AFTERSHOCK CHINA
Are you resistant? You never crying? Now is the time to test yourself... And if you do not crying... It means you are not human and you have no soul...This is the most powerful Chinese drama in the last 20 years..It took 20 years to produce this movie.English, Romanian and Indonesian subtitles...
Chinese 唐山大地震
Mandarin Tángshān Dà Dìzhèn
Directed by Feng Xiaogang
Produced by Huayi Brothers
Screenplay by Su Xiaowei
Story by Zhang Ling
Starring Zhang Zifeng
Xu Fan
Zhang Jingchu
Chen Daoming
Lu Yi
Zhang Guoqiang
Li Chen
Music by Wang Liguang
Cinematography Lü Yue
Edited by Xiao Yang
Distributed by Huayi Brothers
Release date
22 July 2010
Running time
135 minutes
Country China
Language Chinese
Budget less than $25 million
Box office 665 million yuan (US$108 million)
Shijiazhuang Tiedao University (flash mob) | 石家庄铁道大学
Shijiazhuang Tiedao University (STDU 石家庄铁道大学) was established in 1950, the predecessor of Chinese People’s Liberation Army Railway Engineering Institute. The university is located in Shijiazhuang city, the capital of Heibei province. It only takes one hour by high-speed train to travel from Shijiazhuang to Beijing. STDU is a technical university with the distinctive characteristic of applied engineering, and offers a wide range of disciplines covering science, management, economics, arts and social sciences. It has been listed as one of the national key universities since 1979 and now it is one of the top universities in Hebei Province.For more information,visit
OWN Chongqing-Seattle Sister City Exchange, July 2013
In July 2013, OneWorld Now! (OWN) had the pleasure of hosting 20 visiting high school students from Chongqing, China. A major metropolis located on the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers in southwest China, Chongqing has been a Sister City of Seattle since 1983. In the summer of 2012, Chongqing graciously hosted several OWN exchange students from Seattle.
For the first week of their visit, the Chinese students participated in OWN's annual Summer Language Camp at Seattle Pacific University. For the second week, OWN families and supporters graciously hosted our Chinese guests as home stay families. During their stay, the students toured many of the classic sites in Seattle, including the Ballard salmon locks, Pike Place Market, the University of Washington campus, houseboats on Lake Union, the Starbucks Corporate Headquarters, and the Experience Music Project. The students also had the opportunity to meet with Mayor Mike McGinn at Seattle City Hall.
Dr. Kotnis documentary by Chinese TV《红色追梦人》医士之光 柯棣华医生
One of the greatest Indian Hero in Chinese history, Dr. Kotnis, who dedicated his life to serve Chinese soldiers during 1939. Hallmark of India China friendship. I was really lucky enough to have a chance to play the role of Dr. Kotnis. During filming I had to learn a lot about his life, which inspired me to be a better person and to serve with utmost dedication, selflessness, without any hatred and prejudice. Millions of salute to his meritorious work and God bless his soul.
China jets another fly over First Island Chain Japanese on Alert on Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day
China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is conducting an air-and-sea exercise into Pacific waters during the early part of December, with ships and aircraft transiting through international waters south of Japan's Okinawa.
A Chinese GX-8 SIGINT aircraft photographed over the East China Sea by Japanese aircraft on 6 December 2014. (Japan Air Self-Defense Force)
A Chinese GX-8 SIGINT aircraft photographed over the East China Sea by Japanese aircraft on 6 December 2014. (Japan Air Self-Defense Force)
Japan's Ministry of Defense said in a statement that on 4 December Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) ships and Lockheed P-3C Orions had escorted a PLAN flotilla of five ships through the Miyako Strait.
The PLAN flotilla comprised Type 052 Luhu-class destroyer Harbin (112), Type 051C Luzhou-class destroyer Shijiazhuang (116) and the Type 054A Jiangkai II-class frigates Yantai (538) and Yancheng (546). These were supported by the Type 903 Fuchi-class replenishment ship Taihu (889). All ships are assigned to the PLAN's North Sea Fleet based at Qingdao.
