Seven people holding master's degrees began their jobs as sanitation workers this month in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province.
Being a wingless bird with a tuxedo doesn't automatically make you a penguin, but the whole cast of Angry Birds was in the frigid city of Harbin last week to kick off the annual Ice and Snow Festival. Finland's Ambassador to China Lars Backstrom laced up his winter wear and trekked up to China's Northeast to make opening-day speeches at the festival and the concurrent Arctic Exhibition. He was ably seconded, we hear, by those best-selling game birds, who have their own 3,000-square-meter park this year. The international crowd included more diplomats and sister-city representatives (Harbin has 27 sister cities in 23 countries at last count), including Santa Claus, from Harbin's sister city Rovaniemi in Finland's Lapland.
Making art from frozen water takes both determination and creativity.
Harbin Int'l Ice and Snow Festival kicks off
While birds fly south for the winter, people in China head north to see one of the country's most spectacular sights - the ice sculptures of Harbin.
I would like to evaluate the relations between Russia and China in 2012 in the context of the last 10 years and their projection into the future, as well as looking at them through the prism of global problems, on the one hand, and the interests of Russia, on the other.
Fitch Solutions said Wednesday that it has been approved to distribute the agency's credit ratings, data and research services in the Chinese mainland.
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