Tag Archives: China

1. People in China can hire body doubles to serve a prison sentence for them.

A finalist presents his giant ganoderma at the annual “Mushroom King” contest at Nanhua County, in southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Tuesday. There are a total of ten categories in the “Mushroom King” event, with separate sections for different species, such as matsutake, ganoderma and truffle. Over 2,000 people attended …

A lot of people claim to know about China only by knowing a few famous Chinese dishes and products. But there are many mind blowing facts that’ll make you think Why? and How? 1.WHILE TRAINING HOW TO MARCH THE ARMS OF THE SOLDIERS ARE WIRED AND ATTACHED TO POLES IN …

Ordos, China, was created on one-sixth of China’s coal reserves, and was meant to attract almost 1 million people (which was later scaled back to 300,000) after having been built from scratch. But high property taxes and poor construction made it so that there is only around 100,000 people living …

World’s Largest Redwood Sculpture From Single Tree Trunk That Took 20 People 3 Years to Complete A giant wooden sculpture of a roaring lion now stands proudly in a Central Chinese city square, and the journey it took to get there makes it all the more spectacular. The Oriental Lion, …

These charming girls are the students of the College of Civil Aviation in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Trainee stewardesses practice a graceful smile by holding a chopstick between their teeth. They also place magazines on their heads to achieve the perfect posture. Another exercise that helps the girls to get great …

What if I told you that Chinese culture is completely different from the Western culture? Yeah, and if you add the fact that there are literally billions of people living there, you may find some weird items being sold throughout the country. And it doesn’t really matter if you’re in …

Do you have a favorite city that you’ve been dreaming to visit? A city with a signature look like Dubai, London or New York? Most of us have must-see places like that, but not many of us realize that these cities have transformed in appearance fairly recently. In fact, just …

It’s a good job that these vertical forests in Nanjing, China are going to produce 132 pounds (60kg) of oxygen every day, because they’ll literally take your breath away when you see them. They’re called the Nanjing Towers, and once they’re complete in 2018 they’ll be Asia’s first ever vertical …

By the end of 2017, all ivory trade in China will be banned, as per Chinese government’s new rule. Aili Kang, Asia Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society, wrote: “This is great news that will shut down the world’s largest market for elephant ivory. I am very proud of my …