going to show you one of our most important works of art in this museum — it is the cauldron of duke of mao 3000 years ago. and the outside decoration is modest, but quite important, in fact, is the inscription inside. you can find 500 chinese characters being cast and this is the longest inscription ever found in any ancient chinese bronze. last beijing would like to see a lot of exhibits returned, many trainees in taiwan say some of these priceless objects may not have survived the purchase of china's cultural revolution if they had stayed on the mainland. with so much to display some of the collection often travels abroad, later this year pa rt often travels abroad, later this year part of that will go on show in australia and in the run—up to the 2020 olympic games it would then be heading to japan. but so far there are no plans to allow any of the correction to go on show in mainland china anytime soon. —— any plans to allow the collection. they are not for today i'm here in a beautiful ski result in the french alps to test out a bunch of the latest ski gadgets. first up is an artifici

going to show you one of our most important works of art in this museum — it is the cauldron of duke of mao ago. and the outside decoration is modest, but quite important, in fact, is the inscription inside. you can find 500 chinese characters being cast and this is the longest inscription ever found in any ancient chinese bronze. was it quite common back in those days to inscribe the inside of a cauldron like this? indeed. it was during the zhou dynasty. and also the calligraphy — it's beautiful, actually. yes. it's archaic style. and, actually, you can compare it with the modern day mandarin. yes. ah, i see. and how does it compare to modern day mandarin? you can still recognise, like, ah, this is the king — 3,000 years ago. this is the modern day king. yes, yeah. so it's easy to recognise. and this one's very similar, too. yes, it's heaven, actually, because it's above human beings. this is heaven. this is actually the character of human being. ah, yeah, it does look like a man. yes. ever since the end of the civil war in the late 1940s, there's been a strange relationship between the ch

going to show you one of our most important works of art in this museum — it is the cauldron of duke of mao the late 19a0s, there's been a strange relationship between the chinese mainland and taiwan. and while beijing would like to see a lot of the exhibits returned, many chinese in taiwan say that some of these priceless objects may not have survived the purges of china's cultural revolution if they stayed on the mainland. with so much to display, some of the collection often travels abroad. later this year part of it will go on show in australia. and in the run—up to the 2020 olympic games it will then be heading to japan. but so far there are no plans for any of the collection to go on show in mainland china any time soon. hello. for today, i'm here in tignes — a beautiful ski resort here in the french alps — to test out, as you've probably guessed, a bunch of the latest ski gadgets. the first up is carv, an artificially intelligent ski instructor that lives inside your boots. it comes with a pair of insoles and two trackers that sit on the back of your boots. with a8 pressure sensors i

duke on the wittenoom asbestos mine in australia. now in 1968, chairman mao launched a scheme to improve healthcare in rural china by giving thousands ofhem out to work in villages. they were known as the barefoot doctors. gordon liu was one of them. i became a barefoot doctor after i graduated from high school simply because i was one of the most educated young persons. i had no training, no experience or knowledge in medicine whatsoever. voiceover: chairman mao says the sick must be healed and has caused a real shake—up in china's health services. voiceover: every commune, they say, now has hospitals and clinics providing medical attention where there was none before. perhaps the most striking development has been the training of a vast corps of a barefoot doctors. they have their farm work to do as well, and their training is limited but even if you can teach people simple hygiene, it saves countless lives. we provided very basic services to our villages, mostly for the common cold conditions, infections, diarrhoea, things like that. barefoot doctor simply described that sometimes we had to take shoes off to work in farmland. we wer