For instance, Americans will never forget the hospitality shown to our pilots who were shot down over your soil during World War II, and cared for by Chinese civilians who risked all that they had by doing so.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds Town Hall with Chinese Youth

Log cottages are sinking into a soil which gives up evidence of the siege: cannon shot, wooden shovels, barley blackened by fire.

ECONOMIST: The Amur River