2016 China Trip Day 4 ~ Dahuofang Reservoir, Fushun, Liaoning
Fushun Dahuofang Reservoir is the largest man-made lake in northeast China. (110 km2 = 42 sq mi) The Dahuofang Water Tunnel is an 85.3 kilometers (53.0 mi) tunnel eight meters in diameter which provides water from the Dahuofang Reservoir to the cities of Shenyang, Fushun, Liaoyang, Anshan, Panjin, Yingkou, and Dalian. As of 2014 it is the third longest tunnel in the world.
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Visite de Tieling, Province du Liaoning, Chine
周小燕Zhou Xiaoyan-快樂的百靈鳥(The Joyful Lark).Chinese coloratura soprano.賀綠汀.花腔女高音
The song was sang by Zhou Xiaoyan about 1960's-1970's.Composed by He Luting(賀綠汀).
Zhou Xiaoyan was a Chinese vocal pedagogue and classical soprano. Dubbed by The New York Times as China's First Lady of Opera, she was considered to be the first important instructor of Western opera in China.
As a vocalist, she performed in theaters and concert halls across Europe in 1946–1947; earning the nickname the Chinese Nightingale. Under the directive of Premier Zhou Enlai, she began a career teaching voice at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1949. She remained an instructor at the Shanghai Conservatory for more than 65 years. Many of her students went on to highly successful international opera careers.
Born in Wuhan, Zhou's father, Zhou Cangbai, was a wealthy banker. She was educated at a Roman Catholic school in Shanghai which exposed her to studies in Western music. She was also influenced in her youth by the White Russian and Jewish musicians who were prevalent in 1930s Shanghai.
In 1936, at the age of 18, Zhou began her professional musical training at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. While a student at the conservatory she was a member in a performance art troupe. She rose to fame in her native country shortly after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Wishing to raise the morale of the Chinese people facing the invasion by Japan, she sang the patriotic song The Great Wall Ballad at concerts in Wuhan and Singapore which were highly regarded and inspired financial aid and the conscription of soldiers for the war effort.
In 1938 Zhou left China for studies in France after her voice teacher in Singapore told her that her voice was too throaty. She pursued studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and later at the Conservatoire russe de Paris Serge Rachmaninoff. While at the latter institution her voice blossomed into a bell-like lyric coloratura, and she befriended composer Nikolai Tcherepnin.
After eight years of studying, she embarked on a career as a concert soprano, beginning with a performance in Luxembourg in 1946.[3] While she had considered pursuing work as an operatic soprano, she pursued the concert repertoire of composers like Claude Debussy and Gabriel Fauré instead given that, according to Zhou, China had no opera at that time.
In 1946 Zhou was a featured soloist at the first Prague Spring International Music Festival; a performance which earned her the nickname the Chinese nightingale. While at the festival she became acquainted with many luminary musicians of the 20th century, including Leonard Bernstein, David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Concerts in other major European cities followed from 1946–1947, including performances in London, Paris, and cities in the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.
At the bequest of her father, Zhou abandoned her European concert tour and returned home to Shanghai in 1947. In 1949 she became acquainted with Premier Zhou Enlai and writers Ba Jin and Ding Ling at a cultural conference on literature and art organized by the Chinese government. The three men encouraged her to pursue work performing for and teaching her craft to the people of China. She spent the next ten years performing wherever the Chinese government sent her; whether it be for everyday people at factories and shipyards, or on official tours overseas to the countries of India, Poland, North Korea, and the Soviet Union. She also joined the faculty of the Shanghai Conservatory in 1949. She married Chinese film director Zhang Junxiang on May 5, 1952.
In 1970 Zhou returned to Shanghai and her post at the conservatory. However, it was not until Deng Xiaoping came into office in 1978 that Zhou was able to achieve the freedom and support she needed to build a high quality opera program. Under Deng, Zhou's program slowly grew in size and strength. In 1988 she established the Zhou Xiaoyan Young Opera Singers Trainee Center on the fourth floor of the Shanghai Conservatory. With the financial backing of the Nanjing government she coordinated a fully staged production of Verdi's Rigoletto in the Chinese language in 1989 at the Shanghai Music Festival with her students as the cast. Several more Chinese language productions followed until a newly forged partnership between the San Francisco Opera and the Shanghai Conservatory enabled productions in other languages to be mounted by the school—beginning with a French language production of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in 1996.
