Category: Education

Xi Focus: Embracing festive customs with the people ahead of Spring Festival Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2024-02-05 11:06:18 BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — The 2024 Spring Festival is just around the corner, and people across China are embracing the festive atmosphere in the run-up to the most important occasion of family reunions. Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited residents in Tianjin, including villagers affected by floods last summer, and talked with shop owners and employees at an ancient culture street during his inspection...

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...