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Dec 1, 2024 | 
shine.cn | Yao Minji
Above: Shanghai's new "twin tower," the Bank of China Financial Center, started construction in 2021 in the city's Lingang Special Area. Below: The famous Lujiazui financial district lies directly across the Huangpu River from the Bund.
Global investors in Shanghai are quietly treasure-hunting in China's undervalued capital markets – beginning with the high-yield bonds last year and, more recently, turning their attention to equities.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
shine.cn | Yao Minji
Sergei Nakariakov, dubbed "the Paganini of the trumpet" since the age of 13, still inspires contemporary composers to write incredibly demanding pieces especially for him. Recently, the musician brought a diverse program to Shanghai and Chengdu, collaborating with pianist Maria Meerovitch, with a promise to return again next year.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
shine.cn | Yao Minji
The UAE Pavilion at the 7th China International Import Expo.
The United Arab Emirates may come as a surprise visitor to the 7th China International Import Expo's new low-altitude economy zone, thanks to agreements with electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft makers.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
shine.cn | Yao Minji
Singapore companies are eyeing high-quality growth opportunities in China while innovating in the increasingly sophisticated market to remain competitive, according to Kok Ping Soon, CEO of the Singapore Business Federation. On Wednesday, Kok oversaw 15 memorandums of understanding valued at over US$45 million signed at the 7th Singapore-China Trade and Investment Forum, on the sidelines of the 7th China International Import Expo.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
shine.cn | Yao Minji
Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča found "lots of sopranos" among the "young and energetic" Chinese classical music fans, as she made her Shanghai debut on a typhoon night over the weekend. "I haven't heard so many screaming audiences in Europe in the recent years, that makes us feel very special," she said. "Chinese people are very open and very colorful. "Music unites.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
shine.cn | Yao Minji
Flutist Feng Tianshi
Flutist Feng Tianshi was the busiest on stage during the global premiere of "Nine Odes," switching between six different varieties of flutes. Each flute had a unique role in the pieces, singing, lamenting, and conversing with the erhu (a two-stringed Chinese instrument) and the orchestra's Western instruments.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
shine.cn | Yao Minji |Hu Jun |Zhong Youyang
Brian Linden, since his first China visit in 1984, felt like he had come home, especially in the rural villages. Now, he sees more opportunities and hopes to make the world better understand China through the rural areas.
Shot by Hu Jun. Edited by Zhong Youyang. Reported by Yao Minji. Subtitles by Zhong Youyang, Yao Minji.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
shine.cn | Yao Minji
Directed by Yao Minji. Shot by Zhou Shengjie, Sun Chao. Edited by Gao Ceng. Reported by Yao Minji. Subtitles by Yao Minji.
On a scorching June afternoon, Clarisse Le Guernic, 28, climbed a steep hill at Nihewan as her guide, Professor Wei Qi, 83, explained how her French compatriot Émile Licent would have taken the same route exactly 100 years earlier. Nihewan Basin, literally "muddy water bay," is a remote and rich source of early Pleistocene Paleolithic sites in northern China's Hebei Province.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
shine.cn | Yao Minji
"One thing about a science: it works."– Chad Oliver, "The Imperfect Machine" (1948)Filmmaker Jason Carman invited Neo, a humanoid under development by Norway's 1X Technologies, to his San Francisco apartment, under the aegis of robotics engineers from the company. The experience was an eye-opener. During the 12-minute docu-series video, "I Lived with a Humanoid for 48 hours," the 1.6-meter, 30-kilo robot clad in a gray, white and black suit responded to verbal requests.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
shine.cn | Yao Minji
German baritone Matthias Georne is artist-in-residence for the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's new season.
Conductor Cao Peng, at 99 years old, appeared on stage in a wheelchair to conduct the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in the famously uplifting "Light Cavalry Overture" by Franz von Suppe. "It's been a while since I came back to the symphony orchestra, and they are much better than we were back then," Cao said earlier at a rehearsal.
