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Today's featured article Wuzhen (烏鎮(zhèn)) is a historic canal town south-west of Shanghai. The streets of the town run alongside rivers with bridges for intersections. (More) Archive

Did you know... ·... that Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation offers the largest non-governmental science and technology awards in China? ·... that Riyuetan-Weipai Building is the world's largest solar energy office building? ·... that Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway has a 350-km-per-hour average speed, boasting the world's fastest train journey? ·... that the Old Town of Pingyao's history goes back 2,700 years, when it was first built during the reign of King Xuan (827-782 BC) of the Western Zhou Dynasty? Archive

On this day... 10 Great Marshals of the PLA September 27 ·1949: National Anthem of the PRC selected. ·1955: China confered 10 Great Marshals of the PLA. ·1988: China launched carrier rocket from nuclear submarine. Archive