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...
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...
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...