Hukou Waterfall in Yan'an
Hukou Waterfall locates in Yichuan county, Yan'an city. It is the second biggest waterfall in China and the biggest yellow waterfall on earth.
Yellow River's Largest Waterfall to Receive Tourist Flow Peak
The scenic Hukou Waterfall, the largest waterfall on China’s Yellow River, is expected to receive a record number of 140,000 tourists in the following three days of the week-long National Day holiday.
The waterfall, which is located on the border of Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces, has been greatly swollen by monsoon rains during the Golden Week, attracting throngs of holidaymakers from across China to visit.
The local tourism administration said the waterfall was visited by 136,000 tourists during last year's Golden Week. As the daily tourist visits had already surged to 15,000 people as of Thursday, the administration has predicted a record 140,000 visits this year.
Local authorities in Yichuan County of northwest China's Shaanxi Province have dispatched extra police officers to maintain traffic order and ensure safety at the scenic spot .
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China's 2nd-largest Hydropower Station Wins Global Recognition
China's Jinsha River Xiluodu Hydropower Station, the second largest in the country, has received global recognition after the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) awarded the station as a FIDIC Outstanding Project of the Year last year.
The station which straddles between Yongshan County of Yunnan Province and Leibo County of Sichuan Province in southwest China was the only hydroelectric project among the 21 award-winners of the year 2016.
Liao Jianxin, an engineering director with the project's contractor, China Three Gorges Corporation, said the intelligent management system of the dam won the approval of the judging team.
The digital dam, in a nutshell, consists of the thermometer, strain gauge and other detecting equipment in the concrete of the dam. The whole construction process was monitored by these equipment, which gives a real-time account of the stress state and condition of the dam for the convenience of adjustment, said Liao.
One of the strengths of the smart system is that it helps prevent thermal cracking, a common thermal effect on concrete, in the dam.
The 6.8 million cubic meters of concrete in the dam has no thermal cracking. As far as we know, no other dam in the world can avoid such cracking, said Liao.
Built in the spirit of sustainable development, the station makes maximum use of the mountains on both sides of the river to house its workshops, underground power stations and transportation tunnels.
A massive hydraulic generator set highlights the superior coordination of various different sectors of the station, said director Ran Yichuan, who demonstrated the smooth operational quality of the generator by balancing a coin upright on the ground.
The rotating part of the hydraulic generator set has a weight of over 2,000 tons. The stability of such a heavy rotating unit can be demonstrated in this experiment: As you can see, the small coin is only five meters above the rotating part, and it stands perfectly still. So the hydraulic generator set was very well installed. In more professional terms, the vibration part and throw are exquisite, said Ran.
With 18 large generators and a total capacity of 13.86 gigawatts, the Xiluodu station is the world's third-largest project behind the Three Gorges Dam in central China's Hubei Province and Brazil's Itaipu hydroelectric dam.
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Kamala Harris Hopes You'll Forget Her Record as a Drug Warrior & Draconian Prosecutor
The senator and presidential hopeful went to bat for dirty prosecutors, opposed marijuana legalization, and championed policies that endanger sex workers.
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As she begins her 2020 presidential campaign, Sen. Kamala Harris is trying to position herself as a reformer who tirelessly works to correct the abuses of the criminal justice system. But the California Democrat has one big problem: her long record as a law-and-order prosecutor.
Harris's new memoir, The Truths We Hold, makes no mention of her past as an old-school drug warrior, a defender of dirty prosecutors, and a political opportunist who made life more dangerous for sex workers. Harris doesn't apologize for her previous stances, even those she now disavows; instead, she's decided to try to convince voters that she's always been a progressive prosecutor.
Here are some parts of her record that Harris is hoping you'll forget in the run-up to 2020.
HARRIS ON SEX WORKERS
Harris's political rise has been propelled by a yearslong, high-profile campaign against alleged sex traffickers. What she's actually done is help throw women in jail for having consensual sex, while trampling on the rule of law to advance her own political ambitions.
Ignoring the pleas of sex workers and human rights advocates for over a decade, she fought against campaigns to decriminalize consensual adult prostitution in California. As California attorney general, she helped lead a statewide program to get truckers to report suspected sex workers to police. These policies didn't stop traffickers, but they did land plenty of sex workers behind bars.
Harris fought to destroy Backpage.com, a classified ads site that sex workers used to find and screen clients, even though she publicly admitted that the site's founders, Michael Lacey and James Larkin, were protected from prosecution under federal free speech laws. But a month before Election Day in her Senate race, Harris went ahead and had them arrested anyway, parading them before cameras on pimping charges, which were then promptly dismissed by a judge.
