Spring is a fabulous time to go to Hangzhou People say get ready for the New Year. New Year resolutions start at the spring time. Get rid of the thickness of cold winter. Spring is returning, better get prepared to receive the marvelous warm sunshine. When it comes to spring travel, it is a fabulous time to travel to Hangzhou. As Marco Polo describes it, Hangzhou is "beyond dispute the finest and the noblest in the world". Let’s start to plan a Hangzhou tour.

Why go to Hangzhou in spring?

The weather is neither too cold nor hot. There are less tourist crowds of summer. Travel to Hangzhou in spring is an excellent choice. Plus the flight tickets are with higher discounts except for special holidays. Isn’t it terrific to go to a lovely place and see the flowers blossom at the same time?

Spring is quite pleasant in Hangzhou although it sometimes rains. Most time the weather is quite nice. The wind breezes and the new tree leaves wave. You can have an outside picnic anytime you want. At the end of spring, temperatures can get quite warmer. [Read More]

Halászlé is a very popular dish in Hungary, especially around Christmas. Some families prepare it with more paprika, some with less; nevertheless, it is one of the most traditional recipes from this country.

Ingredients

10 ounces carp fillets

1 pound carp bones

1 pound catfish bones

10 ounces catfish fillets

10 ounces pike-perch fillets

3 onions

1 clove garlic, peeled and left whole

2 green bell peppers, halved and seeded

1 tomato, seeded and chopped

2 tablespoons sweet Hungarian paprika Salt little pinched noodles

1 hot cherry pepper, seeded and chopped, optional Put the carp and catfish bones in a 1-gallon pot. [Read More]

从不久前创下收视高峰的《宫》到现在热播的《步步惊心》，穿越剧成了当下众人追捧的对象，“穿越迷”也越来越多。尽管人们对穿越剧褒贬不一，但是穿越剧的收视持续走高却是不争的事实。

Time-travel TV series "Bu Bu Jing Xin," or "Startling by Each Step," began broadcasting on TV on September 10, 2011. Ratings of the show rose to nearly 7 percent in the first two days. The show has been searched on the Internet more than one million times in the first three days and the number is still increasing. Most of the audience gave the show high marks.

穿越剧《步步惊心》于2011年9月10日在电视上开播，头两天的收视份额就达到了近7%。该剧开播头三天网络搜索量就破百万，而且数量还在增加。大部分观众都给该剧打了高分。

时下火爆荧屏的“穿越剧”就是time-travel TV series，穿越剧是以人物穿越时空为线索的电视剧，许多穿越剧都改编自hot online novels（热门网络小说）。上文报道中的热门电视剧《步步惊心》的所改编自的原著就是Internet writer（网络作家）创作的time-travel novel（穿越小说）。 除了穿越剧外，现在最受欢迎的电视剧类型还有spy drama（谍战剧）、courtroom drama / legal thriller（案情剧）和idol drama（偶像剧）等。 [Read More]

BEIJING - Liu Chuanzhi, the founder of China's largest PC maker, the Lenovo Group, has stepped down as the company's chairman and will be succeeded by CEO Yang Yuanqing, the company announced on Wednesday.

Liu will become honorary chairman of Lenovo and Yang will assume the dual roles of chairman and CEO, the company said in a statement on its official website.

In a separate statement, Lenovo announced that it has become the world's second-largest PC vendor with a record market share of 13.5 percent in its second fiscal quarter report.

The Hong Kong-listed company said that in the three-month period ending on September 30, its net profits jumped 87.9 percent to $144 million. [Read More]

It has no doctors, pharmacies or shops and few people get sick, according to some local residents. A village in Mengxian county, Yangquan city of North China's Shanxi province, has just 17 residents. The village is called Dapin by local residents. The houses in the village are built by stone on mud with more than 40 courtyards and some are about 1,200 years old, said Gao Feng, vice director of Cultural Relics and Tourism Bureau of Mengxian county. [Read More]