This Day, That Year
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
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On March 20, 1954, the passenger liner Minzhong was launched into the Yangtze River. As the then largest home-built liner, the four-floor ship was designed to accommodate 947 people.
It had a wide range of facilities to enhance passenger enjoyment.
The Yangtze cruise industry took off in the 1980s, boosted by the river’s slow current, which makes for easy navigation, and the magnificent landscape that flanks the waterway.
An item from March 7, 1986, in Chi- na Daily showed luxury ship The Great Wall arriving in Shanghai after a trial voyage from Chongqing.
It took tourists on trips down the Yangtze River, according to the Great Yangtze Travel Company, the operator of a joint venture of two Shanghai companies and a Hong Kong company.
The Chinese cruise industry has been growing rapidly in recent years. Passengers made 4.89 million trips on cruise liners last year, compared with about 10,000 a decade earlier, according to the China Cruise and Yacht Industry Association.
The country aims to become the Asia-Pacific region’s largest cruise market by 2020, according to plans provided by the Ministry of Transport.
The ministry identified Northeast and Southeast Asia and the Taiwan Straits as some of the main cruise areas for the industry by 2020.
According to the Cruise Lines International Association, by 2025, the number of Chinese travelers who will have experienced cruise trips is expected to grow to 8 to 10 million.
The growing capacity of China’s cruise market has also driven global players to ramp up their investment.
Last year, China State Shipbuilding Corp, Carnival Corp and Fincantieri started a project to build two 135,500-metric-ton Vista-class cruise ships. The project marks the first time China will build a large, advanced cruise ship domestically.
The contracted price of each ship is $770 million. The first of the vessels is scheduled to be delivered in September 2023; the second will follow in 2024.
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section at Badaling, a number of other landmarks joined the global greening, including the Canton Tower in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, the Qujing 218 tower in Yunnan province and the Culture and Arts Center in Suzhou, Jiangsu province. St Patrick’s Day takes place each year on March 17 with a variety of festivals held across the globe celebrating Irish culture with parades, special food, music, dancing and a whole lot of green.
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March 28-30, 7:15 pm Shanghai Grand Theater’s Lyric Theater
The multimedia music drama is imbued with director Meng Jinghui’s black humor and postmodern sarcasm.
True love is like ageless amber formed eons ago. In a modern metropolis teeming with sheer frustration and insolent hypocrisy, can love be clear and crystal?
When they meet for the first time, Gao Yuan believes he lures Xiao You into love, but it is more complicated than that. The attractive girl works as an interpreter at a museum of nature, introducing the history of dinosaurs to enthralled visitors.
Under her calm exterior is hidden a fiery passion and an untold secret.
Gao is an insolent, skeptical guy who believes in nothing while Xiao is a willful girl who desires to find a miracle in her life. Neither one speaks what goes on in his or her mind frankly.
They torment each other, but still love each other at the same time.
Over the course of time, the two become attached to each other. The love story unfolds against the hustle and bustle of urban life. March 21-23, 7:30 pm 9 Theater, Beijing Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth March are the four “little women” growing up in New England during the American Civil War. The sisters share everything — joy and pain, love and secrets. But the four girls could not be more different.
Meg, the oldest, is the sensible one. Jo is funny and mischievous. Beth is the shy, dreamy one, while Amy is pretty and artistic.
Follow the girls as they grow into young women, and share the events in their lives: Meg’s first dance; Amy’s punishment in school; their father’s return from the war; Jo’s anger with her sisters when her precious diary is burned; a family wedding; and Beth’s tragic illness.
Their appealing story is one of the most popular books ever written. Siam Songkran Music Festival is a brainchild of Thailand’s premiere festival organizers.
Siam Songkram aims to provide an all-around, interactive experience for attendees. Dance to your heart’s content across not one, but two state of the art stages.
Those attending can also partake in culture-based workshops.
It is not often that you’ll get the chance to learn how to cook at a rave.
Last but not least, is a unique food and creative market section that will allow festivalgoers the chance to try out an array of exquisite Thai delicacies while shopping for vintage trinkets.
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April 1, 8 pm
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Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen, known professionally as MØ, is a Danish singer, songwriter and record producer.
Born in the village of Ubberud, MØ has often been compared with leading electropop artists such as Grimes and Twin Shadow.
Besides being the initials of her middle and last name, the word mø means “maiden” in Danish.
Her debut studio album, No Mythologies to Follow, was released in March 2014.
MØ collaborated with Australian rapper Iggy Azalea on the 2014 single Beg for It, which peaked at No 27 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The following year, MØ was featured on Major Lazer and DJ Snake’s single Lean On, which conquered the international charts, including a No 1 in Australia, No 2 in the United Kingdom and No 4 in the United States.
The music video also gained more than 2.5 billion views on social media.
MØ was featured on Snakehips’ single Don’t Leave, and another Major Lazer single Cold Water alongside Canadian singer Justin Bieber which debuted at No 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Her 2016 single Final Song reached the top 5 in Denmark, and the top 20 in Australia, Norway and the UK.
March 23, 7:30 pm The Zuk Bar, Shanghai FC Club welcomes the world’s business professionals, including expatriates and people that have had experience abroad or want to increase their connections.
With more than 200 events per year, over 25,000 guests are welcomed at FC Club events annually.
Leaders from industry, banking, finance and hi-tech will attend as will those from Fortune 500 companies.