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Skyscrapers look like their name: They are buildings so high; it appears like they are scraping, or touching the sky. With better technology, architects people who design buildings engineers and builders have been able to build buildings higher and h

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A brief introduction to a tourist attraction Welcome everyone, I am glad that you can come to Pingyao County, where there is the oldest Confucius temple. It was opened to the public Monday after a one-year renovation project. I hope you can appreciat

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The world this week-Business 本周经济要闻 HewlettPackard decided to hive off its PCandprinter business and create a new company, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, to focus on servers, cloud computing and big data. 惠普决定分出的个人电脑和打

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I have an excuse for not updating my podcast for a few days, honestly....I dove into a renovation project in my house. It's something that I have wanted to do for a long time, but something always seems to come up*, so the project gets put off. The p

2006年VOA标准英语-Premier History Museum to Undergo Renovation

By Jeff Custer Washington, D.C. 25 August 2006 watch Museum report The National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. will soon undergo a major renovation. But officials have announced a plan to keep some of the institution's most significa

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged efforts to deepen human-centered urbanization as it can improve people's livelihoods and boost economy. 中国国务院总理李克强近日部署深入推进以人为核心的城镇化，改善人们生活，促进

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HAVANA, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Cuban legislators met here Saturday to discuss vital economic and social issues at the first annual session of the new parliament, chaired by the country's president Raul Castro. During the two-day parliament sessions, the

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged efforts to deepen human-centered urbanization as it can improve peoples livelihoods and boost economy. 国家总理李克强近日部署深入推进以人为核心的城镇化，改善人们生活，促进经济发展

北京故宫养心殿启动百年来首次大修

One of the buildings at Beijing's Palace Museum, or Forbidden City, most closely associated with imperial life is to undergo a major renovation based on traditional construction techniques, the museum announced on Friday. 北京故宫博物院周五宣

China to support renovation of rural rundown homes

BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government said on Saturday it will subsidize 4 million poor rural households through a pilot scheme to renovate their dilapidated houses in rural areas this year. Subsidies allocated by the central government

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The Canterbury earthquake on Sept 4th was unusual because no one was killed. It is the only city in the world which has experienced a 7.1 magnitude earthquake without any deaths. Part of the reason for this is our building code. New buildings have to

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Evgeny Tomikhin, Minister-Counselor at the Russian Embassy in Beijing, notes the victory in World War II came at a huge cost. He says its the Russian government's goal to ensure that sacrifice is not forgotten. The effort to prevent the distortion of

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After hosting the Summer Olympics in 2008, Beijing was recently picked for the 2022 Winter Games, the first city to organize both events. The last games fueled a major construction boom and offered the Chinese capital a chance to build world-class ho

Buildings collapse after subsidence in S China

GUANGZHOU, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Two buildings consisting of six shops collapsed Monday afternoon after subsidence in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, the municipal government has confirmed. At around 4:40 p.m., subsidence occurr

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Buildings reglazed after meteorite strike in Russia

MOSCOW, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Most buildings damaged by Friday's meteorite fall in Russia's central Urals Region have been restored, and educational institutions will operate as usual on Monday. Xinhua reporters saw in the hardest-struck Chelyabinsk Re

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NW China to lift 100,000 people out of poverty

LANZHOU, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Over the past few days, Rugur and his partners have been reconsidering how to help their village in northwest China's Gansu Province shake off poverty and make more money. Rugur is head of the remote Haikang village in t

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The house was not the minimalist and modernist style Jobs would have designed if he had built a home from scratch. 如果这处房子是乔布斯自己从头设计的，肯定不会设计成这样，这不是他喜欢的那种极简主义和现代主义