She and her program flourished with many of her students working successfully on the international stage. Among her pupils were opera singers Liao Changyong, Ying Fang, Ying Huang, Shenyang, Wei Song, Gu Xin, Guanqun Yu, and Jianyi Zhang.
On March 4, 2016, Zhou died at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai, aged 98.
Korean bbq - Tieling, Liaoning, China.
Dinner with cousins and mom.
Spinning top - Tieling, Liaoning, China
Guy whipping a top.
Walking the Great Wall near Dandong, Liaoning, China
Walking the Great Wall near Dandong, Liaoning, China.
遼寧省 丹東市 寛甸満族自治県 中華人民共和国, Dandong, Liaoning, China
Stazione Tieling (Liaoning-Cina) 铁岭
Collegamento av Harbin-Pechino.
Travelling through Liaoning province
D train from Dalian to Qinhuangdao. Wednesday 17th May, 2017
Chinese Reds Free Angus Ward (1949)
Unissued / Unused material.
Title - '1st films from China, Reds free Angus Ward!'.
Chinese Communists free Angus Ward, American Consul General captured at Mukden. Tientsin, China.
MS barge alongside the US freighter 'Lakeland'. MS Angus Ward and another man walking up rope ladder to the freighter. CU Ward arriving on deck of freighter. CU the Chinese Communist flag flying at masthead of the US freighter. CU Chinese Communist soldier. CU another Chinese Communist soldier. CU Angus Ward walking up companionway of freighter. CU Communist soldier on guard.
MS group posed shot of Ward, his wife and all 18 members of the Consulate staff on deck of freighter. CU Ward and wife seated at table eating. CU Ward eating. Various shots ship's doctor testing Ward's chest with stethoscope. MS ship's barber placing cape round Ward's neck before cutting off his beard. CU Ward having beard cut. MS Ward posing with 4 others behind lifebelt of the freighter. CU Ward and another posing behind lifebelt.
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Dragon Head Mountain Park in Tieling, Liaoning, China
Buddhist Temple - Tie Ling Shi Long Shan Feng Jing Ming Sheng Qu
Hand-pulled noodles - Tieling, Liaoning, China.
Watching someone stretch noodles by hand.
Temple à Qian Shan dans la province du Liaoning
Chinese village
Village is called Dalianhuacun, Tieling, Liaoning, China.
Riding behind dad on scooter.
People's Liberation Army | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:18 1 Mission statement
00:02:57 2 History
00:03:06 2.1 Second Sino-Japanese War
00:06:08 2.2 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
00:11:33 2.3 Since 1980
00:19:22 2.4 Peacekeeping operations
00:20:06 2.5 Notable events
00:23:20 3 Organization
00:23:30 3.1 National military command
00:26:15 3.2 Military leadership
00:30:28 3.3 Central Military Commission
00:33:28 3.4 2016 military reforms
00:36:17 3.5 Theater commands
00:38:12 4 Service branches
00:40:45 4.1 Ground Force
00:43:45 4.2 Navy
00:45:20 4.3 Air Force
00:46:25 4.4 Rocket Force
00:47:23 4.5 Strategic Support Force
00:48:48 5 Conscription and terms of service
00:51:07 6 Military intelligence
00:51:18 6.1 Joint Staff Department
00:58:08 6.1.1 Second Department
01:05:39 6.1.2 Third Department
01:10:23 6.1.2.1 Monitoring stations
01:13:46 6.1.3 Fourth Department
01:14:57 6.2 Liaison Department
01:16:39 6.3 Special forces
01:19:42 6.4 Sea-based nuclear weapons
01:20:46 6.5 Other branches
01:21:14 7 Weapons and equipment
01:25:01 7.1 Cyberwarfare
01:26:53 7.2 Nuclear weapons
01:33:26 7.3 Space-based warfare
01:36:02 8 Military budget
01:39:54 9 Military spending
01:41:31 10 Commercial interests
01:44:53 11 Anthem and insignia
01:45:55 12 See also
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The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the armed forces of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its founding and ruling political party, the Communist Party of China (CPC). The PLA consists of five professional service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, Rocket Force, and the Strategic Support Force. Units around the country are assigned to one of five theater commands by geographical location. The PLA is the world's largest military force and constitutes the second largest defence budget in the world. It is one of the fastest modernising military powers in the world and has been termed as a potential military superpower, with significant regional defense and rising global power projection capabilities. China is also the third largest arms exporter in the world.
