The Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems concert took place at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing on Saturday night, bringing together 14 vocalists from nine countries including China, the United States and Italy to perform a Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) poems set to music in Chinese.
The event was presented by iSing, a vocal arts festival founded by Asian Performing Arts Council, along with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
The concert with both western classical music and oriental poetry gems has previously been staged at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, where it received enthusiastic acclaim.
Symphony featuring ancient China's Tang poetry resonates in Beijing
China's foreign exchange reserves totaled 3.26105 trillion U.S. dollars at the end of October, down by 55.317 billion dollars, or 1.67 percent, compared to the end of September, official data showed Thursday.
The State Administration of Foreign Exchange noted in a statement that the U.S. dollar index climbed and global financial asset prices declined last month due to monetary policy expectations and macroeconomic data in major economies.
"Due to the combined effects of factors such as currency translation and changes in asset prices, China's foreign exchange reserves shrank in October," the statement reads.
China is effectively implementing a host of policies to consolidate the momentum of economic growth, which will be conducive to maintaining the general stability of foreign exchange reserves, the administration said.
China's foreign exchange reserves drop to 3.26 trln USD
