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d they were worried about the prospects of Hong Kong tourism in the next year.
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China must boost high-quality development, according to a meeting of the P
上海后花园品茶微信olitical Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee presided over by
President Xi Jinping on July 30. Xi has talked about high-quality development many times this year.
President Xi stressed the need to unswervingly advance supply-side structural r
eform, foster new growth points and achieve high-quality development in a down-to-earth manner.
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repeated blows make the poet lose passion for love and devote himself to art and poetry.
The NCPA production by world-acclaimed opera director Fr上海后花园女神会所
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The Paris Opera Ballet stages Nureyev’s vivid production of the Tchaikovsky classic, Zhang Kun reports in Shanghai.
上海后花园女神会所The Paris Opera Ballet, the national ballet company of France, wra
pped up a week of performances on Friday in Shanghai, the only stop in China during its s
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It was just one of a series of events to celebrate the POB’s 350th anniversary. The compa
上海后花园女神会所ny presented four performances of Swan Lake in Shanghai from June 29 to July 1 and two per
formances of a gala show, featuring creations by three contemporary choreographers, that concluded on Friday.
The company made the decision to perform Swan Lake in Shanghai not only because it is on
e of the most beloved productions in the ballet world, famed for its robust energy and rich color. More imp
ortantly, the version created by Rudolf Nureyev (1938-93) is one that “best represents the style, aesthetics and cap
abilities of the Paris Opera Ballet”, says Flavien Moglia, executive president of the company.
Nureyev, one of the former Soviet Union’s best-known dancers, created a new versio
n of Swan Lake in 1984, when he was the director of the company. Also considered one of the greatest male ballet danc
ers of the 20th century, Nureyev brought a new depth to the ballet, especially by adding a psychological angle to
the role of the prince, says Jean-Guillaume Bart, a ballet master with the POB.Nureyev gave the story a Freudian di
mension, illuminating Tchaikovsky’s poetic dream with a profound sense of hopelessness, he adds.
In Nureyev’s Swan Lake, the dark wizard is an ambiguous figure. At first, he serves as a sort of tutor or guide to the prince, bef
ore gradually turning into a negative influence that mirrors the dark side of the prince. The contrast between the w
hite swan and black swan also reflects the two sides of the prince’s soul, Bart explains.
Also, Nureyev introduced difficult new movements and gestures into his choreography. “We hope audiences can appre
ciate the depth of Swan Lake, rather than just seeing it as a traditional and established ballet production.”
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January 6 (Xiong 上海后花园女神会所Jiali) Spring Festival is approaching. Have you bought any tickets? New Year’s
Eve train tickets are on sale today. Get ready to rush for tickets!
It ispring Festival Transport in 2019, China’s railways are expected to
send 41.33 million passengers, an increase of 31.76 million passengers, an increase of 8.3% over the
sameage of 10.33 million passengers per day, a new record for the Spring Festival Transport.
This week, we caught up with the train tickets in the rush period of the Spring Festival Transport
(December 27, 28, 29), especially today (6), just in time for the train tickets on New Year’s Eve (February 4). For returnees who want to
catc the 6th day is a rare time to grab tickets.
There are many good news for the Spring Festival Transport in 2019, including the “standby ticket purchase”
function on line, the proportion of online ticket purchase requiring verification codes has been greatly reduced, and so on. In addition, since
Teachers are already under a lot of stress, and it is im
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. “It might not replace human teachers, but it can free them from tedious tasks.”
For years, burnout has been a serious issue for the teaching profession around the globe. According
to a 2014 report by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a teachers’ advocacy group, roughly 50
0,000 teachers in the United States either move to new jobs or leave the profession every year.
Speaking at the 2019 National Education Work Conference in Beijing, Chen Baosheng, minister of education, said his minis
try has made reducing unnecessary work for teachers one of this year’s top priorities.
“We have to free teachers from pointless paperwork and nonteaching-related work,” he said.
“We have to give time and energy back to teachers to let them work on their research and on preparing lessons.”
The leading pipa player says that though she has perfor
rformed on stage along with Western instruments such as guitars and violins, it was the first tim
e she performed the piece with a balalaika player, and she was excited to see the outcome.
“Music itself is the language. Despite the fact that we are from different countries, when we s
tart to play, we can communicate with each other through music,” Zhao said.
The China National Traditional Orchestra performed a concert in t
he Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, on Wednesday, presenting a fusion of Chinese and Russ
ian music and celebrating the 70 years of diplomatic relations between the countries.
Robin Haynes Fisher, 44, died in the so-called “death
h zone” known for low levels of oxygen on descent from the summit, Mira Acharya, a tourism department official, said.
He is the eighth fatality on Qomolangma in the current climbing season that ends this month.
“He died because of weakness after a long ascent and difficult descent,” Mu
rari Sharma of the Everest Parivar Treks company that arranged his logistics told Re
uters. “He was descending with his sherpa guides from the summit when he suddenly fainted.”
Fellow guides changed Fisher’s oxygen bottle and offered him water, but could not save him, Sharma said.
Garrett Madison of the US based Madison Mountainee
ring company that sponsors climbers to Mount Qomolangma said many were not “well qualif
ied or prepared climbers” and were without the support necessary to ascend and descend safely.
While eating alone is hardly a novel experience in many
“Chinese culture is family-based. Everyone wants to have a group of people eating toget
her, so eating is more of a collective behavior. People either eat with family members at home or with colle
agues and clients at work,” said Cai Yani, who has directed a series of short videos about solo dining.
Eating together is considered crucial for family bonding. On a typical Chinese dining table, one rarely finds dishes for indi
viduals; instead, there is usually a range of dishes－meat, fish, vegetables and soup－for everyone to share.
Restaurants usually boast round tables with a rotatable surface, known as a “lazy Susan” in the West, to make sharing easier.
The move away from the traditional sharing approach is largely due to a demo
graphic shift in the country, especially a sharp rise in the number of unmarried people. Statistics from the Mi
nistry of Civil Affairs show that more than 200 million people were living on their own in 2017.
This facial recognition app tells one panda from another
Having trouble discerning one furry panda from another? A facial recognition app will make it easy for you.
The app is developed by the China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Pand
as along with researchers in Singapore Nanyang Technological university and Sichuan Normal University.
The image analysis research kicked off in 2017. A database now contains about 120,000 images and 10,000 video clips of giant pandas.
Close to 10,000 panda pictures have been analyzed, marked and annotated.
Using the database, researchers are able to carry out automa
tic facial recognition on panda faces to tell one animal from another, the center said.
competitors. This was the policy followed by the US in the
in the 19th century and by Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea in the years after World War II.
