3 . May 19 marks the 12th China Tourism Day.Chinaculture.org will hold a 24-hour lives-tream(直播)event，taking worldwide audiences on a virtual journey throughout the country.

Take an online tour of the “Panda Kingdom” in Sichuan

Wolong National Nature Reserve(保护区)，known as the “Panda Kingdom” lies in the high mountains of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province. It’s a national overall nature reserve that mainly protects rare wildlife and forests.

Watch LIVE: 9 am, May 19

Discover a China“Beyond Your Imagination”

With more than 5,000 years of history?9.6 million square kilometers of land area and rich resources，China has an amazing amount to offer. You can find amazing natural land scapes(风景)and various lifestyles，as well as mouthwatering food. Discover the real China here.

Watch LIVE: 1 pm， May 19

Best places to visit in China

From the Forbidden City in Beijing to the City Wall in Xi5an northwest China’s Shaanxi Province，from the mausoleum of Ming Dynasty(1368-1644)emperor Zhu Yuanzhang in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province，to the Shapotou scenic spot in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and the beautiful Qinghai Lake in northwest China’s Qinghai Province...Where do you think is the best place to travel?

Watch LIVE: 8 pm May 19

4 . Piccolo Coro “Mariele Ventre” dell’Antoniano, a celebrated children’s choir from Italy, has toured China during the New Year season for the past five years.

Though the choir will not be able to enter the country this year because of the pandemic, their music will be presented by the Shanghai Children’s Art Theater (SHCAT) with the help of high-fidelity imaging transmission and hologram technology.

Considered a national treasure in Italy, the choir is well-known around the world and is a Good Will Ambassador for UNICEF.

While the choir will be singing in Italy, high-fidelity imaging transmission and hologram technology will help the singers to interact with its sister choir, Hydrangea Choir, in Shanghai, where six concerts will take place from Dec 31 to Jan 3, 2021.

“For the past five years, the songs of the Antoniano choir have been a regular part of the New Year celebration for many audiences in China,” said Liang Xiaoxia, general manager of SHCAT.

“This year, although they cannot come, we still hope to keep the experience alive, and hope that the voices of these children can bring some consolation and inspire more confidence in the face of adversity.”

5 . Art and Craft Projects for Kids

Art museum activities are a great way to encourage children to explore art and express their own creativity. Some museums have activity packs for young visitors; be sure to ask. Not only are great artworks inspiring, but they also teach children that there are many different ways to express creativity.

Instructions for art museum activities:

Before going to the museum, explore what you may see when you go. Most museums have websites with a wealth of information on art museum activity ideas. The Smithsonian has a program called Student Artworks: Artful Connections for seventh graders. There are so many great resources!

Art museums offer educational programs for children!

The Philadelphia Museums of Art offers fun, free worksheets. The National Gallery of Art has made digital images of its collections available to view and download.

The Guggenheim has made 200 art books available for download!

Visit the Smithsonian and try their art museum activities for kids without leaving the house.

Try these art museum activities for kids:

Take your child to the art museum. First, walk around and look at the artwork. Talk about the different artists. What type of art did they create? What did they use to make their creations? Are they realistic or abstract? What colors did they use?

If you don’t live near an art museum, you can take a trip to the Louvre through their unbelievable virtual online tour. Have your child choose a piece of art that speaks to them. Ask why he chose that piece of art. How does it make him feel? Have your child sit in front of that artwork and draw it. Have your child write or tell a story about his art.

A group of homeless children in India publish a newspaper telling about     1     (they) own lives.

It is called Balaknama,     2     means “children’s voice”. It is written    3     children up to 19 years old. And about 10, 000 people read it.

The children write about poverty, child labor, underage marriages and drugs. A homeless girl    4     (name) Shanno helps edit the paper.

The newspaper has 70 reporters in several states and 14 in the capital. All of the reporters,     5     (editor) and managers are homeless children. Many of their parents are jobless and cannot read or write. The children now earn money,     6     many of them attend classes online that may help them find a job.

The newspaper     7     (publish) every month. It has eight pages. It    8     (change) the lives of many of the children who publish it since it was created, and the children who have been working for it hope     9     (improve) the lives of thousands of others.

Non-governmental organizations and charity groups support the newspaper. The newspaper costs about three cents. That is     10     (little) than the price of a small cup of tea in India. But the small cost gives the children hope that they will some day have a home and a job.

10 . Concerns have existed long about what’s gone wrong in modern societies. Many scholars explain growing gaps between the haves and the have-nots as partly a by-product of living in large, urban populations. The bigger the crowd, from this perspective, the greater the distance is between the wealthy and those left wanting.

In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow challenge the assumption that bigger societies surely produce a range of inequalities. Using examples from past societies, the pair also rejects the popular idea that social development occurred in stages.

Such stages, according to conventional wisdom, began with humans living in small hunter-gatherer bands where everyone was on equal footing. Then an agricultural revolution (变革) about 12, 000 years ago fueled population growth and the appearance of tribes (部落) and eventually states.

This assumption makes no sense to Graeber and Wengrow. Their research, which extends for 526 pages, paints a more hopeful picture of social life over the last 30, 000 to 40, 000 years. Hunter-gatherers have a long history of changing social systems from one season to the next, the authors write. About a century ago, researchers observed that native populations in North America and elsewhere often operated in small, mobile groups for part of the year and formed large, settled communities the rest of the year. For example, each winter, Canada’s Northwest Coast Kwakiutl hunter-gatherers built wooden structures while in summers, they separated, and fished along the coast in less formal social ranks.

Social flexibility and experimentation, rather than a revolutionary shift, also characterized ancient transitions (转变) to agriculture, Graeber and Wengrow write. Middle Eastern village sites now indicate that the domestication (驯化) of crops occurred on and off from around 12, 000 to 9, 000 years ago. Ancient Fertile Crescent communities regularly gave farming a go while still hunting, gathering, fishing, and trading. Early people were in no rush to treat land as private property or to form political systems headed by kings, the authors conclude.