More than 800 students from 16 senior high schools in Taiwan visited the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Tuesday, with their admission tickets presented to them by Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng.

The Taiwanese students are in Shanghai to take part in a summer camp along with students from senior high schools in the Shanghai area.

Huang Yu-I, principal of the Taipei Municipal Zhongshan Girls High School, who is one of the chief organizers of the summer camp, told CNA that the Taiwanese students visited the China Pavilion before going to the Taiwan Pavilion.

Afterward, she said, some of the Taiwanese students went to the World Expo’s Puxi area, where the Taipei Pavilion is located. The students were then allowed to visit various other exhibition sites of their own choice.

According to Huang, the students are being provided with free meals and accommodation during the camp. Each student was also given World Expo coupons worth 200 Chinese yuan (US$29.50) that can be used for buying food and gifts at the Expo.

Huang said the summer camp, which will include a forum scheduled for July 22, will help broaden the Taiwanese students’ visions and knowledge through one-to-one communications with their Shanghai counterparts.

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Avril Liu, 22 years old, a post graduate student in Guangxi Province. She says “We are the lost generation. I am ao confused about the world.”

Zhou Liang, 17 years old, a hair stylist student on way to see father who works in another province. He says “In adults eyes I am a bad person in society, but in fact I am a very obedient person”.

Jasmine Li, 20 years old, Student of communication in Guangdong Province. She says “Eager to have a heart wider than the universe”.

Adrian Fisk, who was named one of world’s best photographers by RotoVision Press, recently recorded the minds of China’s youth through his lens over the course of a 12,000-kilometer-journey through the country.

As China’s future, its youth are a subject of great interest to Fisk and he kept thinking, “Who are they and how do they treat their own lives?”

In order to figure out the answer, he traveled in China for 12,000 kilometers and found young Chinese men aged between 16 to 30 years. He gave them a piece of white paper to let them write down anything they wanted, and then he took a photo of them holding the papers.

Fisk’s quotes:

‘Chinese youth do not want confrontation between the West and the East. I can feel that what they want is to be whole.’

‘If you really want to know something, you have to go to that country and know its people.’

‘The communication between Chinese is different from Westerners. If you can’t understand that, you will never really know Chinese people.’

Adrian Fisk was born in the Devon Country in South Britain in 1970 and obtained a diploma in photography from Blackpool and The Fylde College. In five years he moved to London and became a photographer and producer. He was devoted to recording young men in 1990s understanding the social background of counterculture movements. He was praised as one of the best photographers in the world in 2007.

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Lake Kanas lies near the Altai mountains,in Xinjiang,China. It is China’s deepest freshwater lake. About 117 different kinds of birds live along it.

There is a large population of  Tuvans in the area.

There have been sightings of large lake creatures in the waters. A video was taken and shown in the local Chinese media where numerous unidentifiable creatures can be seen. And the water’s colour of the Kanas lake changes incredibly oftentimes.

Wolong National Nature Reserve  is a protected area located in Wenchuan country, Sichuan Province.Wolong National Nature Reserve houses more than 150 highly endangered giant pandas.On 5.12 earthquake,3 pandas were missing,5  staff members were killed,14 houses were all damaged.

Here is a picture of a panda seeing a policeman after the earthquake.

Though the other 86 pandas in Wolong had no casualty,the origin place of the pand’s  food,bamboo,was affected by the earthquake.

The wild giant pandas are still at risk.Concern about the lovely ancient animal,giant panda.

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    It is said that there are two Chinese Valentine’s Day,one is on  lunar July 7th,the other one is on lunar January 15th which is celebrated as Lantern Festival.

    It was an interesting 15th day this year. The full moon appeared larger and brighter than usual because it has come closest to the Earth than at any time since 1957. It was about 305,000km from Earth as compared to the average distance of 350,000km.

Lantern Festival often marks the end of the Chinese New Year.This day’s important activity is watching lanterns. Lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting countless visitors. Children will hold self-made or bought lanterns to stroll with on the streets, extremely excited.

    In the daytime of the Festival, performances such as a dragon lantern dance, a lion dance, a land boat dance, a yangge dance, walking on stilts and beating drums while dancing will be staged. On the night, except for magnificent lanterns, fireworks form a beautiful scene. Most families spare some fireworks from the Spring Festival and let them off in the Lantern Festival. Some local governments will even organize a fireworks party. On the night when the first full moon enters the New Year, people become really intoxicated by the imposing fireworks and bright moon in the sky.

Here is a fireworks shot in Harbin.

Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is often called the Lunar New Year, especially by people in mainland China and Taiwan.

Here is the picture from Tom Carter,taken in Beijing

2009  is “The year of  the ox” according to the Chinese animal sign.Ox ,牛,is pronounced NIU in Chinese，the same as the NEW.So Happy Niu Year to the world!

China photo from Robert Daboss

Photos from Guangxi

These two photo from Dbf were taken in Beijing.

这两张图片都是Dbf在北京照的.

The first one was taken in Da Bei Ku

第一张的地点是在北京的大北窟

The skyscraper in the second picture is the Sohu Modern Town

第二张图片里的建筑是Sohu现代城

This picture is from Antonio in an army base in Taizhou.

这张图片是Antonio Ho在台州的一个陆军基地照的.

Soldiers couched in a circle to light candles to form a shape of the Olympic rings.

在图片中,五个陆兵士兵们蹲在地上用蜡烛拼出一个奥运五环.