2013/03/13
Villagers prepare masks for the Guansuo play in Xiaotun village, Chengjiang county in Yunnan province. The play is a ceremony to pray for good weather and a bumper grain harvest. Liu Ranyang / China News Service...
2009/09/28
A national planning group and office for collecting and publishing ancient books of the ethnic minorities have been established by the State to organize the work for the recovery, sorting-out and protection of ancient books of the ethnic minorities. By the end of 2008, several million titles of anci...
2009/09/27
China's Ethnic Policy and Common Prosperity and Development of All Ethnic Groups Information Office of the State Councilof the People's Republic of ChinaSeptember 27, 2009, Beijing ...
2008/03/10
The province wants to set up a system within five years to protect the area by turning 13 percent of its northwest into nature reserves and increasing forest coverage to around 60 percent, Qin Guangrong, governor of Yunnan, said.The funding will go to environmental protection, new energy development...
2007/11/26
It was a festive day for pupils of Shitou Primary School when Volkswagen came to town. Students of the school, who are from the Bai minority, dressed in traditional clothes to welcome their first foreign teacher - who came to speak as part of the automaker's "Green Class" program.Ingrid Vahland, a G...
