• CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE
  China’s dance drama Mulan debuts at the Lincoln Center of New York City in the United States on March 5 (WANG LEI)
• TEN-YEAR VISA
  A Canadian citizen Timothy Mark Hay receives a validity of up to 10 years at the Chinese Visa Application Service Center in Toronto, Canada, on March 9.
  
  The Chinese embassy and consulates in Canada began to grant visas to Canadian citizens also carrying validity periods of up to 10 years on March 9, according to the arrangement which had been agreed upon earlier between the two countries (ZOU ZHENG)
• TEA TIME
  Workers process tea at a factory in Liucheng County of Liuzhou, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on March 9 (DENG KEYI)
• SPEEDING BULLET
  CRH380A bullet train, an electric high-speed train developed and manufactured by China, in a trial run on the Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-Speed Railway’s Hami section in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on March 10 (CAI ZENGLE)