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Updated: 2014-06-13 10:51
(China Daily USA)
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Richmond Hill TOURISM BOOST Xiong Shanhua (third from left), deputy director-general of the China National Tourism Administration, alongside Fang Li, the Chinese consul general in Toronto, (to Xiong's right); Senator Victor Oh (to Xiong's left); MP Costas Menegakis (fi fth from right), MPP Reza Moridi (to Fang's right), and China National Tourist Office in Toronto director Xu Yan (right), pose at the 2014 Beautiful China - Rediscover the Silk Road tourism promotional event at the Sheraton Parkway Hotel in Richmond Hill on June 6. In 2013, more than 680,000 Canadians visited China. Photos by Li Na / China Daily |
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Richmond Hill DANCING FOR SILK ROAD Dancers perform the Feitian (Flying Apsaras) dance at the 2014 Beautiful China - Rediscover the Silk Road tourism promotion event. Images of Feitian can be found in the murals of Dunhung Grottos in Gansu province on the ancient Silk Road in China. |
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Richmond Hill CHINA ATTRACTION Evan Chan (right), the representative of Henan Tourism: Where China Began, chats with two visitors from the Indian Canadian travel agency at the 2014 Beautiful China - Rediscover the Silk Road tourism promotion event at the Sheraton Parkway Hotel in Richmond Hill on June 6. A China tourism delegation from Shaanxi, Ningxia, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Beijing and Shanghai took part in the event. |
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Toronto SHARING SCRIPTURES Buddhist delegates from Jiangsu province, China, read Buddhist scriptures at the first Canada-China Buddhist Culture Festival held at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto on June 7. |
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Toronto GRAND OPENING Master Rev. Sing Hung (center), the 91-year-old founder of the Buddhist Association of Canada and Cham Shan Temple, was joined by Jason T. Kenney (to Sing's right), Canada's minister for multiculturalism and minister of employment and social development, Fang Li, the Chinese consul general in Toronto (to Jason's right), and Rev. Dayi Shi (sixth from left), president of the Buddhist Association of Canada, at a ribbon cutting for the opening ceremony of the first Canada-China Buddhist Culture Festival, held in the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto on June 7. |
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Toronto STUDYING HISTORY Jason T. Kenney (second from left), Canada's minister for multiculturalism and minister of employment and social development, was joined by Fang Li, the Chinese consul general in Toronto (left); Rev. Dayi Shi (to Fang's left), president of the Buddhist Association of Canada, as they study the celadon incense burner from the Yuan Dynasty at the first Canada-China Buddhist Culture Festival, held at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto on June 7. |
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Toronto DRY INK PAINTING Artist Guan Suisheng (second from left) introduces his Chinese dry ink painting at an exhibition of his work held on June 6 in Toronto. From the left: Kevin Zhang, senior officer at Bank of China (Canada); Guan; Sandra Tam, senior business development officer of the economic development department in Markham; Fang Li, the Chinese consul general in Toronto. |
(China Daily USA 06/13/2014 page13)
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