China is launching new tour routes to showcase China’s culture and its tourist treasures in the best way. The nation’s first-batch of 12 officially recommended tour routes were announced on Tuesday by China National Tourism Administration.
China hopes the new designation will attract more domestic and overseas tourists.
The draft plan is now awaiting public comment.
Among others, the 12 tour routes cover the world famous Silk Road, the Three Gorges, the Great Wall and the Yellow River.
Here are the details of the 12 routes:
1. Silk Road tour route
This route, focusing on the …
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Poland celebrated its National Pavilion Day today by replaying Chopin works in novel styles, including a rearranged rock and jazz show, an adapted song-and-dance performance and a traditional Chinese instruments arrangement.
Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski attended the celebration ceremony.
Chinese musicians played some works of world renown composers using traditional Chinese instruments such as urheen, lute and koto. The programme featured works by Chopin, Karlowicz, Paderewski and Moniuszko, as well as mazurkas and Polish folk songs.
The Expo Center auditorium also showed a 45-minute song-and-dance performance —— “Let’s …
The two winners (right) of the competition pose for photo with their certificates.
A Chinese boy and a Polish boy won the art competition for the Polish National Pavilion Day yesterday.
Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski awards the two boys their winner’s certificate.
The art competition was organized by Poland’s Pomeranian Voivodeship, and it collected applicants’ artworks for future cities in the voivodeship and Shanghai, a sister city.
Up to 635 students aged from 8 to 12 from Pomeranian Voivodeship and 235 counterparts from Shanghai joined the competition.
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The 40-minute “Heart of Love” tells the story of a young Inner Mongolian man who leaves his lover to go to Shanghai for his career. He resists all kinds of temptations of the modern city and finally goes back to the grassland to marry.
Part Broadway, part Asian steppes, the first modern opera from China’s Inner Mongolia is getting its premiere at the World Expo.
“The Heart of Love,” is directed chiefly by Don Frantz, associate producer of the big Broadway hits “The Lion King” and “Beauty and the Beast.”
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A 63-year-old retiree from Hunan Province won a 12,000-yuan (US$1,757) LCD television yesterday for being the Taiwan Pavilion’s 100,000th visitor since it opened during the Expo test operation.
Lucky Tang Yunxiang said he would visit Taiwan with his 59-year-old wife next month to return the pavilion’s hospitality.
“I told the staff they had the wrong person when I heard I’d won the prize,” he said.
The couple telephoned their daughter after receiving the prize from the pavilion president. They said they would give her the television and recommend she and her family visit …