When Harris got to Congress, she kept up her crusade, becoming a big proponent of the 2018 law known as SESTA-FOSTA. The result was that many sex workers no choice but to return to the streets, where soliciting clients is considerably more dangerous.
Meanwhile, Harris declined to intervene in a real underage sex-trafficking scandal that involved dozens of police and other local authorities in the Bay Area.
HARRIS ON PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT
In her memoir, Harris decries America's deep and dark history of people using the power of the prosecutor as an instrument of injustice, by framing innocent men or hiding exculpatory evidence. But during her time as California's top cop, she contributed to that history by repeatedly going to bat for dirty prosecutors.
Her office appealed the dismissal of a case in which a prosecutor had fabricated a confession to secure a conviction and fought an appeal in a case where the prosecutor lied to a jury during trial. In 2015, Harris tried to stop the removal of the Orange County District Attorney's office from a murder trial after it repeatedly failed to turn over evidence to the defense.
Her office even tried to keep a man in jail who had been wrongfully incarcerated for 13 years—even after a judge ruled he had proven himself innocent—because the man hadn't delivered the proof fast enough.
And as San Francisco District Attorney, Harris hid known misconduct by a crime lab technician who admitted to deliberately tainting evidence. The debacle has since led to the dismissal of hundreds of criminal cases.
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Xingyi Quan from Pingyao, Shanxi (2)
Performances from Pingyao Xingyi competition.....
Pingyao is considered a UNESCO Ancient City heritage. As a centre of trade and commercial activities of the past, many martial arts groups setup security businesses here. The most prevailent martial art is Xingyi Quan as also found in neighbouring Qi county and Taigu city....practitioners of Xingyi from all over participated.....
Incredible China show how the people endure queues, traffic & other problems on a level unique to th
From VERY packed public swimming pools to queues that stretch for miles: Astonishing photos reveal the daily crush in China
China covers 3.7 million square miles and is home to a vast 1.3 billion people, the world's largest population
Between the late 1970s and January of this year, it controlled its fast rising numbers with a one-child policy
A two-child policy has since replaced old laws, so its massive population is set to rise steeply once again
Incredible images of China show how the people endure queues, traffic and other problems on a level unique to the most populous country in the world.
With 1.3billion people, many of the cities are overrun during busy periods, with images revealing the true extent of the growing population, including gridlocked roads packed with static cars queued for miles on end.
The images - taken over the last 16 years - also show a beach with people packed so closely that not a grain of sand is visible as far as they eye can see as citizens dash to the water with rubber rings around them.
Thousands of children, who sit the same exams all over the country at the same time, are seen densely packed together on uniform desks in a vast hall.
This is despite the one-child policy China adopted in the 1970s that it claims has prevented 400million births, but demographers have called the claim into question.
Other images show how homes are tightly packed into what look like small uniform cells in sprawling tower blocks, essential to house the vast population.
As a residential compound opens for sale in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, swarms of keen people line up for the big reveal
Swimmers wrestle with colourful rubber rings at a pool in Daying county, Sichuan Province, this past August, in a situation that looks anything but relaxing
Students at a university in Wuhan, Hubei province, hang their laundry on lines and railings outside their housing complex
More than 1,700 secondary school students in Yichuan, Shaanxi province, sat this exam in 2015, which had to take place in its open-air playground due to lack of space inside
Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, which sees an enormous number of travellers and commuters pass through its halls
Scores of people bustle for space af the annual lantern festival in Yuyuan garden, located in China's city of Shanghai
Outside Beijing's International Airport, taxi drivers - one shirtless - line up to await passengers in the sweltering summer heat
Amid a sea of wheels and handlebars in Beijing, a woman who has somehow located her own bike prepares to cycle away
At a university is Wuhan, Hubei province, students sleep on mats laid out on an air-conditioned gym floor to escape the heat
Thousands upon thousands of job-seekers collect eagerly around booths at a job fair in Chongqing, southwestern China
This summer in Dalian, Liaoning Province, countless beaches were packed full of sunbathers and crowded with parasols
In a rather beautiful image, scores of people wander under lantern-dressed trees to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Beijing
The roomy Hong Qiao Train station, lined with brightly lit adverts, which gets particularly busy around national holidays
College students queue up for a job fair in 2014, which roughly 50,000 people attended in Zhengzhou, Henan province
Visitors congregate under umbrellas at Shanghai's China Pavilion - the most expensive in the world - on a rainy day in 2010
Visitors participate in the annual water-splashing festival to mark the New Year of the Dai minority in Xishuang Banna, Yunnan province in 2013
People queue up before viewing the soaring tide near the bank of Qiantang River in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in 2010
Vehicles are seen on a snaking avenue during the evening rush hour at sunset in Beijing in 2014, surrounded by skyscrapers
Heaving crowds line the Bund waterfront area in central Shanghai, always busy both during the day
Countless shoppers gather under kaleidascopic neon lights along Shanghai's bustling Nanjing Road in 2001, 15 years ago
Life Of Baji Quan Master Han HuaChen (edited - sub Eng)
Shandong TV documentary (edited & re-uploaded due to copyright issue) about the life of LuoTuan Baji Quan Master Han HuaChen (韩华臣).
