Exploring Chongqing: Would you eat hotpot in a cave?
When people think of “Chongqing”, the first thing that comes to mind is food, especially the famous Chongqing hotpot. However, do you know the most uniquely Chongqing way of eating hotpot?
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Chengdu-Kunming Railway Episode 2 成昆铁路－2
In 1974 China's Central Movie News department created a 60 minute documentary, black and white except for the last 6 minutes. There are versions of this at and This displayed the pride of the New China's achievements in railway engineering. Some years distant from the events CCTV revisited this documentary and expanded it into 6 commercial half hour episodes, with interviews from people who worked on the job, and modern comment on the social and geopolitical events of the time, inside China and foreign, that affected the building of this railway. Episode 2 tells how starting to build this railway was affected by the mineral discovery at Panzhihua, the Vietnam war, Great Leap Forward and Sino-Soviet rift. English subtitles added by xinxingren.
2008 Sichuan earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:33 1 Geology
00:07:12 1.1 Tectonics
00:13:27 1.2 Intensities and damage area
00:18:56 1.3 Aftershocks
00:20:31 2 Damage and casualties
00:21:29 2.1 Extent of the tremors
00:23:58 2.2 Immediate aftermath
00:31:03 2.3 Casualties
00:36:28 2.4 Property damage
00:39:53 2.5 Later casualties
00:42:27 2.5.1 Government data
00:43:27 3 Rescue efforts
00:55:11 3.1 Quake lakes
00:57:30 4 Domestic reactions
01:03:06 5 Collapse of schoolhouses
01:13:36 6 Foreign and domestic aid
01:14:15 6.1 Mainland China
01:17:27 7 First anniversary
01:18:16 8 Completion of works
01:19:53 9 Precursors and postmortems
01:26:08 10 See also
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The 2008 Sichuan earthquake (Chinese: 汶川大地震; pinyin: Wènchuān dà dìzhèn; literally: 'Great Wenchuan earthquake'), also known as the Great Sichuan earthquake or Wenchuan earthquake, occurred at 14:28:01 China Standard Time on May 12, 2008. Measuring at 8.0 Ms (7.9 Mw), the earthquake's epicenter was located 80 kilometres (50 mi) west-northwest of Chengdu, the provincial capital, with a focal depth of 19 km (12 mi). The earthquake ruptured the fault for over 240 km (150 mi), with surface displacements of several meters. The earthquake was also felt in nearby countries and as far away as both Beijing and Shanghai—1,500 and 1,700 km (930 and 1,060 mi) away—where office buildings swayed with the tremor. Strong aftershocks, some exceeding 6 Ms, continued to hit the area up to several months after the main shock, causing further casualties and damage. The earthquake also caused the largest number of geohazards ever recorded, including about 200,000 landslides and more than 800 quake lakes distributed over an area of 110,000 km2 (42,000 sq mi).Over 69,000 people lost their lives in the quake, including 68,636 in Sichuan province. 374,176 were reported injured, with 18,222 listed as missing as of July 2008. The geohazards triggered by the earthquake are thought to be responsible for at least one third of the death toll. The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million. Approximately 15 million people lived in the affected area. It was the deadliest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people, and the strongest in the country since the 1950 Chayu earthquake, which registered at 8.5 on the Richter magnitude scale. It is the 18th deadliest earthquake of all time. On November 6, 2008, the central government announced that it would spend 1 trillion RMB (about US $146.5 billion) over the next three years to rebuild areas ravaged by the earthquake, as part of the Chinese economic stimulus program.
Dai Zhuang language | Wikipedia audio article
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Dai Zhuang is a Tai language spoken in Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China, in Yanshan, Wenshan, Maguan, Malipo, Guangnan counties. It is also spoken in Honghe Prefecture and Vietnam. The largest concentrations are in Wenshan (50% of total Zhuang population) and Yanshan (20% of total Zhuang population) counties (Johnson 2011b).
Yangtze River | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:09 1 Names
00:02:19 1.1 Chinese
00:03:12 1.1.1 iChang Jiang/i – Long River
00:05:48 1.1.2 iJinsha Jiang/i – Gold Sands River
00:06:59 1.1.3 Tongtian River
00:07:39 1.1.4 Tuotuo River
00:08:47 1.2 English
00:12:01 1.3 Tibetan
00:12:39 2 Geography
00:17:05 2.1 Image gallery
00:17:14 3 Characteristics
00:20:27 4 History
00:20:36 4.1 Geologic history
00:21:14 4.2 Early history
00:28:45 4.3 Age of steam
00:31:10 4.4 U.S. and French conflicts
00:34:19 4.5 Navigation on the upper river
00:41:33 4.6 Navy ships
00:46:56 5 Hydrology
00:47:05 5.1 Periodic floods
00:50:01 5.2 Degradation of the river
00:52:49 5.3 Contribution to ocean pollution
00:53:19 5.4 Reconnecting lakes
00:55:47 6 Major cities along the river
00:55:57 7 Crossings
00:58:43 8 Dams
00:59:30 9 Tributaries
01:00:52 10 Protected areas
01:01:11 11 Wildlife
01:01:32 11.1 Fish
01:06:58 11.2 Other animals
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The Yangtze or Yangzi (English: or ), which is 6,300 km (3,915 mi) long, is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. Its source is in the northern part of the Tibetan Plateau and it flows 6,300 km (3,900 mi) in a generally eastern direction to the East China Sea. It is the sixth-largest river by discharge volume in the world. Its drainage basin comprises one-fifth of the land area of China, and is home to nearly one-third of the country's population.The Yangtze has played a major role in the history, culture and economy of China. For thousands of years, the river has been used for water, irrigation, sanitation, transportation, industry, boundary-marking and war. The prosperous Yangtze River Delta generates as much as 20% of the PRC's GDP. The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the largest hydro-electric power station in the world. In mid-2014, the Chinese government announced it was building a multi-tier transport network, comprising railways, roads and airports, to create a new economic belt alongside the river.The Yangtze flows through a wide array of ecosystems and is habitat to several endemic and endangered species including the Chinese alligator, the narrow-ridged finless porpoise, the Chinese paddlefish, the (extinct) Yangtze River dolphin or baiji, and the Yangtze sturgeon. In recent years, the river has suffered from industrial pollution, plastic pollution, agricultural run-off, siltation, and loss of wetland and lakes, which exacerbates seasonal flooding. Some sections of the river are now protected as nature reserves. A stretch of the upstream Yangtze flowing through deep gorges in western Yunnan is part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.