It is an
ancient tower.
这是一座古塔。
It's from
ancient Rome.
它来自古老的罗马。
Now scientists are bringing this
ancient wisdom up-to-date.
现在科学家们正在更新这一古老的智慧。
As the Spring Festival holiday approaches and the festive mood intensifies, concerns also rise about potential fire and power hazards in the closely-packed houses in Qiantong ancient town in Ninghai county of Ningbo, Zhejiang province.
随着春节假期的临近和节日气氛的加剧，人们也越来越担心浙江省宁波市宁海县前通古镇拥挤的房屋可能存在火灾和电力隐患。
"I'm really grateful that State Grid technicians have helped us eliminate potential electrical safety hazards, especially during special periods such as Spring Festival," said Tong Caixia, a homestay owner at the ancient town, when employees of State Grid Ningbo Power Supply Co came to conduct safety checks at her place on Jan 8.
1月8日，当国网宁波供电公司的员工来到古镇进行安全检查时，古镇的民宿老板童彩霞说：“我非常感谢国家电网的技术人员帮助我们消除了电气安全隐患，尤其是在春节等特殊时期。”。
As evening approaches, the lights in the ancient alleys of Qiantong begin to glow, reflecting the busy silhouettes of service team members still moving among the crowds.
傍晚时分，千童古巷里的灯光开始闪烁，映照出仍在人群中流动的服务队员们忙碌的身影。
Located in the southwest of Ninghai county, Qiantong ancient town's long history could date back to the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1233) and is a prime example of ancient Confucian Culture.
前通古镇位于宁海县西南部，历史悠久，可追溯到南宋（公元1233年），是古代儒家文化的典范。
As one of the best preserved, the ancient town now holds more than 1,300 ancient dwellings, most of which are brick and wood beam buildings.
作为保存最完好的古镇之一，古镇目前拥有1300多座古民居，其中大部分是砖木梁建筑。
"With reliable power supply and regular safety checks, we feel reassured and secured when using electricity, and our nights have become even more beautiful," a local resident of the ancient town said.
古镇的一位当地居民说：“有了可靠的电力供应和定期的安全检查，我们在用电时感到放心和安全，我们的夜晚变得更加美丽。”。
It offers shoppers in-store tours themed Flourishing Chang'an, to pay homage to the ancient capital of the Tang Dynasty, which is now Xi'an.
它为购物者提供以繁荣长安为主题的店内旅游，以向唐朝古都西安致敬。
The Forbidden City and Great Wall in Beijing, the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an, Hangzhou's West Lake and the Shanghai skyline are all symbols of China's ancient heritage and modern achievements, making it an exciting destination for travelers.
北京的紫禁城和长城、西安的兵马俑、杭州的西湖和上海的天际线都是中国古代遗产和现代成就的象征，使其成为旅行者兴奋的目的地。
The Chinese team, while showcasing costumes of ancient China, also interacted with the crowds and won rounds of applause.
中国队在展示中国古代服饰的同时，还与观众互动，赢得了阵阵掌声。
Exchanges between the two ancient civilizations can be traced back to the ancient Silk Road more than 2,000 years ago.
这两个古老文明之间的交流可以追溯到2000多年前的古丝绸之路。
The hotel restaurant provides local breakfast, and guests can plan an energetic trip to Zhoucun Ancient Village to experience intangible cultural heritage, such as on-site baking of Zhoucun pancakes and viewing ancient promissory notes.
酒店餐厅提供当地早餐，客人可以计划一次充满活力的周村古村之旅，体验非物质文化遗产，如现场烘焙周村煎饼和观看古代本票。
Xiamen has been a trading port since the ancient times as well as a gateway for China's opening-up and external cooperation.
厦门自古以来就是一个通商口岸，是中国对外开放和对外合作的门户。
Domestic enterprises aim to develop such bricks by seeking inspiration from ancient Chinese culture to meet demand in a booming market.
国内企业的目标是从中国古代文化中寻求灵感来开发这种砖，以满足蓬勃发展的市场需求。
Liu Wenhui, founder of Wanfeng Bricks, which is based in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, said developing toy bricks based on the mortise-and-tenon construction method perfectly showcases the unique architectural features of ancient Chinese buildings, which have symbolized the nation throughout its 5,000-year history.
