Three wartime banks, the North China Bank, the Beihai Bank and the Northwest Farmers Bank, merged in Shijiazhuang on 1 December 1948 to form the People's Bank of China, which issued the first notes of what would become the renminbi that same day.
一九四八年十二月一日，华北银行、北海银行与西北农民银行三家战时银行在石家庄合并，组建中国人民银行；同日，这家银行发行了后来被称为人民币的第一套钞票。
The North...
Mules pulled the coal wagons on China's first standard-gauge railway at Tangshan in 1881, because the imperial court had approved it only on condition that no locomotive would run on it, and workers were secretly building one from scrap.
一八八一年,唐山修建的这条中国第一条标准轨距铁路上,拉煤车厢靠骡马牵引,因为朝廷批准修路的条件是不得行驶机车;而与此同时,工匠们正用废料偷偷制造一台机车。
The line, 9.7 kilometres long and...
The Ming dynasty stele recording where the First Emperor of Qin sought immortality stood on Qinhuangdao's shore for nearly 500 years, until it was smashed in 1966, early in the Cultural Revolution, and thrown into the sea; fragments were recovered in the late 1980s.
记载秦始皇求仙入海之处的明代石碑,在秦皇岛的海岸边矗立了近五百年,一九六六年"文化大革命"初期被砸碎并推入大海,直到二十世纪八十年代末,残片才被打捞上岸。
The...
Handan gave the Chinese language its idiom for imitating others so badly that you lose your own skills, after a young man from the state of Yan went there to learn the local walk and had to crawl home.
邯郸为汉语贡献了一条成语,用来形容盲目模仿他人、反而丢掉自己本领的人:相传燕国一名少年前往邯郸学习当地人走路的姿态,结果连自己原来的走法也忘了,只好爬着回家。
The same city produced the idiom...
Five earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more struck the Xingtai region in just 21 days in March 1966, the first destructive quakes to hit a densely populated part of China since 1949, killing 8,064 people and injuring about 38,000.
一九六六年三月,短短二十一天之内,邢台地区接连发生五次六级以上地震,这是自一九四九年以来,中国人口稠密地区遭遇的第一次破坏性大地震,造成八千零六十四人死亡、约三万八千人受伤。
The first, of magnitude 6.8, struck...
Mongol troops took the city then called Baozhou in 1213, burned and slaughtered for three days and left it a ruin, until the general Zhang Rou, a former Jin commander who had joined the Mongols, rebuilt it in 1227.
一二一三年,蒙古军攻陷当时名为保州的这座城市,焚烧屠戮长达三天,将其变成一片废墟;直到一二二七年,曾为金将、后归降蒙古的将领张柔,才重建了这座城池。
After rebuilding it, Zhang Rou laid...
Europeans knew this city as Kalgan until the mid-20th century, from a Mongolian word meaning a gate in a barrier; it was the Great Wall gate where camel caravans loaded with tea began their long journey north to Russia.
直到二十世纪中叶,欧洲人仍称这座城市为"喀拉干",这一名称源自蒙古语中意为"屏障之门"的词汇;这里是长城上的一道关口,满载茶叶的骆驼商队正是从此出发,踏上北往俄罗斯的漫长旅程。
Its Chinese name, Zhangjiakou, traces back...
Sweden won an eighth women's bandy world title in Chengde in January 2018, on naturally frozen lake ice inside a UNESCO World Heritage palace garden, at a tournament where organisers had aimed to attract twelve nations and eight took part.
二零一八年一月,瑞典队在承德夺得第八个女子班迪球世界冠军,比赛在联合国教科文组织世界遗产所在的皇家园林内、一片天然结冰的湖面上进行;组委会原本希望吸引十二个国家参赛,最终只有八支球队到场。
The first bandy match ever...
Craftsmen cast Cangzhou's great iron lion in 953, during the Later Zhou dynasty, covering its hollow belly with text from the Diamond Sutra. Why they made it remains uncertain; one enduring local tradition holds that the lion, later known as the Roar that Quells...
Two thousand soldiers from eight nations, trying to reach Beijing by train in June 1900, found their track torn up again and again by Boxer fighters; at Langfang, Qing troops including Dong Fuxiang's Gansu forces joined them, and the combined force drove the expedition...
Canadian doctor Tillson Harrison first delivered badly needed medical supplies to the Handan International Peace Hospital in September 1946. Four months later, he set out from Shanghai with another convoy through Nationalist-controlled territory; a journey that should have taken three days took 14, and...