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Yunnan (云南) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country. It spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres (152,000 sq mi) and has a population of 45.7 million (as of 2009). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys as much as 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
The Han Empire first recorded diplomatic relations with the province at the end of the 2nd century BC. It became the seat of a Sino-Tibetan-speaking kingdom of Nanzhao in the 8th century AD. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most-likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, with local control exercised by warlords until the 1930s. From the Yuan dynasty onward, the area was part of a central-government sponsored population movement towards the southwestern frontier, with two major waves of migrants arriving from Han-majority areas in northern and southeast China. As with other parts of China's southwest, Japanese occupation in the north during World War II forced another migration of majority Han people into the region. These two waves of migration contributed to Yunnan being one of the most ethnically diverse provinces of China, with ethnic minorities accounting for about 34 percent of its total population. Major ethnic groups include Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Dai and Miao.
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00:02:28 1 History
00:02:37 1.1 Prehistory
00:03:07 1.2 Pre-Nanzhao period
00:06:10 1.3 Nanzhao period
00:11:11 1.4 Dali Kingdom
00:12:15 1.5 Ming and Qing dynasties
00:14:43 1.6 Post-Imperial
00:16:26 1.7 Naturalists
00:17:40 2 Geography
00:18:48 2.1 Geology
00:20:06 2.2 Paleontology
00:20:24 2.3 Climate
00:21:52 2.4 Topography
00:23:30 2.5 Borders
00:24:21 2.6 Lakes
00:25:14 2.7 Rivers
00:26:52 2.8 Biodiversity
00:29:28 2.9 Designation
00:30:19 2.10 Natural resources
00:32:09 2.10.1 Drought
00:32:41 3 Scenic areas
00:32:51 3.1 National parks
00:33:12 3.2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
00:33:48 4 Governance
00:33:56 4.1 Administrative divisions
00:34:37 4.1.1 Urban areas
00:34:45 4.2 Politics
00:38:28 5 Demographics
00:38:37 5.1 Ethnicity
00:40:34 5.2 Languages
00:42:05 5.3 Literacy
00:42:41 5.4 Religion
00:44:22 6 Agriculture
00:47:14 7 Economy
00:52:59 7.1 Economic and Technological Development Zones
00:58:04 8 Education
01:00:37 9 Health
01:00:57 9.1 HIV-AIDS
01:01:09 10 Transport
01:01:18 10.1 Railways
01:03:55 10.2 Burma Road
01:05:29 10.3 Highways
01:07:34 10.3.1 Expressways
01:08:57 10.4 Waterways
01:09:57 10.5 Airports
01:10:55 10.6 Bridges
01:11:44 10.7 Metro
01:12:02 11 Culture
01:13:08 11.1 Eighteen Oddities of Yunnan
01:13:17 11.2 Cuisine
01:13:25 11.3 Tea
01:13:53 11.4 Music
01:14:01 11.5 Chinese medicine
01:14:22 11.6 Tourism
01:17:53 11.7 Places of interest
01:18:29 11.8 Sport
01:18:55 12 See also
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Yunnan (云南) is a province of China. Located in Southwest China, the province spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres (152,000 sq mi) and has a population of 47.368 million (as of 2015). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, as well as the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys by as much as 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
The Han Empire first recorded diplomatic relations with the province at the end of the 2nd century BC. It became the seat of a Sino-Tibetan-speaking kingdom of Nanzhao in the 8th century AD. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most-likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, followed by the Ming dynasty.
From the Yuan dynasty onward, the area was part of a central-government sponsored population movement towards the southwestern frontier, with two major waves of migrants arriving from Han-majority areas in northern and southeast China. As with other parts of China's southwest, Japanese occupation in the north during World War II forced another migration of Han people into the region. These two waves of migration contributed to Yunnan being one of the most ethnically diverse provinces of China, with ethnic minorities accounting for about 34 percent of its total population. Major ethnic groups include Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Dai and Miao.