Category: City Guide

The Second Bird’s Nest Ice and Snow Season will be held at the National Stadium on December 15. The projects will focus on “being available to see, to play and to participate.” Considering the location of the home field and warm-up field at the Bird’s Nest, and the filming, the activities are set as follows:

Taobao, China’s largest consumer-oriented shopping site, will help smaller vendors by providing them with individualized tools as the platform bids to lure more online shoppers.淘宝，中国最大的面向消费者的购物网站，将为小供应商提供诸如交易平台比价等的个性化工具，帮助它们吸引更多网络消费者。

A high-profile case involving two Internet giants in China will be heard in the country's top court on Tuesday. The court will also open the trial using multimedia in real time, by streaming the proceedings online.

For a city that gave divorce a bad name through its movie depiction of the ultimate ugly bust-up, Kramer vs. Kramer, the New York hearing of Murdoch vs. Murdoch went remarkably smoothly. There were no histrionics and no last-minute wrangles.
从《克莱默夫妇》一类电影对离婚的描绘中，我们可以看出纽约这座城市对离婚这种丑恶的最终决裂的嫌恶。然而默多克夫妇在纽约法院的离婚程序似乎格外顺利。没有做作的掩饰，也没有最后一分钟的博弈。

【汉语】语言的故事（一）
时间: 11月29日(星期五) 20:00 – 21:00
主讲老师: 小麦（点击关注老师的沪江主页>>>）
公开课地点: Hujiang Chinese（点击下载CCTALK）

China will need to spend nearly 5 trillion yuan, or $817 billion, to fight air pollution, according to Fang Li, spokesman of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Environmental Protection. Fang's startling estimate came on Sept. 23 as he released the Chinese capital's antipollution blueprint, which promises significant improvements in air quality by 2017.
北京市环保局发言人方力透露，中国为治理大气污染将投近5万亿人民币（折合美元8170亿）。9月23日方力在“北京市清洁空气行动计划”新闻发布会上发表了这一估算数字，该计划承诺到2017年时，使空气质量得到显著改善。

A best man from central China whose iPhone was stolen after a stag night was “stunned” when the thief posted him a handwritten list of more than 1,000 contacts stored on the device.
在中国中部的一个城市，一个小伙子在参加单身派对时iPhone被偷了，但使他“震惊”的是，小偷居然把他电话里存的1000多个联系人的号码全部手抄了一遍，然后给他寄了回去。

China has approved a plan to preserve key parts of the Great Wall of Qi in eastern Shandong Province, a world heritage site and the predecessor of the more famous Great Wall in northern China, officials said on Thursday.政府官员周四表示，中国已经通过了一项保护齐长城在山东省东部主要部分的计划。齐长城是一处世界遗产，也是中国北方比较有名的长城的前身。

Over 50,000 people were mobilized Tuesday to clear snow in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, after the worst snowstorm in 50 years hit the city for 60 hours.