The air component of the exercise started on 6 December, with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) intercepting a variety of PLAN aircraft headed out into the Pacific, also via international airspace over the Miyako Strait, on two consecutive days.
On both occasions, these included a pair of Shaanxi Y-8J maritime airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft, a Shaanxi GX-8 electronic intelligence (ELINT) gathering platform, and a pair of Xian H-6G bombers. The Y-8J and GX-8 carried codes indicating they were assigned to the PLAN's Laiyang-based 2nd Division, while the H-6s carried serial numbers indicating it belonged to the PLAN's 17th Air Regiment, East Sea Fleet, based at Jiangsu-Benniu, west of Shanghai.
The Y-8Js photographed by the JASDF sported a semi-spherical dome, likely for SATCOM, on its top fuselage. This is the first time this variant has been seen with this dome, although it is fitted onto several variants of China's special mission Y-8/Y-9s.
China jets another fly over the first Island Chain Japanese on Alert before Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day,for more information about china world news visit site at as well as business website at
Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang, formerly romanized Shihkiachwang, is the capital and largest city of North China's Hebei Province. Administratively a prefecture-level city, it is about 263 kilometres southwest of Beijing, and it administers 8 districts, 2 county-level cities, and 12 counties.
At the 2013 census, it had a total population of 12,763,700, with 4,303,700 in the central area comprising the 7 districts and the county of Zhengding largely conurbated with the Shijiazhuang metropolitan area as urbanization continues to proliferate. Shijiazhuang's total population ranked twelfth in mainland China.
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Tiananmen Square - Army marching about.. Mao Zedong Portrait - China Museum
Norman Bethune Perspectives on a Canadian Hero - Military History Night April 9 2014:
Canadian authors Sharon and Roderick Stewart tell the story of Dr Norman Bethune and offer differing views on his contribution to Canadian history.
Dr. Kotnis Birth Century Meeting 13-11-2010
Aruna & Hari Sharma in Xibaipo Mao Zedong Museum, Shijiazhuang, May 28, 2013
डॉ द्वारकानाथ कोटणीस यांच्यासंदर्भातील संकेत स्थळाचे उद्घाटन
डॉ द्वारकानाथ कोटणीस यांच्यासंदर्भातील संकेत स्थळाचे उद्घाटन
Dr Dwarakadas Kotnis informative website launched
News---Dripping Cliff in Hebei Province
In Chicheng County of Hebei Province there is a huge rock called Dripping Cliff that has been attracting people's attention. The reason it got its name the Dripping Cliff is because the cave inside the cliff drips water every day and for some reason in the winter it doesn't freeze. This rock has been living a nice quiet life for centuries however recently the government here has been trying to promote this place as a new scenic destination.
Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom Ceremony Honoring Cardinal Joseph Zen
Remarks of Cardinal Joseph Zen
A quote from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Sovereign Lord is in me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives, to release from darkness for the prisoners.”
Now, in human history, there were always the poor, the prisoners, the oppressed. The Industrial Revolution was unfortunately accompanied by an upsurge of wide capitalism. The capitalists in possession of the means of production exploited the proletariat and kept them under slavery.
Karl Marx, the prophet, came to preach the liberation through class struggle. That means bloody revolution. The medicine was worse than illness. Violence was never a solution to any problem. The problem is in human hearts. Selfishness, greed. Without a loving heart, any system would become inhuman. The communists preach equality, they preach brotherhood, but they destroyed the foundation of equality and brotherhood, because that foundation is in our human dignity, having its origin from our common Father in Heaven.
All the communist countries, to our knowledge, and before they abandoned Marxism, they achieved only equal poverty for everybody. Their main export are human beings. Fleeing the communist heaven.
