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Wuxing originally referred to the five major planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Mars, Venus), which were conceived as creating five forces of earthly life. This is why the word is composed of Chinese characters meaning "five" ( 五; wǔ) and "moving" ( 行; xíng ). "Moving" is shorthand for "planets", since the word for planets in Chinese ...
The flood acted as a scorched-earth defensive line in the Second Sino-Japanese War. There were three long-term strategic intents. Firstly, the flood in Henan safeguarded the Shaanxi section of the Longhai railway, the major northwest traffic where the Soviet Union sent their military supplies to the Chinese National Army from August 1937 to March 1941. Secondly, the inundated land and railway ...
This is a List of earthquakes in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. Earthquakes in the loess plateau where residents lived in yaodong caves tended to have big casualties, including the 1303 Hongdong and 1920 Haiyuan earthquakes. The most recent earthquake with a death toll of more than a thousand was the 2010 Yushu ...
Earth (South) represents the youth cycle, summer, the Indigenous race, and cedar medicine. Fire (East) represents the birth cycle, spring , the Asian race, and tobacco medicine. Wind/Air (North) represents the elder cycle, winter , the European race, and sweetgrass medicine.
China Post, officially the China Post Group Corporation, [3] is the national postal service corporation of the People's Republic of China. It is incorporated as a state-owned enterprise . China Post shares its office with the sub-ministry-level government agency State Post Bureau, which regulates the national postal industry.
Rammed earth. The ruins of a Han dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE) Chinese watchtower made of rammed earth in Dunhuang, Province of Gansu, China, at the eastern end of the Silk Road. Rammed earth is a technique for constructing foundations, floors, and walls using compacted natural raw materials such as earth, chalk, lime, or gravel. [1]
Earth observation satellite missions developed by the ESA as of 2019. Earth observation satellites are Earth-orbiting spacecraft with sensors used to collect imagery and measurements of the surface of the earth. These satellites are used to monitor short-term weather, long-term climate change, natural disasters.
The State Post Bureau is the government agency that regulates China Post, the postal service of the People's Republic of China. [1] [2] [3] The agency used to report to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and is now under the administration of the Ministry of Transport. [4] The bureau is headed by the Director-General.