Each year, on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, the mid-autumn festival is the occasion to taste the famous cakes. The « Moon cake » gets its name from the fact that at this time the moon is always full.

The Chinese wait with impatience to take with delight this delicacy. The hairy crab from lake Yangcheng is among the most sort after.

A new extension has opened its doors to the public. The library is now the 3rd largest in the world, behind the « French national library » and the « Congress library ».

With the approach of Mid-Autunm Festival (14th September, 2008), moon cake makers in Hong Kong were inspired by the human's buttocks, bakers made moon cakes in the images of different buttocks.

A Chinese internet surfer received a real surprise while visiting the southern door of the old village in Xi'an last Thursday, he saw one of his compatriots to go from tourist to tourist, lift her shirt with one hand and ask for money with the other hand.

With an internal diameter of 13.7 m the tunnel under the river Yangzi in Shanghai is the widest in the world. Connecting Shanghai to the Changxing island the tunnel is 16.63 km long.