I have not suffered directly, personally from the communists. I came to Hong Kong in 1948 to join the Salesian Society, and the communists took power only in 1949, the following year. My family suffered, as all families suffered under that inhuman system. My brother-in-law, husband of my elder sister, a most sweet person, one day they came to arrest him without saying a word, without saying of which crime he was accused. They sent him to work for the construction or repair of railway. They shaved his head, working under the sun, and then after a couple of months they released him and sent him back home. Again, without any explanation.
The so-called dictatorship of the proletariat, which is supposed to be provisional, according to Marx, turned out to be the communist empire. I had [the] opportunity to visit my relatives in Shanghai in ’74; that is, before the end of [the] Cultural Revolution. We did not know why they opened the door ajar for Hong Kong people who would dare to go in. It was beyond imagination. The communist paradise was a concentration camp. All allegiance disappeared. The churches were either closed down or turned into factories or towns or for other users.
My parish church became a people’s club, where people could get simple food and recreational facilities. With the open party seat, things were very different. So I applied to be allowed to teach in the seminaries in Shanghai in 1984. The permission came in late 1988. Right after the Tiananmen Square incident, I went in, when everybody was getting out of China. So, they treated me very well, very kindly. And later, they invited me also to teach in other seminaries; in Wuhan, in Xi’an, Shijiazhuang, Beijing, and Shenyang. They treated me very kindly, but I could see how they mistreat our people in the church in China. Harassment to those underground. The underground people are people who at the very beginning of the regime went into prison and labor camps, and then they came out by that time. And again, I realized that they have no respect, even for the bishops in the official church. Many of them survived also long term in prison or labor camp.
Today, very little remains of the true Marxism, but the atheist persecutor dictatorship remains there. And you know, the recent tightening of control of all religion in China. You must also know the situation in Hong Kong. Of the promised high degree of autonomy, very little remains. We are soon to become just one of the cities in China. So visit Hong Kong before it’s too late.
I am here to receive, gratefully, the medal; not in my honor, because I have almost paid nothing for my freedom, but for all those who suffered really for the freedom in China and in Hong Kong. I receive the medal for all those who really deserve it, but they cannot come here to accept it. I want to remember all those heroes who offered their life for the cause of human dignity and freedom. We don’t mourn them, because they are in God’s bosom in eternal bliss. And we understand that those who try to harm their dignity, they only humiliated and degraded themselves.
I want to remember many of those heroes who are suffering in this moment in China or in Hong Kong, for voicing their claim for respect of their dignity, for freedom, and for democracy. Those well known and those anonymous heroes. May my presence here today confirm your noble work in the efforts to support all those people and may our presence here today and our prayer every day bring them comfort and strength. May god bless you all.
Hebei | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:44 1 History
00:07:56 2 Geography
00:09:16 2.1 Climate
00:09:51 3 Administrative divisions
00:10:42 3.1 Urban areas
00:10:51 4 Politics
00:11:25 5 Economy
00:13:09 5.1 Economic and technological development zones
00:13:25 6 Demographics
00:14:44 6.1 Religion
00:16:52 7 Culture
00:18:36 8 Notable individuals
00:19:12 9 Media
00:19:24 10 Transportation
00:21:36 11 Tourism
00:23:56 12 Sports
00:24:30 13 Education
00:27:41 14 See also
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Hebei (河北; alternately Hopeh) is a province of China in the North China region. The modern province was established in 1911 as Chihli Province (Zhili Province). Its capital and largest city is Shijiazhuang. Its one-character abbreviation is 冀 (Jì), named after Ji Province, a Han dynasty province (zhou) that included what is now southern Hebei. The name Hebei literally means north of the river, referring to its location entirely to the north of the Yellow River.The modern province Chili Province was formed in 1911, when the central government dissolved the central governed area of Chihli, which means Directly Ruled (by the Imperial Court) until it was renamed as Hebei in 1928. A common alternate name for Hebei is Yānzhào (燕趙), after the state of Yan and state of Zhao that existed here during the Warring States period of early Chinese history.
