A thousand years ago during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), the ancient book Yingzao Fashi, one of China s earliest known building manuals, specified for the first time in China the construction standards for traditional wooden buildings.
Rising international ticket prices have triggered a new round of crackdowns, with yet another embassy taking measures to curb skyrocketing airfares while also strengthening the supervision of ticket sales channels.
As the 1,035-kilometer-long China-Laos Railway officially went into operation on Friday, the train, which connects Kumming in Southwest China s Yunnan Province and the Laos capital Vientiane, gives travelers the chance to not only look at breathtaking landscapes, but also observe the ancient and hidden villages that can be found alongside the railway.