Jingdezhen

Many Chinese people go there.

Uh, Jingdezhen.

You, you know, you mentioned porcelain.

And, you know, China's such a diverse place geographically, um, you know, in terms of the customs in the different parts of the country.

Yiwu has also launched the six themed routes for diversified holiday experiences.

Jingdezhen is known as the world's porcelain capital, with a thousand-year history of porcelain-making.

Zheng Sunlu visited the city in Jiangxi Province to see how urban renewal is benefiting young artisans while keeping its craft heritage alive.

In 2016, Jingdezhen began its urban renewal, restoring more than 1,000 residential buildings in Taoyangli District, most of them dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Last year, the district launched its Craftsman and Folk Arts program, bringing in artisans while promoting cultural tourism.

Craftsmen receive support such as free promotion and rent reductions, allowing them to open workshops and focus on their work.

Dai Jinwu, a porcelain restoration specialist who's lived in Jingdezhen for six years, said that the program has brought more visitors to his workshops.

In the past six months, more and more people have been coming.

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Bao Chao galloped from fire to fire.

A Hunanese general named Zhuo Zhongtang, a name this war would not be finished with for years, held the porcelain city of Jingdezhen, the last gate on the last supply road, through the worst of it.

Zeng Guofan, reduced from strategist to fire warden, wrote to his commanders that everything in southern Anhui was going wrong, that 40 or 50,000 men would break if the supplies failed, and by January, set down in his letters the one thing he alone on the imperial side had worked out, that all these skirmishes on both banks of the river were distractions in the service of a master designed to relieve Anqing.

He had read Hong Renggan's plan off the patterns of his own wounds.

It did him no immediate good.

On April 9th, Jingdezhen fell to the attending king.

The last road closed.

And Zeng Guofan, sealed inside the encirclement of his headquarters, gathered 9,000 men to cut his way out to the east.

You got six ATP Challengers.

Emerson Jones through to the semifinals in Jingdezhen as she gets a six and six victory to advance, uh, her Boelis Maniero All each still alive there in Jing Shan.

If that, that I would love that as a Sunday final.

That would certainly wake me up at whatever hour that they want to play.

And if that wasn't enough, you've also got action, of course, d- two WTA 125K events, six ATP Challenger events.

Uh, who am I watching for most closely at the 125K level this week? Emerson Jones, former World Junior number one, the number three seed this week, uh, is into the quarterfinals in Jingdezhen.

An event, of course, that in the quarterfinals right now you've got Sara Sorribes Tormo, you've got top seed Boos Ismane.

They are not in the quarterfinals yet, but still alive and competing in the round of 16 tonight.

Trade caravans were raided by both sides.

The safety that had allowed merchants to bring porcelain from Jingdezhen and beads from India vanished.

Great Zimbabwe went from being a cosmopolitan hub to a militarized zone.

One of the key figures in this period is difficult to pin down because the records are fragmented.

Today we'll talk about how UNESCO has honored the world's first porcelain-centered industrial heritage site, keeping the traditional flame alive and allowing it to continue firing new stories for the world to enjoy.

In late July, UNESCO added Jingdezhen's porcelain industry sites to the World Heritage List during its annual committee meeting in Busan, South Korea, bringing China's total World Heritage sites to 61.

The inclusion marks China's first nomination of an industrial heritage site for World Heritage status, and the world's first World Heritage site centered on porcelain.

Located in East China's Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen is renowned for a porcelain-making tradition more than 1,700 years old.

Abundant deposits of porcelain clay, combined with a well-developed water transport network, helped turn the city into the world's leading center of porcelain production.

Spread across Jingdezhen's hilly terrain, the complex preserves a complete, handcrafted porcelain production system that flourished from the 10th to the 19th centuries.

Porcelain made in Jingdezhen traveled along the Silk Road to destinations around the world, literal vessels for cultural and commercial exchange between East and West.

According to the World Heritage Committee, the sites demonstrate the development of Chinese ceramics, artistic traditions, and the porcelain industry.