California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill to make Chinese Lunar New Year a state holiday in California. Civil servants, teachers, public transport drivers and any other public service workers will now be entitled to 8 hours to get rid of the problems of the past year and move...
Chinese Memories from Belgium
In 2011, Johan Famaey composed "Chinese Memories", a hymn to Sino-European friendship. Indeed, this Belgian musician looks at Chinese music from a Western point of view and gives ancient Eastern texts a surprising Eastern-Western appearance. For his concert in an old baroque church in Antwerp (northern Belgium), LHCH had a...
AI in China: what opportunities in the future ?
According to a recent long report by Mc Kinsey in China, over the past decade, China has built a solid foundation to support its AI economy and made significant contributions to AI in the world. In research, for example, China produced about one-third of both AI journal articles and AI...
China, country of mountains !
The relief of China is above all marked by the mountain. Did you know that 40% of China's territory is above 2,000 meters above sea level? The altitude actually decreases from west to east, from the Himalayan range to the coasts of rich southeastern China. There are generally three major...
The Chinese Sage and the Greek Philosopher
The Chinese Sage for the great sinologist François Jullien is "without idea". He is careful not to put an idea ahead of the others - to the detriment of the others: there is no idea that he puts in mind, posed in principle, serving as a foundation or simply as...
The Bejing that reads!
According to a recent study by the Chinese Academy of Press and Publishing, the Chinese read, on average, 8 books (paper and/or digital) per year. It's really not much and it contradicts the affluence that reigns in the places of the capital "where we read". Admittedly, the passion for reading,...
Zhuhaï, a modern and green city!
It erects its towers in a heavenly delta… where the Pearl River flows into the China Sea. Nearly half of the city's area is given over to green spaces and palm trees abound. It's gratifying knowing that Zhuhai is above all a special economic zone (to us duty-free shopping!) so...