwan's trade pact critics too quick off their mark
By Jens Kastner
Critics of a trade pact between Taiwan and mainland China claim a recent government-commissioned report backs their warnings that the agreement would hurt the island's industries. The report's lead author retorts that the findings indicate no such thing.
Taiwan's politicians in the crosshairs
By Jens Kastner
With security checks in Taiwan more stringent for getting into a nightclub than a political event, politicians are vulnerable to attacks such as the attempt on the lives of the president and his deputy in 2004 that caused a political furor. Politicians, however, remain unwilling to demand better protection, and despite a shooting last year, tighter security is just not part of the culture.
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Tripoli, the new Troy
By Pepe Escobar
Muammar Gaddafi is "winning" like the king of besieged Troy did for 10 years. The problem with the Odyssey Dawn script is that a rebel Ulysses or a Helen is nowhere to be found and a cast of characters of infiltrated special forces including Central Intelligence Agency covert ops will be key. Many a Libyan will eventually have to acknowledge it's best to beware of Westerners bearing gifts.
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Endgame: Divide, rule and get the oil
By Pepe Escobar
Western moral uprightness on Libya to coalition Gulf countries goes something like this: If you sell us a lot of oil, buy our weapons, and smash al-Qaeda, that's fine; you may even kill your own people, provided it's dozens, not thousands. That's how Saudi Arabia can get away with anything. The forces of counter-revolution are now joined at the hip with the West.
Syrian sauce for the Chinese gander
By Peter Lee
The official Chinese mood over Libya is shaped by the speed with which a regime was stripped of legitimacy and exposed to military intervention, but whether it will shake the convictions of China's interventionist liberal hawks is another matter. The darkening fate of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, which models itself on China, is altogether more pertinent to Beijing's yearning for stability.
The issue in Libya is the astounding ease with which a regime that found itself at cross-purposes with the United States was unilaterally stripped of its legitimacy and exposed to military intervention through aggressive and creative interpretation of an ambiguous UN resolution - in a mere three days.
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Yulan blossoms welcome spring in Beijing
Children play under a Yulan tree in blossom in a park in Beijing, capital of China, April 2, 2011. The Yulan festival opened Saturday in Beijing International Sculpture Park, where more than 5,000 Yulan trees are in blossom, attracting numerous visitors.
Picking a burial site is a grave decision
Feng Shui master helps people locate an ideal spot for the dead and the living
Zhen Yi was extremely busy between Spring Festival in February and April's Qingming or Tomb Sweeping Festival, the peak season for Chinese people to select graves and move the deceased to graveyards. The 64-year-old Beijing-based Feng Shui practitioner often accompanied his customers to cemeteries to help them choose an ideal place that balances the yin and yang, as well as the five elements of nature, to achieve harmony.
Stone statues line the 'Sacred Way', the road leading to the Ming Tombs in Changping county, Beijing, the final resting place for 13 emperors of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The road was designed to allow emperors travel between heaven and Earth.
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"I think of Buddha." - VIDEO
Bow after bow, prayer after prayer, tens of thousands of devout Buddhists worship Buddha every day. For followers who believe in reincarnation, life doesn't really have a beginning or an end, just like a circle, so they call their worship "circling the scripture".
China Daily's multimedia reporter Feng Xin was in Tibet to circle the scripture and meet some Buddhists.
CCTV Exclusive interview: Bejing - New fashion capital VIDEO
Born in Brussels, made in New York and now here in Beijing. Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg is an icon of our times.
She's just opened a major career retrospective in the Chinese capital.
Married first to a prince, and then to a media magnate, it's been four decades since her "Wrap Dress" rocked the world.
As she told James Chau in this special interview China is the place to be.
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A model presents a creation for the 2011 Aimer Swimwear Collection during China Fashion Week in Beijing.
Bikini fever at China Fashion Week - VIDEO
A bikini show presented by Beijing Aimer Lingerie was the climax of China Fashion Week at D-Park Beijing House in the 798 Art District
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