Zhang Gaoli was reelected secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Saturday.
Zhang, born in November 1946, was elected to the post at the first plenary meeting of the 10th CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee held in the northern port city.
In 2007 he was appointed secretary of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee. He is also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
Zhang is a native of the city of Jinjiang in southeast China's Fujian province. He joined the CPC in 1973.
A senior Chinese general has for the first time officially confirmed that the country is building an aircraft carrier. According to experts and media reports, the vessel is the half-built Soviet warship Varyag, which China bought and is completing. The ship is not ready yet, Colonel General Chen Bingde, head of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) general staff said in an interview with Hong Kong Commercial Daily. His aide Lieutenant General Qi Jianguo said the ship, when it is ready, will serve as a floating training camp for Navy pilots. It will not be sent on missions to territorial waters of other countries "unlike some other nations do," the general said. While not officially confirmed, defense experts believe that the aircraft carrier is the multi-role Soviet Varyag. The ship was about 60-70 per cent complete when funding stopped in 1992 after the USSR collapsed. Ukraine, which took ownership, auctioned the vessel in the late 1990s, with the Chinese offering the highest bid of million. It was believed that Varyag would be examined by military engineers to copy technology and later sold to a private company to be used as an entertainment facility. This was what happened to two other Soviet aircraft carriers Kiev and Minsk, which China bought too. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Nudity in art and nude modeling were introduced into China almost one century ago. When famed Chinese painter Liu Haisu became the first to initiate a figure drawing course at a Shanghai art school in 1917, he immediately triggered public uproar and widespread controversy in regards to nude modeling. Since then, China has become much more open to nude modeling, especially when we think back on the 1928 slashing of a nude model by her father for posing for internationally renowned Chinese photographer Lang Jingshan who took the country's first artistic nude shot . However, even though the Chinese have gotten more at ease with the idea of modeling in the nude since 1928, it still remains quite the controversial career path to take in China. Every time some nude picture appears, the public nudity debate gets stirred up again and sometimes violence may even ensue. Some think that it's shameful and the models just get naked for the so-called sake of art to make easy-money and ...
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 1971 Born in Baoding, Hebei Province 1991 Graduated from Art Department of Hebei Science and Industry University Selected Exhibitions 2008 Cao Weihong – Solo Exhibition, Art Scene Classic, Shanghai 2007 Cao Weihong – Solo Exhibition, Art Scene China, Shanghai 2006 Cao Weihong – Solo Exhibition, Art Scene China, Shanghai Chinese Artists Group Exhibition, Art Scene China, Shanghai 2005 Chinese Artists Group Exhibition, Art Scene China, Shanghai Female Artists' Exhibition, Hebei Province 2004 Cao Weihong – Solo Exhibition, Art Scene China, Shanghai Contemporary Chinese Art Group Exhibition, Kunst Bunker, Munich, Germany Group Exhibition, Art Scene at the Westin, Shanghai 2003 Feminine Mystique – Solo Exhibition, Art Scene China, Shanghai 2002 Three Brothers and Sisters – Art Exhibition, Art Academy of Hebei Normal University, Hebei Province Exhibition of Hebei Artists' Paintings from Life, Gold Prize, H...
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