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People across China enjoy intriguing cultural, recreational activities during National Day holiday

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People across China enjoy intriguing cultural, recreational activities during National Day holiday

2024-10-06 20:32 Last Updated At:21:07

People across China have been enjoying various intriguing cultural performances and exciting recreational activities during the week-long National Day holiday that started on Oct.1.

Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, opened an archaeological site of the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC-1046 BC) to the public during the holiday. The event offers the distribution of the Shang Dynasty relics and architectures, and relics display area, restoration demonstration area, touch area for visitors.

Meanwhile, flocks of extreme sports enthusiasts were deeply attracted by different high-altitude events, such as bungee jumping, via ferrata, and zip lining at the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon scenic area in Zhangjiajie City of central China's Hunan Province.

In Pingshan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province, the local government used an ancient town as a stage for live cultural performances, and visitors can also enjoy the ethnic Yi dance in the area.

Sheyang County of east China's Jiangsu Province set up a 100-meter-long scroll, which attracted many parents and children to paint and express their love and blessings to the motherland, and arranged cultural performance such as face-changing performance of Sichuan Opera, lion dancing, Huai Opera and acrobatic shows.

Linfen City of north China's Shanxi Province also actively promoted the low-altitude economy by opening five helicopter bases that provide aerial tours of major scenic spots such as Guangsheng Temple in Hongtong County, Yunqiu Mountain in Xiangning County, and Hukou Waterfall in Jixian County.

"It's my first time to take this helicopter. It means that now ordinary people can also take short trips in the sky. It's nice and shocking to see the whole landscape from a high place," said tourist Zhao Ke.

"Such way of traveling let me have a deeper understanding of the history and culture of Hongtong County and our natural scenery," said tourist Liu Hangrui.

People across China enjoy intriguing cultural, recreational activities during National Day holiday

People across China enjoy intriguing cultural, recreational activities during National Day holiday

The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Monday that a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has caused 220 suspected deaths, as health officials struggle to catch up with the pace of spread of the epidemic.

While 101 confirmed cases and 10 confirmed deaths have been recorded, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the true scale is far larger. "There are now more than 900 suspected cases and 220 suspected deaths," Tedros said at the Virtual Ministerial Briefing on the Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak on Monday.

The outbreak, declared as a public health emergency of international concern on May 17, has also spread to Uganda, which has seven confirmed cases and one death.

Tedros highlighted a critical challenge: the delay in detecting the outbreak means that health teams are now playing catch-up with a very fast-moving epidemic."We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment, the epidemic is outpacing us," he said.

The Ebola strain involved is Bundibugyo virus, for which no approved vaccines or therapeutics exist. Previous outbreaks of this strain occurred only twice - in Uganda (2007) and DRC (2012). WHO has recommended prioritizing two monoclonal antibodies for clinical trials.

Compounding the crisis, the affected provinces of Ituri and North Kivu are plagued by intense insecurity and community distrust. Recent months have seen intensified fighting displacing over 100,000 people, along with two security incidents at health facilities last week.

The WHO has raised its national risk assessment to "very high," while regional risk remains "high" and global risk "low." Neighboring countries are urged to take immediate action.

Tedros is set to travel to the DRC with the WHO's emergencies director, as the agency commits to stopping the outbreak. "It will get worse before it gets better," he admitted. "But we know this virus, and we know how to stop it."

WHO reports 220 suspected Ebola deaths in DRC, warns outbreak outpacing response

WHO reports 220 suspected Ebola deaths in DRC, warns outbreak outpacing response

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