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The Palace Museum in Beijing is looking for ways to accommodate the overwhelming number of visitors that pouring in through its doors every year.
New proposals include half-price tickets after 2 pm to encourage visitors to avoid the peak time in the morning and switch to the afternoon, so they can have more comfortable touring experiences. The museum will try out the new pricing in Mid-September.
Annual passes to the museum are also in the works, which will allow each pass-holder a maximum ten visits in the museum every year.
Half-price discounts will be offered to students and seniors in the country.
The Palace Museum, the royal Forbidden City, received more than 15 million visitors in 2012; and most of the visits were made during the peak season. There were an average 70,000 visitors per day in summer and 20,000 in winter.
In an effort to balance the inflow of visitors, the museum is considering providing free tickets to some visitors during the slack season.
For example, large tourist groups of up to 200 people can visit the museum for free on the first Wednesday of each month between
November this year and April next year. Free tickets will also be offered to teachers, volunteers, medical doctors and college students during the low season.
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A wild giant panda has been found dead at a nature reserve in southwest China's Sichuan Province. An autopsy has confirmed that the panda died of bleeding within the skull after it fell from a hill.
The Wolong Nature Reserve says that rainstorms battered the area recently, possibly caused the panda to fall as it tried to go down a hill to a river.
Days of rainstorms had triggered a mudslide at the reserve. The panda was found dead near a hydropower station by local farmers.
Since the massive Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, mudslides have often occurred in the reserve, damaging the ecological environment and threatening the survival of wild pandas.
The reserve has said it will strengthen supervision to protect the animals from being affected by floods or mudslides.
About 1,600 giant pandas live in the wild, mostly in the mountains of Sichuan.
The Wolong National Nature Reserve is located in Wenchuan County and it covers 200,000 hectares of land. Founded in 1963, the nature reserve is one of the most successful in the country, and is known as "home of the giant panda".
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Chinese scientists are planning to build a "brain database" in a bid to identify clues to tackling cerebral diseases and related disorders.
The creation of a unified general and patient database will help doctors to identify the biomarkers of brain diseases, which can then be used as the basis for early diagnosis and treatment.
Researchers at the Institute of Neuroscience under the Chinese Academy of Sciences say that the database will also be a useful resource for scientists around the world who are involved in brain research.
Few details of the project have been made public, but researchers say that one of its primary goals will be to find treatments for diseases such as autism and Alzheimer's.
Autism is a neurological disorder whose incidence is on the rise globally.
The World Health Organization has said that there were almost 8 million autistic children in China.
Meanwhile, 50 percent of the global population aged over 85 has Alzheimer's. By 2050, there will be as many as 9 million seniors in China with the disease.
There is no cure for Alzheimer's, and one of the goals of the brain database is to find ways to minimize the symptoms.
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China has launched a digital library on the Chinese people's Resistance against Japanese aggression between 1937 and 1945.
The library was set up a week before the 77th anniversary since the war broke out in a suburb of Beijing on July 7th 1937.
The library can be found on Baidu baike, the online encyclopedia of China's top search engine baidu.com.
The online library features photographs of items including letters, diaries, tools and weapons. Audio and 3D presentations are available.
Organizers say the museum is designed for people to get to know about the history of the war in a more convenient way.
Japanese troops invaded northeast China in 1931. But historians say that Japan's full-scale invasion started in 1937, when the Lugou Bridge, a crucial passage to Beijing, was attacked by Japanese troops.
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