Wang Shilong 王世龙 (born in 1930 in Henan province) served in the Propaganda Department of the People’s Liberation Army as photographer and oil painter between the years 1948 and 1950. He then became a photojournalist for local newspapers and travelled through Central China for more than thirty years.
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798 Photo Gallery – The first art gallery dedicated to photography in China was established in April 2003. It is located in Da Shan Zi Art District at #4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing. Its unique design is based on the original structure of the Bauhaus styled factory aided by East Germany. The gallery aims to discover and collect fine photography works, and provides a platform for cultural and commercial exchange in order to help photographers.
China’s first legally binding regulations for reducing PM2.5 levels have been approved by Beijing’s municipal congress.
Beijing’s annual average PM2.5 level currently stands at 89.5 micrograms per cubic meter, far exceeding the 35-micrograms national standard. Officials have previously pledged to reduce this figure by 25% over the next five years.
Findings by East China Normal University (ECNU), a research university in Shanghai, commissioned by respected U.K. outlet The Telegraph and released January 30, lodges concrete data behind what frequent users and analysts of Chinese social media have felt for months.
Vessels from the U.S. military and other countries increasingly find themselves in high-stakes confrontations in the region.
Documentary filmmaker and photographer Wang Jiuliang spent four years, between 2008 and 2011, documenting over 460 hazardous and mostly illegal landfill sites around Beijing.
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The statement also raised concerns about the treatment of foreign journalists in China.
Japan invests in India, and the two countries prepare for potential hostility from China.
Ramzy’s forced departure will result in the first full-time Times correspondent stationed in Taiwan.
