Frank Hossack

This day, 14 October, in 1992, the National Copyright Administration of China announced that China had become the 93rd member state of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, entering effect in China the following...

This day, 13 October, in 2019, during President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Nepal, the two countries issued the “Joint Statement of the People’s Republic of China and Nepal”, elevating the relationship between the two countries to a strategic...

He'erbin's 1913 census, taken by the railway administration fifteen years after the railway camp that became the city was founded, counted 68,549 people of 53 nationalities speaking 45 languages, among them 34,313 Russians, 23,537 Chinese and 5,032 Jews. 哈尔滨一九一三年的人口普查由中东铁路管理局主持,距这座铁路营地成为城市只有十五年;普查共统计六万八千五百四十九人,来自五十三个民族,使用四十五种语言,其中俄国人三万四千三百一十三人,中国人二万三千五百三十七人,犹太人五千零三十二人,三者在统计中分列。 Before the...

When the Chinese Eastern Railway opened in 1903 it named a station Qiqihar, but built it 29 kilometres from the city, at Ang'angxi; the Heilongjiang authorities then built a light railway to join the two, which opened in 1909. 一九零三年中东铁路通车时,铁路当局设了一座叫"齐齐哈尔"的车站,却把它建在距城二十九公里的昂昂溪;黑龙江地方当局随后修了一条轻便铁路把两地连起来,一九零九年通车。 Qiqihar...

Jixi has a 19.9-kilometre crater named after it on the asteroid 253 Mathilde, one of 23 named for coalfields because the asteroid is dark and carbonaceous; by 1991 its mining bureau was China's second-largest coal production base. 鸡西有一座直径十九点九公里的撞击坑以它命名,位于小行星253(玛蒂尔德)上;这颗小行星又黑又富含碳,它的二十三座命名撞击坑都以煤田命名;到一九九一年,鸡西矿务局已成为中国第二大煤炭生产基地。 Jixi is named...

Hegang's mining chief told his men in 1946 that every extra shovel of coal was a grenade for the front, and by 2020 the city had lost almost 16 percent of its people in a decade. 鹤岗矿务局局长一九四六年对矿工们说,多出一锹煤炭就等于给前方送去一颗手榴弹;到二零二零年,这座城市的人口在十年间减少了将近百分之十六。 The first farmer arrived...

Shuangyashan takes its name from a pair of hills on its north side that look like ducks lying down, though the city, not the hills, is the newcomer: farmers found coal outcrops there in 1914, and the city was...

This day, 12 October, in 2021, President Xi Jinping attended the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kunming via video link and delivered a keynote speech entitled, “Jointly Building a Community for...