Sentences with phrase «first visited china»

When the prodigious Miami collectors Don and Mera Rubell first visited China, in 2001, they found the artists they met fascinating, but they were frankly unimpressed by the art itself.

Fifteen years ago, when Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, first visited China, the swath of land across from Shanghai's historic waterfront, the Bund, just lay there.

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A visit to the U.S. opened his eyes to the possibilities of the internet, and in 1995 he founded business directory China Yellowpages, widely credited as China's first web - based company.

Three UCLA men's basketball players were arrested in China for shoplifting on Tuesday, media reports said, a day before U.S. President Donald Trump landed there on his first official visit.

The White House insists that there has been no cancellation of a visit to China by Jared and Ivanka because no visit was formally scheduled in the first place.

China and Singapore, meanwhile, established official relations in 1990 — although the elder Lee first visited the East Asian giant in 1976 and met every Chinese Communist Party leader from Mao Zedong to current President Xi Jinping.

In a show of the importance China puts on Trump's first official visit, Thursday's welcoming ceremony outside Beijing's Great Hall of the People overlooking Tiananmen Square was broadcast live on state television — unprecedented treatment for a visiting leader.

THE recent visit of the President of China Jiang Zemin to Sydney was another positive step forward in Western Australia's bid to be the first supplier of liquefied natural gas to China.

Peter Miller became the first Lloyd's chairman to visit China.

And she talked about how much China has changed since she first visited in 1982 («very few automobiles,» «no big skyscrapers.»)

This was the first time a British leader made an official trip to China since the 2016 Brexit referendum, but it was also a «return visit» following President Xi Jinping's grand reception in London in October 2015.

So far as is known this will be Ma's first visit to Israel although he has previously met with Netanyahu in March 2017 when the Israeli prime minister visited China and tried to persuade him to invest in Israel.

In China, French president Emmanuel Macron has arrived in the northwestern historic city of Xi'an for his first official visit to China.

Trudeau's visit to China next week is an encouraging and an important first step.

In China, state - run newspaper Global Times is reporting that President Trump can expect a «State visit - plus experience» when he arrives in Beijing for his first official visit to China on November 8.

Although the region was visited by traders from China for centuries, the first main Chinese influx came in 1820s, as immigrants worked as construction workers on the building of Singapore, and the second wave of laborers came in the 1840s to work the tin mines.

One of my first memories of Fish Flavored Eggplant was when Brett and I took a cooking class last year during our visit to China.

Rodale Institute's researchers first visited Nanjing, China.

«Your Excellency, you are the first Ghanaian leader to visit China since your new government took office.

Available information indicates that, this particular visit is the first of its kind as far as independence anniversary celebration by Ghanaian students in Central China is concerned.

The MOU was signed in Beijing, China on Wednesday June 21, 2017, on the sidelines of the four - day official visit of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to China, the first by a high level government official since the New Patriotic Party took office in January 2017.

Tiangong - 1 is China's first space station; it launched in 2011 and was visited twice by taikonauts (Chinese astronauts).

On a visit to China a few years back, I asked a local official about pollution controls after enjoying my first sour, gritty taste of the country's air.

Through an arrangement facilitated by two nongovernmental organizations in North Korea and China with help from journalist Richard Stone at Science, Hammond and his colleague Clive Oppenheimer became the first Western scientists to visit the DPRK's volcano observatory, and a historic partnership was launched.

Evans's first extended research experience in China was in 1996 when he worked for a year as a visiting scholar at BUCT.

They tracked how many people visited Apple Stores in China over the first quarter, when Apple's Chinese revenues are known.

BEIJING — Visiting China for the first time last week, Europe's top research official, Máire Geoghegan - Quinn, admitted that she was bowled over by how quickly the rising power is muscling up its R&D.

According to statistics compiled by iResearch, Jiayuan.com is China's undisputed leader in online dating, ranking first in terms of daily visitors, time spent by users, pages viewed and number of visits in 2014.

Pattison entered China for the first time in 1980 and during his many return visits to China and neighboring countries, developed the intense interest in the rich history and culture of the region that is reflected in these books.

Nestorian missionaries from the Church of the East * are believed to have been the first to visit China around AD 635.

Brackmann has made regular visits to China since 1979; these first - hand glimpses of the country's development from the Cultural Revolution to the present give her descriptions of its cities, peoples and societal issues a compelling veracity.

My Rescue chow Kobi has the first AKC ThDX for a Chow and a TDIAOV and his predecessor China also had a TDIAOV title with over 250 hospital visits.

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Come meet the first pandas to arrive in the UK from China after 17 years, in 2011, and visit the new Meerkat plaza or experience the zoo in the night.

Inspiring the curious traveller to visit for the first time or to return, whether it is to experience India's assault on the senses, the riverine serenity of cruising on the Mekong or the Irrawaddy or take on the enervating and bustling cities of China.

With the latest official statistics from VisitBritain showing a record 54,000 visits from China to the UK in the first quarter of 2017 - up 27 per cent on the same period last year - Avis UK is now primed and ready to meet the demands of Chinese visitors.

Xi'an is one of my favorite cities I have visited and I absolutely had to include it in this China itinerary for first timers.

Currently he is unable to leave China and therefore we are developing his first major institutional survey in Britain virtually, and of course through regular studio visits.

Dugger was the founder of The Artists Liberation Front in 1971, and in 1972 was invited as part of a youth delegation to visit China during the closing phases of the Cultural revolution, thus becoming the first American artist to visit China since the 1949 revolution.

In 1965, Chase - Riboud traveled to the People's Republic of China with her first husband, French photographer Marc Eugène Riboud, as the first American woman invited to visit the country since its political revolution.

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing Opened in 2007 by Belgian art collector Baron Guy Ullens, and currently visited by more than 1 million people annually, the centre contains three large art galleries plus the first contemporary arts library in China.

The honor was presented during an exclusive preview for exhibition sponsors, VMFA leaders, and visiting Chinese dignitaries of Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China, which opens on November 18, 2017.

The work takes the form of an architectural intervention including sculptural floor objects and it combines elements of historical research around the first human journey into outer space as well as participatory conversations with more than 90inhabitants in Hangzhou, among them students of the China Academy of Art of Hangzhou where the artist is presently a visiting artist.

With the first library dedicated to post 1950s arts in China and four large galleries, including the signature Great Hall, the Central Gallery, the Nave, and the Long Gallery, the center is annually visited by upwards of one million people.

Chinese New Year heralds the start of China Dream, a nine - month season of cultural commissions from contemporary Chinese artists, all coinciding with the famous Terracotta Warriors» first European visit in a generation.

In China is Near, Kozloff explored the China accessible to her, visiting the Chinatowns of Mott Street, Manhattan; Main Street, Flushing, Queens; 8th Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn; Webster Street, Oakland; and Grant Avenue, San Francisco — all destinations on the twenty - first century Silk Route.

The artist has also created a new large - scale sculpture titled China Piled Up, inspired by his first visit to China, specially for the exhibition.

Following the ceremony, both companies met with United States Secretary of State John Kerry during his first official state visit to the People's Republic of China.

The excessive heat spurred an increase in hospital visits because of heat - related illness, and the city was under a «red alert» — its first this year, and the 13th since China launched a heat alert system a decade ago.