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Huo Yuanjia was a Chinese martial artist and co-founder of the Chin Woo Athletic Association, a martial arts school in Shanghai. A practitioner of the martial art Míz?ngyì, he is considered a hero in China for challenging foreign fighters in highly publicized matches at a time when Chinese sovereignty was being eroded by foreign concessions and spheres of influence. Due to his heroic status, legends and myths about events in his life are difficult to discern from the facts.

Dream of the Red Chamber , also known as The Story of the Stone is one of the masterpieces of Chinese fiction and one of the Chinese Four Great Classical Novels. It was composed sometime in the middle of the 18th century during the Qing Dynasty. It is attributed to Cao Xueqin.

The novel is believed to be semi-autobiographical, mirroring the fortunes of Cao’s own family. As the author details in the first chapter, it is intended to be a memorial to the women he knew in his youth: friends, relatives and servants.

The novel is remarkable not only for its huge cast of characters (most of them female) and psychological scope, but also for its precise and detailed observation of the life and social structures typical of 18th-century Chinese aristocracy.

Lijiang City is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Yunnan Province, China.

The Chinese Sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) is a member of the family Acipenseridae and the order Acipenseriformes. The local name for this species of fish is Zhong Hua Xun.

It is an animal strictly protected by the Chinese government, thought to have lived at the same time as dinosaurs, dating back to a period 140 million years ago. Because of that, it is sometimes also known as a living fossil.

It can be considered a large fresh water fish, and is 200 to 500 centimeters in body length, with 200 to 500 kilograms in average weight. The largest one can weigh 550 kilograms. A grownup sturgeon measures up to 4 meters long, weighs over 1000 pound, ranking the third biggest only to the white sturgeon and atlantic sturgeon. Its head is acuminate, with the mouth under its jaw.

Sturgeon is a comparatively basal species of fish.

The Chinese Sturgeon has a habit of upstream migration, and dwells along the coasts of China’s eastern areas and migrate into rivers for propagation upon reaching sexual maturity. It has the longest migration of any sturgeon in the world and once migrated more than 2,000 miles (3,500 kilometers) up the Yangtze.[1] Most aquatic animals are food for the young of the Chinese Sturgeon, while the adults feed on aquatic insects, larval, diatom and humic substances. Its reproductive capacity is poor; generally, it takes more than 10 years for Chinese Sturgeon to be sexually mature.

The Chinese sturgeon is largely dispersed over the main streams of the Yangtze River and coastal regions of Qiantang River, Minjiang River and Pearl River. It is a precious but endangered species native to China, named a “national treasure” much like its mammal counterpart, the Giant Panda.

The Chinese Sturgeon is of great academic interest in taxonomy and biology. The channel for adult fish migrating to superior spawning sites such as the Jinsha River in the upstream of Yangtze River was blocked after the construction of the hydropower project, Gezhouba Dam. For this reason, the government has invested huge labor power and financial resources to protect this precious species. At present, some success has been achieved with artificial inducement for spawning and stream discharge for incubation. Built in 1982, the Chinese Sturgeon Museum is part of the Chinese Sturgeon Institution of China which is using such artificial breeding techniques to try to preserve this endangered species.

The Type 094 is a new class of ballistic missile submarine developed by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy. The first-of-class has reportedly been under construction at Huludao Shipyard in Huludao, Liaoning Province since 1999 and was launched in July 2004. At least 2 are believed to be in service.

In late 2006, a commercial satellite photographed what is believed to be the new Jin-class submarine moored in Xiaopingdao Submarine Base. In comparison with the older Type 092-class submarine, it has been elongated from 122m to 133m in order to house the missile tubes and part of the reactor.

The Type 094 submarine is capable of carrying 12 of the more modern JL-2s with a range of approximately 8000 km, and is capable of targeting much of the Western Hemisphere, some of it from close to the Chinese coast. The Type 094 is believed to incorporate a great deal of Russian technology and will replace the Type 092 submarine (NATO reporting name: Xia class) for the People’s Liberation Army Navy.

The United States Office of Naval Intelligence predicts five more Type 094′s are to be built for the People’s Liberation Army Navy. However, this number is only an estimate and was not repeated in the United States Department of Defense annual report on the Chinese military.The United States government has expressed concern over these submarines, saying that the Chinese government has not been transparent enough about the program.

Another recent discovery by users of Google Earth shows two more potential Jin Class submarine sightings in drydock. However one may be the previously identified Jin class sub discovered earlier. In October 2007 the first photograph of the new 094 class was published on the internet. As the picture shows the new submarine will not carry 16 JL-2 SLBMs but only 12.