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It is 38 C outside, and the heat in the ancient wooden house is stifling. But the crowd keeps moving from one exhibition hall to another, frequently stopping to take a closer look at the exhibits on display.
Last weekend, as part of China's "golden week" holiday surrounding National Day, hundreds of Africans congregated in the upmarket Shunyi suburb in northwest Beijing to share in the festivities.
In 1915 in Switzerland, as Albert Einstein forever changed our understanding of gravity, time and space with his General Theory of Relativity, across the world a group of young advocates strove to introduce the very concept of science to the general public in post-revolutionary China. "Mr Sai"
When Erjet, the goalkeeper for the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region's under-20 soccer team, buried his face in the grass and wept, the crowd in Shenyang Tiexi Stadium gave him an ovation fit for a hero.
Belgium is preparing for the arrival of a very important Chinese couple next spring on a trip that in scale and cost will outrival royal visits and superstar tours.
While waves were sent shockwaves through the intellectual world in 1987 as DNA evidence hailed a woman living 200,000 years ago in Africa as the earliest common ancestor (祖先 zǔxiān) to all modern humans, many of China's scientists held up the theory that an archaic form of human, the Peking man (北京猿人 běijīng yuánrén), was the true ancestor of the modern Chinese.
The village of Jingangkou, Shandong province, is like any farming community. Houses dot the landscape of green patchwork fields. Vegetables grow in the lush soil. But the mountains surrounding the village hold an archeological treasure - large bleached bones. After two months of digging in the red mountainous terrain 10 km southeast of Laiyang, paleontologists have excavated more than 200 dinosaur bones. "The soil of Laiyang has preserved the most complete remains of dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period (100 to 66 million years ago)," said Wang Xiaolin, a professor of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Because of its sheer size, China has one of the most widely distributed collections of dinosaur fossils of all countries and these slumbering beasts that ruled the world for 160 million years left many traces in almost every corner of the country.
The symphony on the theme of Confucianism performed by the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra in Paris has received a warm response from French and Chinese people alike. More than 1,300 people attended the performance at UNESCO headquarters on September 21, and many of them said that it offered them an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese culture.
The first historical homage to robots (机器人 jīqìrén) in Chinese literature comes in the form of a flirty actor made by a man named Yan Shi (偃师). To avoid the king's ire, Yan quickly disassembles his handsome golem into wood, lacquer and glue, the first humanoid robot in history.
Lin Zhishan's greatest joy is browsing her son's micro blog - without his knowledge. Her 24-year-old son, who's studying in Japan, has no inkling his mother monitors his online social networks. And Lin hopes to keep it that way. "He only tells me the good news and never lets me know about anything negative," the 51-year-old mother from Liaoning province's capital Shenyang says.
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