Society: Train boosts Hulunbuir winter travel

A tourist train running on the Hulunbuir Prairie in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region started operations on Sunday, filling a gap in China's high-end railway travel market, CRRC Corp announced. Named Hulunbuir, the train runs between Hailar Railway Station and Wangong Railway Station in the region. The tourist train provides services such as sightseeing, food, accommodation and entertainment. It has business, soft sleeper, children's theme, dining and entertainment carriages. Each train can carry more than 200 passengers. The train, equipped with private bathrooms with showers, tries to provide a hotel experience on wheels. After witnessing the vast grassland and the quiet forests along the railway, passengers are taken directly to scenic spots.

Culture: Disney has a Marvel-ous year

Seemingly an unstoppable entertainment juggernaut, Disney has already powered past a world milestone of $10 billion for 2019 for its homegrown films and toward $11.94 billion with the Fox titles added, which are now under Disney's banner. This gives Disney a lock on nearly 40 percent of the market in the United States.

People: Man creates miniature Xi'an

Liang Dehuai, 80, a retired carpenter in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, recently completed construction of a miniature Xi'an city made with bamboo and wood. It covers an area of about 44 square meters, and is built to a 200:1 scale. It has reached a perimeter of 27.2 meters, is 8.3 meters long and 5.3 meters wide. In addition to the city's iconic architecture－bell tower, drum tower, the great wild goose pagoda and the small wild goose pagoda－the miniature consists of more than 100,000 bamboo and wooden accessories and parts. This includes the city walls, such as 18 gates and 2,500 city buttresses. The city served as the capital under many Chinese dynasties.

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