Communities, ageing and the state of public services.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has opened in Los Angeles, designed by Chinese architect Ma Yansong around the idea of a floating cloud that blends Chinese garden traditions with a contemporary design language. The museum holds more than 40,000 works, and its curatorial team says it plans to explore more connections to China ahead.
Vision China made its London debut under the theme Listen to Each Other, Open New Horizons, with experts from education, art and music calling for closer people-to-people exchange to close the gap between perceptions of China and reality. The event followed a phone call between Xi Jinping and the British prime minister.
In Hebei's Quzhou county, a group of African students work the fields alongside Chinese farmers, learning to drive tractors and take soil samples. China Agricultural University's Science and Technology Backyard program is carrying Chinese farming know-how to the Global South in pursuit of the zero hunger goal.
In the latest episode of Into Chinese Art, Russian cultural observer Alina Efimova and Dong Zhuo, vice dean of the Central Academy of Fine Arts' School of Restoration, explore why netizens describe Fahai Temple's Ming dynasty murals as naked-eye 3D, and the traditional techniques behind their glowing halo effect.
Xi Jinping has written back to Fujian's Zhangzhou 110 police unit, calling on officers nationwide to keep serving the people and act as loyal guardians of the Party and the people. The unit has run a rapid 110 response mechanism since 1990, and Xi visited it three times while working in Fujian.
Marking the 105th anniversary of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, PUMCH and the US-based China Medical Board signed a third five-year cooperation memorandum, as officials and experts from both countries called for deeper health cooperation. The hospital now exchanges with more than 20 US medical institutions, logging over 300 mutual visits a year.
