Air China Supports Arts Exchange between Beijing's Palace Museum and the British Museum.BEIJING -- Air China, as China's only flag carrier, has proudly sponsored the first cooperation between Beijing's Palace Museum (also known as the Forbidden City Forbidden City: see Beijing and Chinese architecture. Forbidden City Imperial Palace complex in Beijing, containing hundreds of buildings and some 9,000 rooms. It served the emperors of China from 1421 to 1911. ) and London's British Museum British Museum, the national repository in London for treasures in science and art. Located in the Bloomsbury section of the city, it has departments of antiquities, prints and drawings, coins and medals, and ethnography. , two of the most famous museums in the world. Air China has provided free cargo transport, free tickets for traveling museum staff, and other support and services for the exhibition entitled "The United Kingdom and the World: 1714-1830," on display in Beijing from March 9. The Forbidden City, home to the visiting British Museum exhibit, is the largest and most complete imperial palace and ancient building complex in China. Today the Forbidden City, or Palace Museum, displays some one million precious historical relics. It was made part of World Cultural Heritage list and is one of the top five palaces in the world. The British Museum, which is the largest integrated museum of the U.K, was founded in 1753 and houses cultural relics, ancient scrolls, and other rarities from the entire world. "We are proud to sponsor this first-ever museum cooperation and cultural exchange," said Mrs. Zhang Lan, Senior Vice President of Air China. "Air China is glad to grow its role of corporate responsibility and international contributor, especially when it supports one of China's greatest treasures, the Forbidden City." Matching this pride in its cultural heritage, Air China has launched two new service brands, "Forbidden Pavilion" First Class and "Capital Pavilion" Business Class. Forbidden Pavilion carries specific features to reflect the royalty, honor, and privacy associated with the Forbidden City, while Capital Pavilion is focused on business and comfort associated with the Capital Palace, the imperial palace in Xi'an of the famous Tang Dynasty Tang dynasty or T'ang dynasty (618–907) Chinese dynasty that succeeded the short-lived Sui and became a golden age for poetry, sculpture, and Buddhism. . As China's sole designated flag carrier and the Airline Partner of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Air China (HKEX: 0753; LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor : AIRC AIRC Australian Industrial Relations Commission AIRC Associazione Italiana Per La Ricerca Sul Cancro (Italian Cancer Research Association) AIRC American Information Resource Center ; SSE (1) An earlier full-screen editor in OS/2. (2) (Streaming SIMD Extensions) A series of additional instructions built into Pentium CPU chips for improved multimedia performance by performing mathematical operations on multiple sets of data at the : 601111) serves 77 domestic and 40 international cities with an extensive network from its Beijing hub, conveniently linking passengers between China and destinations around the world. In North America, Air China serves New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Vancouver with non-stop service to Beijing. For more information visit http://www.airchina.com.cn/ or http://us.fly-airchina.com. |
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