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Science & Tech
On a bend of the Min River) about an hour outside Chengdu, a low concrete and stone dike angles into the current, dividing the river cleanly in two. There is no dam. The water does not back up behind it.
Places
Wuhan is not one city.
Places
In the rice-terrace foothills around Kaili, in southeast Guizhou, more than four hundred wooden saemh — drum towers — still stand in the villages of the Hmong (also called Miao) communities.
People
Yung Wing — who graduated from Yale College in 1854 as the first Chinese student to receive a degree from a Western university — spent his life trying to bring Western education back to China.
Culture
The first Chinese takeaway in Britain — the ChangMama in Liverpool — opened in 1958, and the British Chinese takeaway tradition that became a British institution was invented by Hong Kong Cantonese immigrants.
History
The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States — completed at Promontory Summit, Utah on 10 May 1869 — was built largely by Chinese workers, who made up roughly 90 percent of the Central Pacific Railroad‘s workforce at the peak of construction.
Places
The Limehouse district of east London was the site of Britain‘s first Chinese community from the 1880s to the 1960s, with a peak population of roughly 1,200 in the 1930s.
History
A Jewish community existed at Kaifeng — the Northern Song capital — for roughly 700 years, from the late Tang period until the late Qing period.
Science & Tech
When a Y-20 took off from Tianjin on 13 March 2020, bound for Rome with nine tonnes of masks and ventilators, it was the largest Chinese-built aircraft to land in Europe since a 1960s-era Xian H-6 bomber diverted to a Soviet airfield.
Science & Tech
BGI — the Beijing Genomics Institute — was the world’s largest genome sequencing centre for most of the 2010s, with annual capacity of more than 100,000 whole human genomes and a project portfolio including the International HapMap Project, the 1000 Genomes Project, and the Earth BioGenome Project.
Economy
The Qinghai–Tibet plateau holds some of the world’s largest lithium reserves in the form of brine pools — salt lakes where dissolved lithium lies just below the surface.
Economy
CRRC — the Chinese state rail-equipment manufacturer — is the world’s largest train maker, producing roughly half of all the world’s locomotives and electric multiple units in any given year.
