The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday stripped the Chinese women’s gymnastics team of a bronze medal it won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The move came two months after one of China’s athletes, Dong Fangxiao, was found to be under-age at those Summer Games.
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The latest exports figures from the Federal Statistics Office of Germany shows that German exports fell 18.4% in 2009 as a whole. This translates to a dollar equivalent of $1.121 trillion. By contrast, China's exports totaled $1.202 trillion.
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The Qinghai-Tibet Railway starts in Xining, the capital city of China's Qinghai Province and stretches to Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Almost the entire length of the railway sits at an altitude higher than 3,500 meters, earning it the nickname “the nearest door to heaven.”
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Language
喝西北风
"喝西北风" literally means to breathe the northwest wind. This phrase describes a straitened circumstance where there's nothing to eat but the wind. There are different stories attributed as the origin of this habitual phrase: one story suggests that "喝西北风" advocates the ideal state of a Taoist: living solely by breathing air; another story suggests that in China, the northwest wind is the most frigid wind during winter, breathing this wind while having nothing to eat further exacerbate the pain of hunger and cold.
Culture
Chinese Yo-yo
The Chinese yo-yo is a toy from China consisting of two equally-sized discs connected with a long axle.
Opinion
China's Populat...
China's population is projected to reach 1.4 billion by the end of 2015, when the urban population will become the majority for the first time, officials said.
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