There is an old saying meaning "There is no spectator in life" in Ethiopia, the "Roof of Africa". It suggests that everyone has their own responsibilities and obligations in life.
Launched in the spring of 1957, the China Import and Export Fair, popularly known as the Canton Fair, is the earliest comprehensive international trade expo held in China. It also boasts the largest scale, widest variety of commodities, highest business turnover and highest buyer attendance from the broadest range of countries.
Mexico, a land of magic and fantasy, has a long history that is recorded in the ancient ruins of its Maya and Aztec civilizations. A vast realm full of cactus-dotted deserts and extending to the blue sea, it was once known as a country floating on a sea of oil. Mexico boasts a wealth of oil and gas reserves, its most important natural resources.
Giza Province in central Egypt used to reel under power outages in the past. "We didn't expect such dire electricity shortage when we first opened our restaurant here," Wan, the manager of a Chinese restaurant, said. "There would be circuit breaks, particularly in peak summer, when electric appliances like the air conditioner, fridge, kitchen exhaust fan and oven were all working together."
San Juan de Marcona, lying between the Pacific Ocean and the Nazca Desert on the southwest coast of Peru, was once a small fishing town. Its development into a modern city with a growing economy began with a Chinese company bringing in investment two decades ago.
Zyrardow is a typical industrial city in central Poland, not far from the birthplace of the great Polish composer Frederic Chopin and only 50 kilometers away from the capital Warsaw.
January 18, 2017, London. The sky cleared after days of drizzle and the sun shone brightly in a blue sky.
They are found everywhere – in Johannesburg, the economic capital of South Africa; in Cape Town, home to the famous Cape of Good Hope; in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa. The billboards of Hisense stand tall by airports and along highways in the major cities of South Africa.
A memorable experience awaited Weng Mingzhao, board chair of the Long Jiang Industrial Park Development Co. Ltd., when he arrived in Tien Giang Province in southern Vietnam 12 years ago.
Liane, a mother of five, was on the beach, enjoying the refreshing sea breeze that blew gently over the Comoros Islands, carrying the fragrance of climbing lang-lang. She was wearing a short skirt, something that was unimaginable till recently.
Though Caribbean island nation Jamaica is a well-known tourist destination, for years the mountainous terrain at the center of the island, complicated geological conditions and poorly-maintained roads hampered its north-south traffic. Every year in the rainy season there were floods, disrupting traffic and impeding economic development.
In April 2020, when the novel coronavirus epidemic was raging through Italy, a music video featuring Italian and Chinese singers singing "together" became an online sensation. Twelve famous Italian singers, confined to their home due to the epidemic, sang the famous aria "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's opera Turandot on their respective balconies.
The No. 1 National Highway in the Republic of the Congo is a four-lane, two-way asphalt road running east-west. The 536-kilometer highway, full of fast traffic, links Pointe-Noire, the country's economic center and second largest city on the Atlantic coast, and Brazzaville, the capital.
On the evening of July 16, 2019, a concert titled "China and Malaysia: Twin Industrial Parks, Common Prosperity" was held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (KLCC) in the Malaysian capital.
The city of Kribi in Cameroon is located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, known as the Blue Coast. The scenery here is beautiful, with blue waves, coconut groves and a silver beach full of breeze and birdsong. The fishing boats on the far coastline are part of the scenery, showing the harmony between man and nature.
At an agricultural exhibition in Samoa, the China booth offered visitors plates of tomatoes, pumpkins, lemons and even watermelons,a rarity for the locals.
Latvian capital Riga is a coastal city known as the "heart of the Baltic States". Its ice-free port and strategic geographical location have made it a trade hub that also boasts the best-preserved historical monuments in Europe, beautiful landscapes and great red wines.
Li Lin has not seen the sun for days as it is winter at the site of the Yamal liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Sabetta, where he works. In winter, the sun doesn't rise for over two months in the Arctic Circle, and Sabetta is such a town in northern Russia, 400 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle.
The Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company (YASREF), based in Saudi Arabia on the coast of the Red Sea, is among the world's leading refineries, with a daily capacity of 400,000 barrels of crude oil, the equivalent of an annual capacity of 20 million tons.
The seven hydropower dams on the Nam Ou River in northern Laos can be likened to a string of seven dazzling pearls, which have brought vitality to the once silent mountain valley.
Early in 140 BC and again in 119 BC, during the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian, a royal envoy and explorer extraordinaire, went on two remarkable journeys. He started from Chang'an, an ancient city in northwest China that was the capital of the dynasty, exploring the route from the East to the West.
In a mud building in the Sahara Village in Côte d'Ivoire, a group of engineers were working intently to usher in a magical connectivity.
The sparkling blue Danube that flows serenely across Hungarian capital Budapest, also known as the Pearl of the Danube, has made the country accessible from all directions and witnessed Budapest undergo stupendous changes.
When Isaac's Chinese colleague Yang Shuai showed him a photograph of the Cholistan Desert on his mobile phone, the sight of the carpet of green grass growing in the barren desert left the Pakistani engineer incredulous.