Beijing and Tianjin Municipalities, which border each other, were carved out of Hebei. The province borders Liaoning to the northeast, Inner Mongolia to the north, Shanxi to the west, Henan to the south, and Shandong to the southeast. Bohai Bay of the Bohai Sea is to the east. A small part of Hebei, Sanhe Exclave, consisting of Sanhe, Dachang Hui Autonomous County, and Xianghe County, an exclave disjointed from the rest of the province, is wedged between the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin.
With a population of over 74 million people, Hebei is China's sixth most populous province. The Han majority comprise 96% of the population, followed by a minority of Manchu, Hui and Mongol peoples.
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Hebei
00:01:27 1 History
00:07:41 2 Geography
00:08:58 2.1 Climate
00:09:33 3 Administrative divisions
00:10:16 3.1 Urban areas
00:10:25 4 Politics
00:10:58 5 Economy
00:12:41 5.1 Economic and technological development zones
00:12:58 6 Demographics
00:14:17 6.1 Religion
00:16:26 7 Culture
00:18:11 8 Notable individuals
00:18:47 9 Media
00:18:59 10 Transportation
00:21:11 11 Tourism
00:23:32 12 Sports
00:24:06 13 Education
00:27:18 14 See also
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- Socrates
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Hebei (河北; formerly romanised as Hopeh) is a province of China in the North China region. The modern province was established in 1911 as Zhili Province or Chihli Province. Its one-character abbreviation is 冀 (Jì), named after Ji Province, a Han dynasty province (zhou) that included what is now southern Hebei. The name Hebei literally means north of the river, referring to its location entirely to the north of the Yellow River.The modern province Chili Province was formed in 1911 after the central government dissolved the central governed area of Chihli, which means Directly Ruled (by the Imperial Court) until it was renamed as Hebei in 1928.
Beijing and Tianjin Municipalities, which border each other, were carved out of Hebei. The province borders Liaoning to the northeast, Inner Mongolia to the north, Shanxi to the west, Henan to the south, and Shandong to the southeast. Bohai Bay of the Yellow Sea is to the east. A small part of Hebei, Sanhe Exclave, consisting of Sanhe, Dachang Hui Autonomous County, and Xianghe County, an exclave disjointed from the rest of the province, is wedged between the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin.
A common alternate name for Hebei is Yānzhào (燕趙), after the state of Yan and state of Zhao that existed here during the Warring States period of early Chinese history.
xibaipo
Xibaipo (西柏坡) is a village located 80 km. northwest of Shijazhuang, Hebei Province. Here the CCP established its base between 1947-1948 after moving out of Yan'an. From Xibaipo, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De led the military struggle against the Guomindang (Kuomintang).
Xibaipo was the last rural command post of the Party before liberating all of China. Here, the National Land Conference was convened. Moreover, the three decisive campaigns against the Nationalist forces were masterminded: the Liaohsi-Shenyang Campaign (12 September-2 November 1948), the Huai-Hai Campaign (or Battle of Xubang, 1948-1949) and the Peiping [Beijing]-Tientsin [Tianjin] Campaign (29 November 1948-31 January 1949).
Half Moon Climbs Up The Sky
Performed as part of a joint concert with the PLA (Navy) Band at the National Radio and Television Centre Nanchang, China on 23 October 2011
Carlotta Ferrari — Preludio, aria e fuga “in minimis” (2017) for organ
Carlotta Ferrari (b. 1975) — Preludio, aria e fuga “in minimis” (2017) for organ
Carson Cooman, organ
Carlotta Ferrari (b. 1975) is an Italian composer. Educated at the Conservatory in Milan, she has composed in many genres, developing a personal language that is concerned with the blend of past and present. Her compositions have been performed frequently around the world. Ferrari’s music appears on several CD recordings, including five all-Ferrari organ CDs: three recorded by Carson Cooman (2014/16) and two by Peter Clark (2015/16). She served as chair of music composition at Hebei Normal University in Shijiazhuang, China and is currently professor of music composition at the European School of Economics in Florence, Italy.