For thousands of years, China has been known as a nation of Baijiu drinkers, but the cup is running dry as Gen Z and millennial drinkers crave healthier options ! Since 2013, we already knew that official meetings or economic meetings in China were more about tea than alcohol. But...
« CHINESE AS IT IS SPOKEN », really ?
This new Mandarin learning manual written by the French sinologist Renaud de Spens offers an original method, fluid, fast, at the same time, profound, because it goes straight to the point and, above all, it "uncomplexes" us because it responds to simple, obvious questions that only non-Chinese can ask about...
China-Middle East: 190 kg of hair and diplomacy!
One can be shocked by the sending of giant pandas "morphologically well protected from the cold" towards the furnaces of a Qatari desert. But let us remember that in the 8th century Empress Wu Zeitan offered 70 giant panda skins to the Emperor of Japan as a token of friendship....
First Chinese subway trains in Europe !
Two China-developed subway trains on Thursday left north China's Tianjin for Portugal’s Porto, marking the country's first metro project to be exported to a European Union country. Each train has a maximum passenger capacity of 334 people and a maximum speed of 80 km per hour. Founded in 1881, CRRC...
Chinese Robotics
From laboratory robot to work of art At the end of 2021, China gave itself 5 years to become a key player, globally, in the robotics sector. Its rise in power is already very real. Evidenced by the industry that shines brightly today: those of intelligent electric vehicles. The government's...