FOR YOUR INFORMATION

 FOR YOUR INFORMATION

CCTV: Norway’s Prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre meets China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing (3 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptU82g2HCg

Tourists arrive Shanghai North Bund International Passenger Center Cruise Terminal in Hongkou District, Shanghai. The tours are called Cruises along China’s coast, operated by China Discovery Voyage, and in China by Viking Cruises (Viking Yidun) (3 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb220qffm8w

‘The Sky Eye’ of Qixing Mountain in the northwestern part of Hunan province. The platform is located 1,528 meters above sea level, in a giant ‘karst’ (limestone) mountain area, which is part of Wulingyuan Scenic Area, 18 km away from Zhangjiajie City (urban population 225,000) (short video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uCxdIkQ2-w&t=1s

A drone video showing Nanjing city, population of 9,4 million, and situated in the Yangtze River Delta (4 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FS3OVkL6Dw

Basketball synchronized drills and yoga exercises in a primary school in Dalian city, Northeast China’s Liaoning province (short video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zokRdW4xX5k

A group of Chinese shuffle dance: The dance was developed in the 1980s. It is improvised dancing where the person repeatedly ‘shuffles’ the feet inwards, then outwards, while thrusting their arms up and down, or side to side, in time with the beat (short video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPnYaXQG73o&t=27s

‘The beauty of the clouds and rivers’ interprets the ‘Liuhe big gun’ (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x24pe28ZSEk

Longer videos:

‘Shanghai City Night’, Shanghai’s 35th Tourism Festival, with 5 teams, 25 floats, and 16 overseas folk art performing troupes – from the United States, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Croatia, Chile, India and 9 performing squads from Shanghai’s sister provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, such as Xinjiang, Tibet, Jilin, Yunnan, Henan, Shaanxi (11 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS1PnGCG_MI

Celebration of 70 years of development in the Aba and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (population 895,200) in northwest Sichuan province (13 min. video)

The parade is held in Barkam town, 马尔康市 Ma'erkang shi, a county level city at 2,664 m.a.s.l. with a population of 58,390. Some of the national costumes shown are by Amdo Tibetans (mainly from 壤塘县 Zamtang County), Qiang people (from 茂县 Maoxian and 黑水县 Heishui counties), Bai people (from 九寨沟县 Jiuzhaigou county), and also Manchu, Yi, Miao, Tujia, and Zhuang. The song is «Gratitude», and the singer is Angsa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbSTotBQh4&t=1s

How much it cost to live in China’s most expensive cities (12 min. video)

A well presented, articulate, and well-edited video about the living standard in Guangzhou (Canton)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLXmiln-10Q

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Information for this monthly mailing list is collected by Rolf Melheim, co-author of «Høyhastighetslandet. Historier fra det moderne Kina» (China’s modern history and development). 

More info in Norwegian: http://www.newchinasite.wordpress.com