Un très bel exemple de solidarité dans le Shaanxi, en Chine. Un producteur de graines de melon a arrêté ses machines pour offrir son usine aux paysans pour le séchage des céréales car la récolte bat son plein ! Son raisonnement ? « Si les gens ne peuvent même pas manger...
Shifting perceptions of money among Chinese millennials
Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are people born between 1981 and 1996. In 2023, the oldest millennial will be 42 years old and the youngest will be 27 years old. There are over 350 million millennials in China, which is 25 percent of the total population. They tend to...
China population: life expectancy to increase to over 80 by 2035 !
As high as 90 for women in affluent areas, study shows. Life expectancy at birth in China is projected to increase to 81.3 by 2035, according to a paper published in the The Lancet Public Health. But the study by a group of Chinese researchers follows China’s birth rate falling...
The first European to enter the Forbidden City
...From Lhasa! This is the fascinating destiny of Alexandra David-Néel, of Franco-Belgian origin. Former lyrical singer, writer and orientalist, this fiery explorer discovered, in 1924, the interior of the Forbidden City of Lhasa! And died centenary! Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, looks like a white fortress hanging on the slopes...
Chinese ink painting inspires contemporary art
Zhang Wen Hai in Brussels, capital of Europe. "In Europe I learned the beauty of the Unfinished" Originally from northern China, but born in Shanghai because his parents worked there, the painter Zhang Wenhai spent as much time in China as in Belgium, which is to say if he knows...
Shanghai West Bund Museum
It extends to the west of the city of Shanghai, along the Huangou River and offers absolute immersion in the world of art. This cultural space was initiated by the West Band group in the wake of the 2010 Universal Exhibition. All abandoned industrial sites have been managed to become...
Longquan Celadon Art Exhibition in Brussels
China's Longquan celadon is a precious gem in the realm of Chinese porcelain, ra unpretentious yet refined charm with its jade-like enamel. The traditional firing techno Longquan celadon was inscribed in 2009 on the Representative List of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Do you know this treasure ?...
Tragedy of a billionaire in love with China
Death of Myriam Ullens this week in Belgium. In 2007, Myriam and her husband Guy Ullens founded UCCA as the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, consolidating their years of support for contemporary art in China and making an invaluable contribution towards its continued development. Although the Ullens transferred ownership of...
European Women’s International Leadership Award 2023
Four years ago, German Frank Schwalba-Hot, a former MEP and co-founder of the European Greens Party, had the idea of creating an award for extraordinary women on the occasion of International Women's Day , the “European Women’s International Leadership Award“. This 2023 edition was once again organized at “The Brussels...
G7 and G20
Their role in the context of current multiple crises and the global environment By Pedro Henriques Interested with the same intensity in arts, cinématographie, history, football, politics, music and the future of our globe, The Portugal-born Pedro Henriques studied law and European studies, became university assistant, Commission intern and Commission official, , the Uruguay Trade Round, industrial aspects of environmental policies, environmental integration into external relations, TACIS programme, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, became an EU diplomat in Moscow (leaving his...