Alcohol Zero for Gen Z ? 

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...

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...

Chinese New Year holiday in California!

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...

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...