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- Crouching Pepper, Hidden Panda: another Chengdu promo video
May 14, 2013 - What's on Chengdu May 10-12
May 9, 2013 - What's on Chengdu May 3-5
May 2, 2013 - What's on Chengdu April 26-28
April 25, 2013 - Ya'an earthquake aftermath: Day 3 in news, photos and videos
April 22, 2013
From The Web
- Chinese man uses Google maps to locate family 23 years after being kidnapped
A Chinese man has used Google maps to locate his family, 23 years after he was abducted. Luo Gang, who was kidnapped when he was just five years old, used the online tool to locate two bridges - the only landmarks he remembered from his hometown.
Luo, 28, was snatched in a small town in Sichuan province while on his way to kindergarten. He was then taken hundreds of miles east, to Fujian province, where he was adopted by a family in the city of Sanming.
But Luo says he never gave up hope that he would one day be reunited with his biological parents. "Every day before I went to bed, I forced myself to relive the life spent in my old home," he told Fujian's Strait News. - Wenjiang's Empty Houses
According to a 2012 report by the Chengdu Statistics Bureau, among the six districts and counties around Chengdu, Wenjiang's urbanization rate was the highest at 54.6 percent.
But this kind of urbanization isn't necessarily good news for Wenjiang's economic development. The amount of fiscal revenue in the city reliant on real estate once surpassed 80 percent, and there's little industrial progress to speak of.
Wenjiang is a poster child for how urbanization alone doesn't necessarily bring sustainable economic development. Many scholars now realize urbanization shouldn't be a government-led way to promote economic development, but rather, it should come naturally as a result of economic development. - Rebuilding the Fengtongzhai Honey Cooperative (crowdfounding)
Rebuilding the local honey cooperative in Baoxing County.
- Unique "Hercules" moth from Papua New Guinea on display
It's the only specimen of its kind: an "androgynous" moth with a female and a male wing characteristics. On display starting May 18 at the Insect Museum in Qingchengshan
- BRT security training [pic]
This will happen to you if you don't behave.
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Monday, May 20
- Chengdu East Music Park
Oil on canvas: Contemporary Chinese Art. Free entrance. April 20 - May 20 @ CCengyi Gallery
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travel
Recent travel
- Xinjiang Grasslands
April 15, 2013 - Vietnam: Can Tho in pictures
March 26, 2013 - Xinjiang Part 1: Turpan
March 4, 2013 - East Mongolia, Part 2: A journey to the homeland of Choilbalsan
February 18, 2013 - The Vineyards of Penglai
January 22, 2013
Archive
From a month ago
- What's on Chengdu April 19-21
April 18, 2013 - Zebra Music Festival 2013: Schedule, tickets, and transport
April 17, 2013 - Eyeball scraping with a knife: a disappearing trade in Chengdu
April 16, 2013 - Xinjiang Grasslands
April 15, 2013 - Basi de Hen! crossing the line
April 15, 2013
From a year ago
- Ghetto Superstar Mama: the laowai-ma hall of shame
May 19, 2012 - What's on Chengdu May 18 to May 20
May 17, 2012 - Love in Sichuan [videos]
May 16, 2012 - Dandoval's Fast Food Trials: McDonald's
May 15, 2012 - The Rat and the Roach
May 11, 2012