There is an old saying meaning "There is no spectator in life" in Ethiopia, the "Roof of Africa". It suggests that everyone has their own responsibilities and obligations in life.
Launched in the spring of 1957, the China Import and Export Fair, popularly known as the Canton Fair, is the earliest comprehensive international trade expo held in China. It also boasts the largest scale, widest variety of commodities, highest business turnover and highest buyer attendance from the broadest range of countries.
Mexico, a land of magic and fantasy, has a long history that is recorded in the ancient ruins of its Maya and Aztec civilizations. A vast realm full of cactus-dotted deserts and extending to the blue sea, it was once known as a country floating on a sea of oil. Mexico boasts a wealth of oil and gas reserves, its most important natural resources.
Giza Province in central Egypt used to reel under power outages in the past. "We didn't expect such dire electricity shortage when we first opened our restaurant here," Wan, the manager of a Chinese restaurant, said. "There would be circuit breaks, particularly in peak summer, when electric appliances like the air conditioner, fridge, kitchen exhaust fan and oven were all working together."
San Juan de Marcona, lying between the Pacific Ocean and the Nazca Desert on the southwest coast of Peru, was once a small fishing town. Its development into a modern city with a growing economy began with a Chinese company bringing in investment two decades ago.
Zyrardow is a typical industrial city in central Poland, not far from the birthplace of the great Polish composer Frederic Chopin and only 50 kilometers away from the capital Warsaw.
January 18, 2017, London. The sky cleared after days of drizzle and the sun shone brightly in a blue sky.
They are found everywhere – in Johannesburg, the economic capital of South Africa; in Cape Town, home to the famous Cape of Good Hope; in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa. The billboards of Hisense stand tall by airports and along highways in the major cities of South Africa.
A memorable experience awaited Weng Mingzhao, board chair of the Long Jiang Industrial Park Development Co. Ltd., when he arrived in Tien Giang Province in southern Vietnam 12 years ago.
Liane, a mother of five, was on the beach, enjoying the refreshing sea breeze that blew gently over the Comoros Islands, carrying the fragrance of climbing lang-lang. She was wearing a short skirt, something that was unimaginable till recently.
Though Caribbean island nation Jamaica is a well-known tourist destination, for years the mountainous terrain at the center of the island, complicated geological conditions and poorly-maintained roads hampered its north-south traffic. Every year in the rainy season there were floods, disrupting traffic and impeding economic development.
In April 2020, when the novel coronavirus epidemic was raging through Italy, a music video featuring Italian and Chinese singers singing "together" became an online sensation. Twelve famous Italian singers, confined to their home due to the epidemic, sang the famous aria "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's opera Turandot on their respective balconies.
The No. 1 National Highway in the Republic of the Congo is a four-lane, two-way asphalt road running east-west. The 536-kilometer highway, full of fast traffic, links Pointe-Noire, the country's economic center and second largest city on the Atlantic coast, and Brazzaville, the capital.
On the evening of July 16, 2019, a concert titled "China and Malaysia: Twin Industrial Parks, Common Prosperity" was held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (KLCC) in the Malaysian capital.
The city of Kribi in Cameroon is located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, known as the Blue Coast. The scenery here is beautiful, with blue waves, coconut groves and a silver beach full of breeze and birdsong. The fishing boats on the far coastline are part of the scenery, showing the harmony between man and nature.
At an agricultural exhibition in Samoa, the China booth offered visitors plates of tomatoes, pumpkins, lemons and even watermelons,a rarity for the locals.
Latvian capital Riga is a coastal city known as the "heart of the Baltic States". Its ice-free port and strategic geographical location have made it a trade hub that also boasts the best-preserved historical monuments in Europe, beautiful landscapes and great red wines.
Li Lin has not seen the sun for days as it is winter at the site of the Yamal liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Sabetta, where he works. In winter, the sun doesn't rise for over two months in the Arctic Circle, and Sabetta is such a town in northern Russia, 400 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle.
The Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company (YASREF), based in Saudi Arabia on the coast of the Red Sea, is among the world's leading refineries, with a daily capacity of 400,000 barrels of crude oil, the equivalent of an annual capacity of 20 million tons.
The seven hydropower dams on the Nam Ou River in northern Laos can be likened to a string of seven dazzling pearls, which have brought vitality to the once silent mountain valley.
Early in 140 BC and again in 119 BC, during the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian, a royal envoy and explorer extraordinaire, went on two remarkable journeys. He started from Chang'an, an ancient city in northwest China that was the capital of the dynasty, exploring the route from the East to the West.
In a mud building in the Sahara Village in Côte d'Ivoire, a group of engineers were working intently to usher in a magical connectivity.
The sparkling blue Danube that flows serenely across Hungarian capital Budapest, also known as the Pearl of the Danube, has made the country accessible from all directions and witnessed Budapest undergo stupendous changes.
When Isaac's Chinese colleague Yang Shuai showed him a photograph of the Cholistan Desert on his mobile phone, the sight of the carpet of green grass growing in the barren desert left the Pakistani engineer incredulous.
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