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Beijing Olympic – Lukyanenko launches into Men’s Pole Vault final

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Russian Evgeny Lukyanenko led a strong field through the Olympic Men’s Pole Vault qualifying round on August 20, at the National Stadium.

Lukyanenko directly chose the mark of 5.55m, and cleared it at the first attempt. Once again he vaulted past 5.65m comfortably with a solo attempt.

His compatriot Igor Pavlov is also ranked at the top. He chose to clear 5.45m first, and then skipped 5.55m to cleared 5.65m with one attempt.

Leonid Andreev from Uzbekistan, Jerome Clavier from France, Raphael Holzdeppe from Germany, Denys Yurchenko from Ukraine and Przemyslaw Czerwinski of Poland tied in rank two clearing 5.65m with one miss in two trials.

German Danny Ecker and Derek Miles from the United States qualified in third rank, also passing 5.65m but with more misses.

A total of thirteen athletes will compete in the Men’s Pole Vault final, scheduled at 7:55 p.m. (UTC/GMT +8) on August 22 at the National Stadium.

(Source: en.beijing2008.cn)

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China Travel – Former site of Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Revolutionary Base

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

The former site of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Revolutionary Base lies on No 62 Zhongyuan Road in the city of Xinxian County (formerly Xinji Town), Henan Province.

Originally, a rich landlord’s family residence stood at the site with seven Chinese buildings containing more than 60 rooms. In 1913 and 1932 respectively, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Provincial Party Committee were quartered there.

With developments and expansion, by April 1930, the Hubei-Henan Border Revolutionary Base, the Southeast Henan Revolutionary Base and the Western Anhui Revolutionary Base — all established in November 1927 in the Dabie Mountains — joined together to form the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Revolutionary Base. In 1931, the Red Army occupied Xinji Town of the Xinxian County becoming the political, economic and cultural center of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Revolutionary Base.

In May 1931, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Branch of the Central Committee of the CPC and the Revolutionary Military Commission were founded in Xinji Town. In July of the same year, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Provincial Workers’ and Peasants’ Democratic Government was set up in the second Soviet Congress of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Region in Xinji Town. In November, the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army was founded, and in January 1932, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Provincial Party Committee took shape. The Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Branch of the Central Committee of the CPC and the Military Commission remained in Xinji Town for one year and four months until the defeat of the fourth anti-encirclement struggle of January 1932 when they left the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Base with the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army.

The former site of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Revolutionary Base has been well preserved. The military commission office, the old residence of Xu Xiangqian, the Provincial Party Committee and its office, confidential offices of the Branch and Provincial Party Committee, including the Women’s Department of the Provincial Party Committee, as well as other offices, have all been well maintained.

(Source: chinaculture.org)

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Chinese Culture – Lhasa’s Potala Palace(2)

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

The Red Palace is the highest and the largest. In the middle, there is a concave balcony belt running through the upper and lower parts, along with many gilded copper-tile roofed small halls on the flat-top, which enrich the composition of the whole palace and naturally become the composition center commanding the whole situation. A dark brown wall belt runs horizontally on the upper end of the whole palace, making the outline of the structure more distinct, echoing the Red Palace in color. Below the dark brown wall belt of the Red Palace is a white wall belt echoing the wall surface of the White Palace. The structure is in tacit agreement with the chevron. The middle part of the front edge, set back a bit along with the hill, is the highest point of the structure right at the peak of the hill. The outer wall is inlaid with stones, its surface clearly inclined and appearing natural and steady. All these are close to the composition texture of natural hill stones. There is no distinct demarcation between the footing of the structures and the hill, man’s work and nature being in harmony and tacit agreement.

Two rows of blank windows are added to the stone walls in the lower part, under which there is a 20-meter-high wall surface that exaggerates the height of the structure. On the dark brown wall belt there are many gilded copper plates. The chin-chuang, golden treasure bottles, and golden lotus on top of the wall extend into the sky and, together with the gilded roof, glow with charming radiance under the foil of the blue sky, white clouds and snow-clad mountain. From the bottom up, the way of treatment moves from coarse to fine, from simple to complex, from solid to charming and from monotonous to rich; the color goes from plain to colorful. Together, this naturally diverts people’s sight line to the heights, making the structure loftier and more imposing.

The majestic, brilliant, magnificent and uninhibited Potala Palace has a strong artistic appeal and is an architectural art treasure that can be shown off to the world.

（Source: chinaculture.org

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