BEIJING cheap nike air max 90 mens , Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Seven years ago, curtain was raised on the Beijing Olympic Games on this very day and from now on in another seven years, the Chinese capital will embrace another Olympics.


Hundreds of thousands of Chinese all over the country thronged to plazas and parks, dancing, running and playing traditional Chinese sports to mark this very special date, which has been designated the National Fitness Day since the 2008 Summer Games.


As Beijing and co-bidder Zhangjiakou were awarded the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, this day will be both commemoration of the past and celebration of the future.


In Beijing, a group of kids performed the dragon dance as way to celebrate the successful 2022 bid while nearly 10,000 people played shadow boxing, shuttlecock kicking and cuju, the ancient form of soccer, in the Olympic Center in north Beijing.


In Urumqi, Xinjiang, the holy flame for the 13th National Winter Games was ignited and the torch relay began in the western city. The National Winter Games will be held in Xinjiang from Jan. 20 to 31, 2016.


The Fitness Day celebration also caught up with the trend of the Internet age when over 1,000 people gathered, through social media WeChat, in Chongqing's Zhaomushan forest park for a run.


Organizers said they hope more young people will do exercise together through social media rather than just hanging out at dinner parties.

Egyptian workers pack oranges on conveyors inside a packhouse located in Beheira province, north of Cairo, capital of Egypt, on Jan. 24, 2018. Thanks to the fast-growing demand in China for quality fruits, Egypt has witnessed a rapid increase in its citrus exports to China in the past years, which has led many Egyptian citrus farms to prosper. Now Egypt, famous for producing sweet juicy oranges, has become the third largest exporter of citrus to China after South Africa and the United States. (XinhuaZhao Dingzhe)

CAIROBEHEIRA, Egypt, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Thanks to the fast-growing demand in China for quality fruits, Egypt has witnessed a rapid increase in its citrus exports to China in the past years, which has led many Egyptian citrus farms to prosper.


Now Egypt, famous for producing sweet juicy oranges, has become the third largest exporter of citrus to China after South Africa and the United States.


"We began citrus export to China with over 23,000 tons in the first year in 2015, which then increased to more than 36,000 tons in 2016 and finally jumped to exceed 101,000 tons in 2017, which is more than three times increase since we started," said Mohsen al-Beltagy, chairman of Egypt's Horticultural Export Improvement Association (HEIA).


HEIA, founded in 1996, is in charge of selecting certified farms and arranging citrus exports to several parts of the world including European and Asian states in coordination with concerned agricultural authorities home and abroad.


"We inspect the farms and choose the best of them to export to China, in cooperation with officials from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture who visit us here to see the farms," Beltagy told Xinhua at his office in Cairo.


HEIA also holds training programs for Egyptian citrus farmers to raise the quality of their fruits to be exported to China, Beltagy said.


Han Bing, economic and commercial counselor at China's Embassy in Cairo, noted that Egypt's orange exports to China hit 20 million U.S. dollars in 2015 and sharply increased to 80 million dollars in 2016.


"Chinese market is a big, open and highly-competitive. Our imports from all over the world will reach 10 trillion dollars in the next five years," Hang told Xinhua.


He said he expected to see further increase in the exports of Egyptian agricultural products to China in the future. "We help Egyptians improve the quality of products to reach our import standards and we expect to see more Egyptian agricultural products in the Chinese market," he said.


Maghrabi Agriculture (MAFA), one of Egyptian citrus farms approved for exports to China, exported 2,500 tons of oranges to the world's most populous country last year.


Stretched on a vast reclaimed desert area in the Beheira province to the north of Cairo, MAFA looked like a piece of art with its rows and rows of aligned citrus trees bearing shinning round-shaped golden fruits waiting to be harvested and sent to the packing facility before exporting.


"Each acre produces from 20 to 25 tons of citrus and we have around 5,500 acres in MAFA. We produce some 100,000 tons per year, about 90 percent of which is for export and 10 percent for the local market," said Arafa al-Sheikh, head of MAFA's citrus department.


He told Xinhua that MAFA takes great care of its citrus fruits from the early stage through well-managed fertilization, irrigation and chemical treatment.


"The citrus quality is completely based on biologic resistance, pest control, and most limited and timely use of approved pesticides. We take care of the products from beginning to end," the engineer said.


Inside MAFA's spacious packhouse, dozens of workers, all in white uniform, packed oranges on several conveyors after they were screened by an electronic sizer that separated them based on their size, color and defect degree.


Adel Qiritam, MAFA's general manager, said that MAFA uses Egyptian and foreign expertise, best post-harvest experts and advanced technologies to achieve the highest quality of its products to satisfy its clients.


"For instance, this is the second year for MAFA to use this electronic sizer, which detects all defects. The previous one only classified fruits according to their color and diameter. This one uses the color, diameter, size, external defects and everything to separate them," he told Xinhua in his office overlooking the packhouse's interior.


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