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A glimpse of the week (7.9-7.13)
From:english.eastday.com  |  2018-07-15 15:26

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A press release for the 2018 SYC Shanghai Cup and Nacra 17 Asian Championship, an event jointly supported by World Sailing, the Chinese Yachting Association, the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau and the Hongkou District People's Government, was held on the afternoon of July 9 at the Hyatt On The Bund.

|A press release for the 2018 SYC Shanghai Cup and Nacra 17 Asian Championship, an event jointly supported by World Sailing, the Chinese Yachting Association, the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau and the Hongkou District People's Government, was held on the afternoon of July 9 at the Hyatt On The Bund.[!--empirenews.page--]|On the morning of June 9, the enrollment for the Visiting Program for Young Sinologists, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and supported by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, was held in Shanghai.[!--empirenews.page--]|In 1989, an illiterate widow opened up her first noodle shop in the city of Guiyang, China. She served her fairly simple noodles mixed with her own recipe of chili sauce, and almost overnight gained a reputation for her delicious meals. Her name is Tao Huabi, though the locals nicknamed her Lao Gan Ma, which in English translates to “Old Godmother”, a name she earned for her kind and motherly demeanor.[!--empirenews.page--]|The 2018-2019 Shanghai Grand Theatre performance season, themed “Dream beyond the stage”, began recently, featuring as many as 149 operas, ballets, symphonies, dramas and traditional operas, staging almost 300 performances. There will be productions with Chinese revolutionary cultural elements that celebrate the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening up, ones manifesting south Yangtze River culture such as traditional Chinese folk music and Kunqu Opera, and stage dramas that present the Belt and Road cultures.[!--empirenews.page--]|Last Tuesday, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk announced plans to build a Tesla manufacturing plant in Shanghai, China. This announcement comes after approximately a year of negotiations with the Chinese government, who agreed to allow the new auto plant to be fully owned and operated by the company itself. [!--empirenews.page--]|The classic dragon-shaped ship on the Huangpu was formally put back into operation under the name of No. 1 Sightseeing Cruise Ship as it departed from Qinhuangdao Road Cruise Dock in Yangpu District last night at 7pm.