总部位于浙江省省会杭州的万丰砖公司创始人刘文辉表示，开发基于榫卯施工方法的玩具砖完美地展示了中国古代建筑的独特建筑特征，这些建筑在5000年的历史中一直象征着这个国家。
"Born in Fenyang, Shanxi province, a city surrounded by ancient architecture such as temples, ancestral halls, pagodas and the city wall ruins, Liu dreamed of doing "something related to traditional Chinese architecture" when he was a boy.
刘出生在山西省汾阳市，这座城市被寺庙、祠堂、佛塔和城墙废墟等古老建筑所包围，他小时候就梦想着做一些“与中国传统建筑有关的事情”。
"I am determined to make good-quality and representative building bricks with Oriental beauty to showcase our ancient culture and traditions," Liu said.
刘说：“我决心制作具有东方特色的优质代表性建筑砖，展示我们古老的文化和传统。”。
Liu said, "We are working to develop more toy bricks as cultural and creative products based on ancient buildings, allowing those that use them to immerse themselves in the magnificent beauty of Chinese culture.
刘说：“我们正在努力开发更多的玩具砖作为以古建筑为基础的文化创意产品，让使用它们的人沉浸在中国文化的壮丽之美中。
"Differentiated from other block games, it is about the construction to show the wisdom of ancient Chinese, and we expect the educational program could boost the children's room experience", Busto said.
Busto说：“与其他方块游戏不同，它是为了展示古代中国人的智慧而建造的，我们希望这个教育项目能提升儿童的房间体验。”。
The first batch of tourist locations includes The Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Century Park, Fengjing Ancient Town and Sheshan National Forest Park.
首批旅游景点包括东方明珠电视塔、世纪公园、枫泾古镇、射山国家森林公园。
In the history of treating cataracts there was a needle-splitting treatment in ancient China which required the doctor to put a hole in the lens and let a little light leak into the eye.
A captain from Italy and a flight attendant of the Jingpo ethnicity from an ancient Chinese village both came to work for China Eastern Airlines out of love.
It has the Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan, a top-rated UNESCO World Heritage site and global geopark, in the north, and Phoenix Ancient Town in the middle.
The NUO Resort Hotel is designed to offer a luxurious escape inspired by the beauty of China's ancient royal gardens.
It was here that on Dec 14, 2009, with the participation of the heads of Turkmenistan, the People's Republic of China, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the ceremonial launch of the Central Asia-China gas pipeline took place, which has become a modern embodiment of the ancient Great Silk Road.
Proposed in 2013, the BRI comprises the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st century Maritime Silk Road, which aim at building trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road.
Based on ancient TCM prescriptions, and using raw materials selected worldwide, the company produces TCM products with a unique process and patent in an American good manufacturing practice, or GMP, factory, which helps promote TCM around the world and facilitate the internationalization of TCM, Xu said.
It costs 800 yuan to take a short helicopter trip in the ancient city of Datong in North China's Shanxi province, and more than 2,000 tourists have taken such trips so far this year.
Sesajal first participated in the CIIE in 2018, when it brought a sample of its high-quality chia, an ancient Mexican seed rich in nutrients and antioxidants.
She said the brand's collection is mainly divided into two categories－innovative and retro, but the style and shape of the clothing follows an ancient pattern.
To tackle the bottleneck, the unit formed a BIM team and applied the international leading ancient building restoration 3D-scanning technology to solve the problem.
Meanwhile, nurturing leaders from local young mothers to bring ancient intangible cultural heritage out of the risk of being endangered is also on the agenda for the project.
According to Lau, the guiding rationale for the superfast rollout boils down to the same principles that give the ancient trade a digital makeover: the internet is making insurance a lot easier to access, much more transparent and more affordable.
"Seville has developed a rich culture over its 2,000 years of history, so we are delighted to collaborate with the Seville government to bring new UAM technology to this ancient city," said Hu Huazhi, the founder, chairman and CEO of EHang.
Xi'an, at the heart of the new Silk Road Economic Belt, is taking on the same important role it had during the ancient route in Marco Polo's era.
"We will never miss the whole forest just because of a tree," said Lei Bingnan, sales director for Asia-Pacific of Microvast Inc, citing an ancient Chinese proverb.
The event covers ancient and modern contemporary works of art between the East and West.
To solve the dilemma, scientists from Scitop Bio-tech searched through the ancient trade routes in China, Mongolia, Russia, and separated lactic acid bacteria from traditional fermented dairy products, where they successfully collected 14,341 probiotic strains, and greatly narrowed the gap of R&D ability with foreign probiotic companies.
