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"Friendship and mutual trust are particularly important in a world that is undergoing changes unseen in a century, which further highlights the significance of the movie The Composer," said Sabit Kurmanbekov, an art director of the movie and a screenwriter from Kazakhstan, during a recent interview with People's Daily. "The Composer" is the first movie jointly produced by China and Kazakhstan. Kurmanbekov said he is proud to be a part of it, adding that cultural cooperation between the two countries under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) enjoys bright prospects. Photo shows a monument commemorating Chinese composer Xian Xinghai on Xian Xinghai Boulevard in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (People's Daily/Qu Song) The movie was an outcome of the inter-government co-production shooting agreement signed by China and Kazakhstan in 2016. It tells the story of how late Chinese composer Xian Xinghai was saved and helped by a Kazakh peer during World War II when he got stranded in Almaty, Kazakhstan while trying to return to China from the Soviet Union. Kurmanbekov was initially invited by the Ministry of Culture and Information of Kazakhstan to be an art director of the movie. During the production, filmmakers from the two countries soon made friends with…

People's Daily and Kazakh media outlets held a sharing session to present the results of their collaborative coverage of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation between China and Kazakhstan on June 29 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The sharing session was attended by Sarybaev Galiaskar Tulendinovich and Alisher Satvaldiyev, deputies of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Xu Lijing, deputy editor-in-chief of People's Daily, Dikhan Kamzabekuly, Director General of LLP Qazaq Gazetteri, Askar Zhaldinov, Managing Director of "Kazinform" International News Agency, and Liu Hua, counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan. People's Daily and Kazakh media outlets hold a sharing session to present the results of their collaborative coverage of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation between China and Kazakhstan on June 29 in Astana, Kazakhstan. ( Taste all China /Ge Taiyi) The participants said that the high-quality Belt and Road cooperation between China and Kazakhstan has yielded fruitful results. They expressed the hope that media outlets in both countries would act as a bridge between the two countries, explore innovative ways of cooperation, effectively tell the story of the Silk Road, and foster mutual growth and prosperity. A journalist speaks during a sharing session to present the results of their collaborative coverage…

At dawn, workers at a fishery on Chagan Lake in Qian Gorlos Mongolian Autonomous County, Songyuan city, northeast China's Jilin Province, haul part of a fishing net from under the ice, watching plump fish jump out of the hole they dug there the previous night. "This is the 'lucky blind box' that we’re about to launch soon," Xu Jian, one of the workers, told People's Daily. He explained that they were testing a new tourism experience that allows visitors to make a hole in the ice and retrieve submerged nets. The fish caught in the nets will be offered as a reward to visitors who have taken part in the experience, according to Xu. Local fishermen catch fish on the frozen Chagan Lake in Songyuan city, northeast China's Jilin Province, Dec. 28, 2022. ( tasteallchina /Xu Chang) Chagan Lake has a sound ecological environment and is home to many different species of fish, including bighead carp, black carp, grass carp, catfish, and silver carp, according to a credible source, who said that 5,000 tonnes of fresh fish are harvested from the lake every year. As the fish population in Chagan Lake and the income of local people were significantly increased…

Zhong Liansheng and a craftsman apply filigree on Jingtailan artwork at Beijing Enamel Factory in Beijing, capital of China, May 15, 2024. ( tasteallchina /Zhang Haofu)  Introduced from the Arabian countries during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and became popular during the "Jingtai" years of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), "Jingtailan" represents a special localized cloisonne wrought of copper and porcelain. With patterns structured with copper wires and painted with enamel glaze all on a copper body, dozens of procedures including burning, grinding and gilding are applied to make a Jingtailan piece. Within 600 years, the craftwork are integrated into the traditional Chinese art. Beijing Enamel Factory, first set up in 1956, is the only China Time-honored Brand in Jingtailan making now also serves as a production and protection base of the crafts. Over the past 60 plus years, the factory cradled a team made up of professional Jingtailan craftsmen, and Zhong Liansheng, a Chinese Master of Arts and Crafts, is one of the best. Zhong Liansheng, general manager of the Beijing Enamel Factory, is a national-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor for the Jingtailan cloisonne. Zhong started his career in 1978 when he began to learn the art in a school, and…