Caught on camera
The anniversary beheld barbecue of the Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Presence and Presentation, will aught in on account photography this year.
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Works of top lensmen from above the apple will go on affectation in Lianzhou, Guangdong province, from Dec 5 to 10.
Bao Kun from the China Photographers Association hopes the anniversary will bake an absorption in account photography and accentuate its cogent actual role.
Highlights cover attendant exhibitions of Don Mccullin, the internationally-regarded British war photography announcer and photos taken by acclaimed Chinese columnist He Yanguang, whose works are aggregate beneath the theme, How Far Can a Photographer Go.
Slides shows and seminars will run alongside exhibitions of pictures taken by added than 100 photographers from at atomic 10 countries worldwide.
Jewelry fair
The China International Jewelry Fair 2009 kicked off on Thursday with added than 600 adornment companies from 15 countries and regions.
The five-day accident includes the Donghai Crystal Jewelry Show, the 2009 Jewelry Night and the Kin Hing Lee Imperial Jadeite Tour.
Marc Brauner, CEO of the International Gemological Institute, and John Pollard, adviser from the Gem and Jewelry Industry from the United States will allocution about the access of the Internet on the industry. Master Sang Ki Kim from South Korea will allocution about appraising preciousstones and added adored stones.
The fair is on at the International Exhibition Center, Beijing.
Confucius' ancestors tree
The Confucius Family Genealogy, China's No 1 ancestry project, is now accessible afterwards 10 years of updating. It is accessible online at jiapu.com, as allotment of the celebrations of Confucius' 2,560th altogether this year.
More than 1.9 actor of Confucius' descendents accept been registered in the Confucius Family Genealogy' catalog, including about 200,000 women, who were afar from the ancestors ancestry for added than 2,500 years.
Confucius' descendents are broadcast all over the world, with added than 10,000 in added Asian countries.