As a fan of Yunnan ancient wild tree black tea, Shih tends to meditate a lot on the correct path to take in his spare time.
The port has enjoyed a long historical excellence since ancient times, but its fate took a wrong turn a decade ago.
The company is now set to continue its overseas expansion into economies involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to connect Asia with Africa and Europe through an infrastructure and trade grid along the ancient Silk Road.
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei has signed a memorandum of understanding with the city of Vila-real in eastern Spain to help transform the ancient city into a "smart city".
In addition to working with the Palace Museum on ancient royalty themes, the biggest intellectual property of the year is the adorable pig image, as the 12-month lunar period beginning Feb 5 is regarded the Year of the Pig.
Her love for Chinese ancient poems, Western operas, and objects of history - in her spare time, she flies off to London to watch an opera or visit local museums - helps Huang to understand the nuances of ancient architecture and how to allow the lessons they contain to inform modern constructions.
Philanthropical endeavors have been carried out in a variety of forms, including the restoration and protection of ancient cultural heritage such as the Palace Museum in the form of games.
"Driven by that realization, Jiangxiaobai exploded on China's spirits scene in 2012, debuting in the riverside ancient town of Baisha near Chongqing.
The hotel opened in 2016 in Xi'an, which was a major trading hub of the ancient Silk Road 2,000 years ago and is set for the same important role under the Belt and Road Initiative.
The BRI aims to boost trade links and infrastructure connectivity among Asia, Europe and Africa－a throwback to the ancient Silk Road routes.
The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road introduced by China in 2013 aims at building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along ancient trade routes.
For Zhu Xiaofeng, an expert at the Dunhuang Research Academy, studying the ancient Buddhist paintings in the Mogao Grottoes in Gansu province is a lifetime's work.
Zhu has spent many years in the caves recording and studying the wall paintings, which contain musical elements such as ancient instruments and performance scenes.
The music unit of Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd has partnered with the Dunhuang Research Academy to launch a competition to reproduce ancient music as represented in the caves of Dunhuang.
"Through such an easy-to-access activity, we hope to let more young people learn more about and fall in love with the precious ancient culture of Dunhuang, to gradually inherit it for themselves, and finally to spread it to more people," said Chen Feifei, head of QQ Music marketing and communication.
To tackle this challenge, QQ Music first transformed and simplified the ancient music scores, which are hard to understand, she said.
""We don't mind breaking the traditional way of playing music and hope to bring some new perspectives and elements to the ancient culture," he said.
Zhu said he spends almost every day in the caves to record music-related images in the wall paintings, be it a flying apsara playing the pipa－a four-stringed traditional Chinese music instrument－or a dancer performing to ancient music.
The initiative, proposed by China in 2013, refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road which aim at building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road.
"The initiative, proposed by China in 2013, refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, and is aimed at increasing international cooperation by revitalizing the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road.
The all-inclusive model of Club Med, the aquarium that reveals the mystery of the ancient city of Atlantis inside the Atlantis Resort, and the emphasis on service across all these offerings are evidence of this, he said.
In Hongcun, an ancient village listed as a 5A-rated tourism spot, the highest level in the country's tourism sector, Meituan is shaking hands with the local tourism authority to create some new modes of travel by reviving ancient traditions.
Hongcun, located in Yixian county of Huangshan city, East China's Anhui province, is well-known as one of the most famous traditional Chinese villages with hundreds of unique ancient houses built during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911).
Children and their parents can "travel" back to the Ming Dynasty to be an ancient student sitting in a traditional house of Hongcun, chanting classics, writing calligraphy and making traditional food.
Such study-oriented and experience-based tours have also provided this ancient village with new growth engines.
"China and the Philippines are two friendly neighbors since ancient times, which should not be affected by a single issue over territory in the (South China Sea) … I believe both (countries') leaders have the wisdom to solve it in a peaceful way.
We need a 'Translation Movement' between the Middle East and China," Harahsheh said, referring to the ancient efforts in Baghdad to translate Greek classics into Arabic.
Baijiu is a grain-based liquor that has been produced in China since ancient times.
Proposed by China in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative is aimed at creating a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient Silk Road routes.
Proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative aims to achieve infrastructure, trade and people-to-people connectivity along and beyond the ancient Silk Road trade routes, building a new platform for international cooperation to create new drivers of growth.
