Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival, is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays and official vacation as well. It consists of a period of celebrations of 15 days, starting on New Year's Day, celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, unless there is an intercalary eleventh or twelfth month in the lead-up to the New Year—in such a case, the New Year falls on the day of the third new moon after the solstice.
The Chinese New Year period terminates with the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the month, which is the last day of the festival. Knowing its celebration and holiday schedules will let you well prepared some events when staying in China.
Chinese people believe that Nian ("Nyehn") was a reptilian predator that could infiltrate houses silently like the infamous man-eating leopards of India. The Chinese soon learned that Nian was sensitive to loud noises, and they scared it away with explosions and fireworks and it become a tradition over years.
China's passenger traffic is expected to reach 2.5 billion this year during the Chinese Lunar New Year time, an increase of 7.7 percent from the previous year, an official from the National Development and Reform Commission said. This year the Spring Festival will have a national holiday of more than a week.
Every year,  many ministries of China including the NDRC held a meeting yesterday to discuss and arrange the New Year, or Spring Festival, transportation and related issues. They predicted at the meeting that 2.5 billion people in total will travel by railway, waterway, aircraft and road transportation during the holidays.
Wuxi city of Jiangsu Province is campaigning to start a tobacco-free program to prevent spreading threats of passive smoking, especially to pregnant women and children, health officials and experts said Monday.
Other cities joining the program include Shanghai, Ningbo, Changsha, Luoyang, Tangshan and Qingdao. Experts and representatives of cities gathered in Beijing Monday for a three-day workshop to present their plans for the program.
Smoke-free means no smoking is allowed in any indoor area at any time, without exception.
As the new year gets underway and the Spring Festival approaches, many travelers are considering where to spend their time off in the months to come. As airlines continue to cut prices and travel bureaus issue promotional activities in an attempt to lure pleasure-seeking holiday-makers, the Global Times has waded through the vast array of options to arrive at the Top 5 Hot Destinations in China for 2010.
When living or traveling in China, it is necessary to haggle/bargain with vendors or shopkeepers to get a good deal. There are a few rules you need to keep in mind to help you haggle effectively in this country, especially with the street vendors and peddlers who sell you their souvenirs and crafts. Haggling/bargaining is useful in many places such as in traveling locations or walking streets, shops or supermarkets, stores or wet markets or night markets, even in some of department stores. Whenever you don’t see a label with an item you want to buy, you know you could haggle for a fair deal.
Premier Dalton McGuinty of Province of Ontario issued the following statement about Canada gaining Approved Destination Status with China during the visit of Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper. Ontario and Jiangsu were signed an agreement on 2005 to strength cooperation on environmental protection and management. Ontario has also solid relationship with Shanghai."On behalf of all Ontarians, I want to thank China for extending Approved Destination Status to Canada. This will open the door to increased tourism between Ontario and China, which will both strengthen our economy and help deepen our relationship with the Chinese people ", proclaims the premier.
Shanghai, one of Jiangsu's most closed neighbor, China's economic engine, has got the green light to go for its cooperation with Disney. China's economic planning agency has formally approved a plan to build a Disney theme park in Shanghai, giving the city a new showcase following next year's World Expo.The National Development and Reform Commission said in a notice Tuesday that the long-awaited park would be built, as expected, in Shanghai's eastern Pudong district.
Kunqu, also known as Kunju, Kun opera or Kunqu Opera, is one of the oldest extant forms of Chinese opera. It evolved from the Kunshan melody, and dominated Chinese theatre from the 16th to the 18th centuries.The opera' name suggests that it originates in Kunshan of Jiangsu Province. Originally called "Kunshan Accent" or abbreviated as "Kun Accent", it has also been called "Kunqu Opera" since the Qing Dynasty. The accompanying musical instrument in Kunqu Opera is mainly bamboo flute, with Chinese wind pipe, clarionet, Chinese clarinet, and ballon guitar, lute, etc (percussion instruments are available) as complements.
Wuxi's Suntech Power Holdings (STP) is no newcomer to the U.S. Last May, President Barack Obama toured the U.S.'s largest solar panel installation at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. There, row upon row of shiny black Suntech panels account for about a third of the 14-megawatt solar farm.Suntech landed that project the same way it has raced to the top of the fast-growing global solar market: by focusing on price and scale. Now the world's largest supplier of solar panels is boosting its stake in the U.S. market.
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