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Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 6 October

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This day, 6 October, in 1995, the Seventh International Anti-Corruption Conference opened in Beijing, with the theme of “Anti-corruption and Social Stability and Development”. More than 900 government officials, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, experts and professors from 89 countries and...
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Tianjin; the Emperor’s Ford that Became a City of Nine Concessions

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Tianjin is often described as the only ancient Chinese city with a precisely recorded founding date, 23 December 1404, when the Yongle Emperor ordered a garrison and walls built at a river crossing he had once forded while marching...
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Shijiazhuang; The City Where China’s Money Was Born

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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...
About Hebei

Tangshan; where China’s First Home-Built Locomotive Was Secretly Made from Scrap

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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...
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Qinhuangdao; the City Named for an Emperor, Its Ming Stele Thrown into the Sea

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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...
About Hebei

Handan; the City Behind More than 1,500 Chinese Idioms

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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...
About Hebei

Xingtai; the City whose 1966 Earthquakes Launched China’s Search for Quake Prediction

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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...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 5 October

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This day, 5 October, in 1961, China and Nepal signed a boundary treaty in Beijing, which came immediately into effect. Based on the China-Nepal Boundary Agreement of the previous year, and in accordance with the “Five Principles of Peaceful...
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About Me

Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host and voice-over artist who has worked in China for the past 32 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and The Times, appeared on the BBC and LBC, and been cited by CNN, China Daily and the New York Times, among many others.
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