The PLA is under the command of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the CPC. It is legally obliged to follow the principle of civilian control of the military, although in practical terms this principle has been implemented in such a way as to ensure the PLA is under the absolute control of the Communist Party. Its commander in chief is the Chairman of the Central Military Commission (usually the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China). Since 1949, China has used nine different military strategies, which the PLA calls “strategic guidelines.” The most important came in 1956, 1980, and 1993. In times of national emergency, the People's Armed Police and the People's Liberation Army militia act as a reserve and support element for the PLAGF.
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Tianjin ([tʰjɛ́n.tɕín] (listen)), formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the nine national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper. It is governed as one of the four municipalities under the direct administration of central government of the PRC and is thus under direct administration of the central government. Tianjin borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea. Part of the Bohai Economic Rim, it is the largest coastal city in northern China.
In terms of urban population, Tianjin is the fourth largest in China, after Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou. In terms of administrative area population, Tianjin ranks fifth in Mainland China. The walled city of Tianjin was built in 1404. As a treaty port since 1860, Tianjin has been a major seaport and gateway to Beijing. During the Boxer Rebellion the city was the seat of the Tianjin Provisional Government. Under the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China, Tianjin became one of the largest cities in the region. At that time, numerous European-style buildings and mansions were constructed in concessions, many of which are well-preserved today. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tianjin suffered a depression due to the policy of the central government and Tangshan earthquake, but recovered from 1990s. Nowadays Tianjin is a dual-core city, with its main urban area (including the old city) located along the Hai River, which connects to the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers via the Grand Canal; and Binhai, a New Area urban core located east of the old city, on the coast of the Bohai Gulf. As of the end of 2010, around 285 Fortune 500 companies have set up base in Binhai.
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China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.404 billion. Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area, depending on the source consulted. Governed by the Communist Party of China, the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
China emerged as one of the world's earliest civilizations, in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies, or dynasties, beginning with the semi-legendary Xia dynasty in 21st century BCE. Since then, China has expanded, fractured, and re-unified numerous times. In the 3rd century BCE, the Qin unified core China and established the first Chinese empire. The succeeding Han dynasty, which ruled from 206 BC until 220 AD, saw some of the most advanced technology at that time, including papermaking and the compass, along with agricultural and medical improvements. The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty (618–907) and Northern Song (960–1127) completed the Four Great Inventions. Tang culture spread widely in Asia, as the new maritime Silk Route brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and Horn of Africa. Dynastic rule ended in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution, when a republic replaced the Qing dynasty. The Chinese Civil War resulted in a division of territory in 1949, when the Communist Party of China established the People's Republic of China, a unitary one-party sovereign state on Mainland China, while the Kuomintang-led government retreated to the island of Taiwan. The political status of Taiwan remains disputed.
Since the introduction of economic reforms in 1978, China's economy has been one of the world's fastest-growing with annual growth rates consistently above 6 percent. As of 2016, it is the world's second-largest economy by nominal GDP and largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). China is also the world's largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. China is a recognized nuclear weapons state and has the world's largest standing army and second-largest defense budget. The PRC is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council as it replaced the ROC in 1971, as well as an active global partner of ASEAN Plus mechanism. China is also a leading member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), WTO, APEC, BRICS, the BCIM, and the G20. China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia, and has been characterized as a potential superpower.
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The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the armed forces of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Communist Party of China (CPC). The PLA consists of five professional service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, Rocket Force, and the Strategic Support Force. Units around the country are assigned to one of five Theater commands by geographical location. The PLA is the world's largest military force and constitutes the second largest defence budget in the world. It is one of the fastest modernising military power in the world and has been termed as a potential military superpower, with significant regional defense and rising global power projection capabilities. It is also the third largest arms exporter in the world.
