Category: Religious notes

(Xinhua)09:58, July 03, 2020

BEIJING, July 2 (Xinhua) — China will bestow memorial medals upon Chinese Peoples Volunteer Army veterans in the 1950-53 Korean War to mark the 70th anniversary of their participation.

The medals are to be presented in the name of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission, said a statement released Thursday by an office in charge of granting Party and state awards and honors.

In addition to those who fought in the war, other people eligible for the medals include those who provided services during the war such as medical workers, transport sector workers, translators, truce talk participants, militia, migrant workers, journalists, writers, photographers, as well as those who stayed on to help with post-war economic recovery in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea after the armistice was signed in July 1953 to the full withdrawal of the volunteer army in October 1958, the statement said.

The issuance will start from October 2020.

(China Daily)09:54, May 20, 2019

A wedding dress is exhibited at a museum of broken relationships in Taiyuan, capital of North Chinas Shanxi province. (Photo/sxrb.com)

Just 20 days after the opening of a museum of broken relationships in Taiyuan, capital of North Chinas Shanxi province, its owner joked that it was turning into a blind date site, thecover.cn reported.

Since it opened to the public on April 25, the museum has received 500 visitors every day, aged between 16 and 25.

The number of its exhibits, ranging from train tickets and an unfinished self-knitted sweater to a wedding dress and a tie with a lipstick mark, has increased by threefold to more than 200. All the objects are left behind from breakups and donated by the public.

People seem to find closure for a broken relationship by donating souvenirs from former lover, Kang Shidong, owner of the museum, told Shanxis news portal sxrb.com. He said a young man brought a bracelet and spent a whole afternoon writing a note, elaborating his love story.

Besides closure, what surprises Kang is that some visitors fell in love after coming across each other at the museum. As far as I know, some have entered romantic relationships, said Kang. Im happy to see that. The purpose of establishing such a museum is for people to say goodbye to their old relationship and stride into a new one.

The idea of setting up such a museum came to Kang when he visited a museum of broken relationships in Chengdu, capital of Southwest Chinas Sichuan province, with two friends in January. They thought it would be a good thing for Taiyuan to have a place for people to bury souvenirs from a failed relationship.

They acted fast and opened the museum after three months preparation.

The worlds first museum of broken relationships was founded in Croatia in 2006 by two artists, who ended their four-year relationship and got the idea of setting up a museum to house their leftover personal items.

China has several museums of broken relationships now, in Nanjing, Chengdu, Xian, Wuhan, Beijing, Chongqing, Jinan, Harbin, Changsha, Guangzhou and Changchun.

(Xinhua)16:57, June 25, 2019

WUHAN, June 25 (Xinhua) — Police in Wuhan, central Chinas Hubei Province, said Tuesday that they had seized 20 kg of drugs disguised as milk powder in a parcel.

A drug dealer surnamed Liao and a woman who lived in the same apartment with him caught the attention of local police at the end of April.

The two were caught on June 9, with 36 cans of milk powder seized at the scene. The investigation indicated that the disguised drugs packed in 36 cans were mainly methamphetamine and magu, a stimulant composed of methamphetamine and caffeine, smuggled from Myanmar.

The suspect confessed that she bought them from an upper dealer who managed to traffic them through the southwestern border province of Yunnan.

The two suspects were arrested and the case is under further investigation

(Global Times)15:12, May 08, 2019

The ongoing live-fire exercise of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) north of the Taiwan Straits is an annual arrangement to show Chinas ability to uphold its national sovereignty and territorial integrity, experts said.

The military exercise is being conducted in waters off East Chinas Zhejiang Province, north of Taipei in Taiwan, from 6 am May 5 to 6 pm May 10, according to yhnews.zjol.com.cn, a Zhejiang-based news site, on Monday.

Fishing boats are forbidden to enter the 12 fishing zones during the exercise, said the notice, which was issued by the Taizhou government.