"Professionals will act as bridges and ties between China and other countries along the (ancient silk trade) routes," it said.
Proposed by China in 2013, the BRI aims to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along ancient Silk Road trade routes.
In recent years, the farm started to seek expansion opportunities along the ancient Silk Road trade routes.
China has demonstrated its willingness to do this through a number of initiatives including the Belt and Road Initiative, which has the aim of building a trade and infrastructure network to connect Asia with Europe and Africa along various ancient trade routes over land and sea.
The initiative was proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013 with the aim of building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along ancient trade routes.
Proposed by China in 2013, the initiative aims to build trade, infrastructure and service networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa based on ancient land and maritime trade routes.
Proposed by China in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative aims to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa based on ancient land and maritime trade routes.
On the west, east and south sides, Algiers neighborhoods offer an alternating show of ancient architecture and modern buildings.
For those standing atop the minaret, everything is within reach of the eye, including famous places and monuments of the capital such as the ancient city of the Casbah, the Cathedral of Notre Dame d'Afrique, and El Aurassi Hotel.
"Gansu has long been a stronghold on the ancient Silk Road.
The conglomerate will tap into eight businesses already based in the national development zone, boosting the ancient city’s development by making use of its advantages in internet finance, data, retailing and e-commerce.
By teaming up with Chinese partners, MNCs strike gold in the B&R InitiativeNew facts appear to demystify the Belt and Road Initiative led by China, which aims to strengthen nations on and beyond the ancient Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road routes through trade and infrastructure networks across Asia, Africa and Europe.
(DH stands for Dun Huang, a city in Gansu province, Northwest China, that was part of the ancient Silk Road.
Proposed by China in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative aims to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient Silk Road trade routes.
His years in China have helped sensitize him to both modern and ancient aspects of the country and its culture "China shares the same culture with Italy: We are very close to our family, we are very close to our friends, and we love food… that's why I enjoyed so much my time here.
Instead of the fourth-year Peking University undergraduate student that he was, he looked like someone from the pages of ancient Chinese history.
"The technology, the people, the culture - all these things have this amazing root in ancient China, but at the same time are taking the world by storm," he said.
Egypt is also a major hub in China's Belt and Road Initiative launched four years ago, which is designed to revive ancient trade routes to link China with a number of countries in Asia, Africa and Europe through trade and infrastructure networks.
Tag Design, a Chinese mobile internet start-up, launched a new app with which users can learn the history of China's ancient folding fan through eye-catching graphics, vivid animations and interesting games in a bid to take advantage of digitalization to promote traditional Chinese culture.
This is all part of the company's export drive along the Belt and Road Initiative, which connects Asia, Africa and Europe to a modern version of the ancient Silk Road.
But now the group plans to increase its exports as part of President Xi Jinping's initiative, which aims to connect Asia, Africa and Europe to a modern version of the ancient Silk Road.
The Belt and Road Initiative, comprising the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, aims to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along ancient trade routes.
The building was designed with the shape of an ancient barrel, meant to reflect rich historical heritage and modern development ambitions of the east African country.
The Belt and Road Initiative, which comprises the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, was brought up by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, with the aim of building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient Silk Road routes.
xa0 [Photo provided to China Daily]Backed by the Kazakh government, ERG has benefited from the Belt and Road Initiative, which connects Asia, Africa and Europe to a modern version of the ancient Silk Road.
Chinese tourists take pictures during their visit to the Amman Citadel, an ancient Roman landmark in Amman, Jordan, in 2016.
Already Dai has branched out into foreign markets that are part of the Belt and Road Initiative, which connects Asia, the Middle East and Europe to a modern version of the ancient Silk Road.
PowerChina Eurasia covers 63 countries in South and Central Asia, Transcaucasia, Europe and other regions, most of which are along the Belt and Road, an initiative proposed by China to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient Silk Road trade routes.
According to China Eastern's plan, Xi'an will reprise its role as the starting point of the ancient Silk Road, albeit in the air.
Proposed by China in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, aiming at building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient trade routes of Silk Road.
The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, known together as the Belt and Road Initiative, were proposed in 2013 with the aim of building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient trade routes.
China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013 with the aim of building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient trade routes.
Chen said the initiative will benefit the company's efforts to promote interactions between Chinese contractors seeking overseas opportunities and service providers along the ancient trading routes.