The PLA is under the command of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the CPC. It is legally obliged to follow the principle of civilian control of the military, although in practical terms this principle has been implemented in such a way as to ensure the PLA is under the absolute control of the Communist Party of China. Its commander in chief is the Chairman of the Central Military Commission (usually the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China). The Ministry of National Defense, which operates under the State Council, does not exercise any authority over the PLA and is far less powerful than the CMC.
Military service is compulsory by law; however, compulsory military service in China has never been enforced due to large numbers of military and paramilitary personnel. In times of national emergency, the People's Armed Police and the People's Liberation Army militia act as a reserve and support element for the PLAGF.
Trip in Tieling new district
Enjoy Food with China friend family member in Tieling city of China 在铁岭市银州区与中国朋友的亲人一起享用午餐
Enjoy Food with China friend family member in Tieling city of China 在铁岭市银州区与中国朋友的亲人一起享用午餐
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00:03:33 1 Names
00:05:45 2 History
00:05:53 2.1 Prehistory
00:07:01 2.2 Early dynastic rule
00:08:25 2.3 Imperial China
00:14:41 2.4 End of dynastic rule
00:17:21 2.5 Republic of China (1912–1949)
00:20:40 2.6 People's Republic of China (1949–present)
00:25:08 3 Geography
00:26:08 3.1 Landscape and climate
00:28:43 3.2 Biodiversity
00:31:29 3.3 Environmental issues
00:35:06 3.4 Political geography
00:36:57 4 Politics
00:38:14 4.1 Communist Party
00:39:25 4.2 Government
00:40:48 4.3 Administrative divisions
00:41:54 4.4 Foreign relations
00:43:54 4.4.1 Trade relations
00:45:52 4.4.2 Territorial disputes
00:47:25 4.4.3 Emerging superpower status
00:48:16 4.5 Sociopolitical issues, human rights and reform
00:55:24 5 Military
00:59:09 6 Economy
01:02:08 6.1 Economic history and growth
01:09:00 6.2 China in the global economy
01:12:15 6.3 Class and income inequality
01:14:18 7 Science and technology
01:14:28 7.1 Historical
01:15:47 7.2 Modern era
01:19:59 8 Infrastructure
01:20:19 8.1 Telecommunications
01:24:19 8.2 Transport
01:29:50 8.3 Water supply and sanitation
01:30:39 9 Demographics
01:34:18 9.1 Ethnic groups
01:35:50 9.2 Languages
01:38:15 9.3 Urbanization
01:39:46 9.4 Education
01:42:33 9.5 Health
01:45:07 9.6 Religion
01:48:22 10 Culture
01:51:12 10.1 Literature
01:53:19 10.2 Cuisine
01:55:00 10.3 Sports
01:58:05 11 See also
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China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.404 billion. Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area. Governed by the Communist Party of China, the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 (de jure 23) provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
China emerged as one of the world's earliest civilizations, in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies, or dynasties, beginning with the semi-legendary Xia dynasty in 21st century BCE. Since then, China has expanded, fractured, and re-unified numerous times. In the 3rd century BCE, the Qin reunited core China and established the first Chinese empire. The succeeding Han dynasty, which ruled from 206 BC until 220 AD, saw some of the most advanced technology at that time, including papermaking and the compass, along with agricultural and medical improvements. The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty (618–907) and Northern Song (960–1127) completed the Four Great Inventions. Tang culture spread widely in Asia, as the new Silk Route brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and Horn of Africa. Dynastic rule ended in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution, when a republic replaced the Qing dynasty. The Chinese Civil War resulted in a division of territory in 1949, when the Communist Party of China established the People's Republic of China, a unitary one-party sovereign state on Mainland China, while the Kuomintang-led government retreated to the island of Taiwan. The political status of Taiwan remains disputed.
Since the introduction of economic reforms in 1978, China's economy has been one of the world's fastest-growing with annual growth rates consistently above 6 percent. According to the World Bank, China's GDP grew from $150 billion in 1978 to $12.24 trillion by 2017. Since 2010, China has been the world's second-largest economy by nominal GDP and, since 2014, the largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity (PPP). China is also the world's largest exporter and seco ...