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Industry

A long-distance duet

Tucked behind the gray-brick facades of Beijing's Dafangjia hutong (alleyway), a heavy wooden door opens into stillness. Inside Under Clouds Green, a plant-based Yunnan cuisine restaurant, the city's noise dissolves almost instantly.

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Migratory birds at Xinhua Lake, Daqing, Heilongjiang

Ice begins to melt at Xinhua Lake in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, as migratory birds return with the season, bringing life to the quiet winter waters.

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Cultural Exchange

Hand-pulled noodles connect cultures across continents

LANZHOU — With swift, practiced hands, 42-year-old Peng Jingjing twists, stretches, and folds dough into slender strands before a dozen students at the I. E. S. Hotel Escuela in Madrid, bringing the art of hand-pulled noodles to life.

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Industry

Runners race through peach blossoms in full bloom

NANJING — On a brisk spring morning, thousands of runners in peach-blossom-themed shirts created a sea of pink, setting off along a 10-kilometer course winding through peach orchards, farmhouses and the soft glow of the season.

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Cultural Exchange

Finding connections on ancient shudao

On an ancient road in Sichuan province, Sandra Dorothy Carpenter presses her palm against a one-thousand-year-old cypress tree, the scent of cypress filling the air around her.

 

What's on

The Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai is presenting The Two Peaks, an exhibition through May 10, that surveys the two artists' lives, artistic styles and educational philosophies.