Wednesday, January 03, 2007
crienglish.com - 3 Jan 2007
China Donates Culture Center to Bangladesh
"It will be a vocational center, where boys and girls learn computer technology and where all types of newspapers, magazines and books are available, including Chinese weekly magazine Beijing Review, English version of Chinese books like Mao Zedong on Diplomacy, Islam in China, China Sports, etc."
Loss of Hutongs Plagues Capital
In the 1980s, the city boasted more than 3,679 hutongs. Two thirds have been destroyed up till now giving way to the new developmnent.
Beijing had 458 hutongs in the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and 978 of the communities during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
The Panda
China has 217 pandas that have been bred in captivity.
There are about 1,600 pandas living in the wild in China. The vast majority of them -- about 1,100 -- live in one of the 59 natural reserves that China had set up for pandas by the end of 2006.
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