China’s Xizang to raise educational subsidy standard Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2024-01-07 18:09:30 LHASA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — The educational subsidy standard in southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region will rise again this year, according to a fiscal report unveiled on Sunday. The annual subsidy under the “Three Guarantees” policy for education in the region — providing food, accommodation, and school expenses for preschool to senior high school students from farming and herding households and impoverished urban families — will increase by 90 yuan (about 12.67 U.S. dollars) to 5,620 yuan per person in 2024, said the report submitted to the...

Feature: Ethereal dance epic vitalizes ancient Chinese painting, causing sensation in Hong Kong Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2024-01-08 20:06:45 by Huang Xitian, Lu Min HONG KONG, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — As a group of dancers wearing turquoise costumes and towering hair buns moved their bodies to a traditional Chinese melody, they appeared as if they had just stepped out of an ancient scroll painting of Chinese landscape. The Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting, a dance drama presented by Beijing-based China Oriental Performing Arts Group, made its debut in Hong Kong on Friday, immediately igniting the enthusiasm...