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A farmer's house along the Ancient Road of Mules and Horses

During the third general census of cultural relics in Hunan Province, an ancient road built during the Qin Dynasty (221–206 b.c.) was discovered around the environs of Dengjiatang Village, Chenzhou City in the province.
The Ancient Road of Mules and Horses

This roadway served as an important communications route two thousand years ago. "That ancient road is comparable to today's highway from Beijing to Zhuhai," Xie Wujing, an ancient road specialist in the Hunan Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau said.

"Hoof prints are still obvious on some of the slates. They couldn't have been formed in this way without hundreds of years of trampling," He Qiang, the deputy director of Cultural Relics Bureau of Hunan Province, said on October 11, 2007.

It is said that the towers were made from the top to bottom. The workers first piled up an enormous heap of earth, and once they were able to construct the top of the tower, they dug away some of the earth to build the third floor, the second and then the first floor.

Outside the eastern outer court, we saw three historic buildings: the theater platform which was built in 1792, a temple...

The Jiayu Pass, the western starting point of the existing Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in Gansu Province, is a historic attraction for tourists from both home and abroad.
I visited the pass along with a group of nine employees from Shenzhen's Guan Shanyue Art Museum on Sept. 20 after visiting the Dunhuang Grottoes. This was the second time I had been to the attraction I first visited in 1995.

When we arrived at the pass at around 9:30 AM, I immediately noticed a number of environmental changes had been made.

Picture taken on October 16, 2007 shows the main entrance of the palace attached to Western Tombs (Xiling) complex of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911...

The ancient wall of Jingzhou City

The Jingzhou ancient wall was first built ...

Last year China made a list of sites waiting to apply for the world heritage list. The ancient city walls in three cities, Nanjing City of Jiangsu Province, Xingcheng City of Liaoning Province, and Xi'an City of Shaanxi Province, were list as one unit for China's ancient city walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Another city, Jingzhou City of Hubei Province was added to the application at the Forum of Scientific Protection for Ancient City Walls, which opened on October 12.

According to the forum, China has more than 100 ancient city walls under protection, most of which were built after the Ming Dynasty because of the "building high city walls" policy raised by Zhu Yuanzhang, or the Emperor Hongwu, who founded the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

    HONG KONG, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong has retained its position as Asia's second largest destination for foreign direct investment (FDI), according to a report released on Wednesday by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

    The report, named World Investment Report 2007, highlighted Hong Kong as a "front-runner"...

Nike Inc sales in China are growing at over 50 percent annually and will reach $1 billion within a year, making the mainland its second largest market globally, Chief Executive Mark Parker said on Thursday.

Nike, the world's largest athletic shoe and clothing maker, opened its company-owned flagship store in Beijing two months ago and said it would soon establish a studio in China to de...

Lianyungang in East China's Jiangsu Province expects a local carbon fiber maker to become the world's largest by 2010, said the city's Party secretary Wang Jianhua.

The port city also aims to build Asia's largest base for producing wind power blade by then, said Wang, a delegate from Jiangsu attending the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.