The drill is an annual military exercise, which is coordinated with the joint China-Russia naval exercise in the north and China-Thailand naval training in the south, Wu Jian, a Shanghai-based military expert, told the Global Times on Monday.

A six-day Joint Sea-2019 naval exercise participated by the Chinese and Russian navies ended on Saturday in East Chinas Shandong Province, and naval forces from China and Thailand are conducting a joint exercise at a military port in South Chinas Guangdong Province scheduled to end on Thursday.

In April, the PLA conducted encirclement drills of vessels, bombers and reconnaissance aircraft from its Eastern Theater Command around the island of Taiwan.

The exercise was held amid the passage of US ships through the Taiwan Straits recently, but it was not launched to provoke any third party. Normally from March to May each year, China will conduct live-fire military exercises, said Wu.

Two US ships, the USS William P. Lawrence and USS Stethem, Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, passed through the Taiwan Straits on April 28, making it the fourth time that the US has sent warships through the Taiwan Straits in the past five months.

The exercise, however, is not aimed at showing Chinas full ability to protect its national sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests, Wu said.

(Xinhua)09:21, July 06, 2019

BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua) — The Chinese Ministry of Education pledged to train more domestic workers, improve the quality of such training and deepen the integration between the industry and teaching in the household service sector.

The ministry plans to ensure at least one undergraduate program and several vocational programs specializing in household services in each provincial-level locality across the nation, according to Xie Li, deputy director of the ministrys department of vocational and adult education, at a press conference Friday.

Under a current program to expand enrollments in vocational schools, a priority will be given to household service majors in a bid to train more professional workers, Xie said.

To promote school-enterprise cooperation, the ministry, working with Chinas National Development and Reform Commission, plans to foster at least 100 household service companies that integrate the teaching and practice of the profession.

Authorities will also support qualified businesses in opening vocational schools, Xie said.

China now offers more than 3,000 training and educational programs on household services, covering dozens of relevant majors, at vocational schools and colleges.

New majors introduced in 2019 at vocational schools include intelligent elderly care, babysitting and childcare, Xie said.

(Global Times)13:25, June 25, 2019

A Chinese unmanned transport aircraft taxis on a runway in an aerial delivery exercise in Northwest Chinas Gansu Province. Photo: screenshot from China Central Television

Chinese military analysts predicted on Sunday that more unmanned transport aircraft could join the Chinese military logistics arsenal for long-range and heavy delivery in the future, as the Chinese military recently made breakthroughs in the heavy cargo delivery exercise with an unmanned transport plane.

Jointly held by the National Defense University of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) and the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, an aerial delivery exercise took place recently in Zhangye, Northwest Chinas Gansu Province, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Thursday.

The exercise featured an unmanned single-engine biplane, the designation of which was not revealed, as it carried a cargo of military supplies and successfully airdropped it into a target zone, according to the CCTV report.

This is the first time China has conducted a parachuted aerial delivery of cargo weighing more than 500 kilograms on a flight distance of more than 500 kilometers with an unmanned transport aircraft, CCTV quoted Li Ruixing, the president of the PLA National Defense Universitys joint logistics academy, as saying.

We 鈥?explored a new model of military cargo delivery in joint combat as well as in strategic and tactical logistics support, Li said.

Since transport planes usually do not need to make intense and complicated maneuvers like fighter jets, even heavier cargo delivery missions could become unmanned if this technology becomes mature, a military expert who asked not to be named told the Global Times on Sunday.

Airdrops often take place within the range of hostile anti-aircraft fire, so being unmanned lowers risk to life, the expert said.

The exercise also means that the Chinese military now has the first large unmanned equipment in its logistics arsenal, the CCTV report said, noting that the mission was carried out on a plateau with a complicated terrain.

The exercise met our expected objective. It is very significant for our unmanned logistics chain in future warfare, said Bi Guangyuan, executive director of the exercise, CCTV reported.