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Xstream Pictures is a ___MASK94___ production company based out of Beijing and Hong Kong that was founded by filmmakers Jia Zhangke , Chow Keung , and Yu Lik - wai . Formed in 2003 , the company ' s first production was Jia ' s own " The World ". It has since served as a production house for several of Jia ' s other films , as well as Yu Lik - wai ' s " Plastic City ". The China National Tourism Administration ( CNTA ) is the ___MASK94___ government authority responsible for the development of tourism in the country . The CNTA is subordinate to the State Council . Its headquarters are in Beijing , with regional branches in various provinces . ___MASK2___ , officially the Federative Republic of ___MASK2___ , is the largest country in both South America and Latin America . As the world ' s fifth - largest country by both area and population , it is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas . Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east , ___MASK2___ has a coastline of . It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile and covers 47 . 3 % of the continent ' s land area . Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest , home to diverse wildlife , a variety of ecological systems , and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats . This unique environmental heritage makes ___MASK2___ one of 17 megadiverse countries , and is the subject of significant global interest and debate regarding deforestation and environmental protection . The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping , located in Yiling District , Yichang , Hubei province , China . The Three Gorges Dam is the world ' s largest power station in terms of installed capacity ( 22 , 500 MW ). In 2014 the dam generated 98 . 8 TWh of electricity , setting a new world record by 0 . 17 TWh previously held by the Itaipú Dam on the ___MASK2___ / Paraguay border in 2013 of 98 . 63 . But in 2015 , the Itaipu power plant resumed the lead in annual worldwide production , producing 89 . 5 TWh , while production of Three Gorges was 87 TWh . Liaoning is a province of China , located in the northeast of the country . The modern province was established in 1907 as Fengtian or Fengtien province and the name was changed to Liaoning in 1929 . It was also known as Mukden province at the time , for the Manchu pronunciation of Shengjing , the former name of the provincial capital Shenyang . Under the ___MASK82___ - puppet Manchukuo regime , the province reverted to its 1907 name but the name Liaoning was restored in 1945 and again in 1954 . The Three Gorges are three adjacent gorges along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in the People ' s Republic of China . The Three Gorges have long been renowned for their spectacular scenery , and the " Three Gorges Scenic Area " is classified as a AAAAA scenic area ( the highest level ) by the China National Tourism Administration . Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in central South America , bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest , ___MASK2___ to the east and northeast , and Bolivia to the northwest . Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River , which runs through the center of the country from north to south . Due to its central location in South America , it is sometimes referred to as " Corazón de Sudamérica " (" Heart of South America "). Paraguay is one of the two landlocked countries ( the other is Bolivia ) that lie outside Afro - Eurasia . Paraguay is the smallest landlocked country in the Americas . A primate city ( ___MASK26___ : " prime , first rank ") is the largest city in its country or region , disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy . A ' primate city distribution ' is a rank - size distribution that has one very large city with many much smaller cities and towns , and no intermediate - sized urban centres : a King effect , visible as an outlier on an otherwise linear graph , when the rest of the data fit a power law or stretched exponential function . The ' law of the primate city ' was first proposed by the geographer Mark Jefferson in 1939 . He defines a primate city as being " at least twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant ." A primate city is number one in its country in most aspects , like politics , economy , media , culture and universities . Lou Ye , born 1965 , is a ___MASK94___ screenwriter - director who is commonly grouped with the " Sixth Generation " directors of ___MASK94___ cinema . Zhang Yuan ( born October 1963 ) is a ___MASK94___ film director who has been described by film scholars as a pioneering member of China ' s Sixth Generation of filmmakers . He and his films have won ten awards out of seventeen nominations received at international film festivals . Wang Quan ' an ( b . 1965 ) is a Sixth Generation ___MASK94___ film director . Wang was born in Yan ' an , China . He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1991 . He had a ten - year relationship with actress and muse Yu Nan , which ended in 2009 . Wang Xiaoshuai ( born May 22 , 1966 ) is a ___MASK94___ film director , screenwriter and occasional actor . He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the " Sixth Generation " of the Cinema of China . Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of Thailand . It is known in ___MASK30___ as " Krung Thep Maha Nakhon " ( pronounced ) or simply . The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in Central Thailand , and has a population of over 8 million , or 12 . 6 percent of the country ' s population . Over 14 million people ( 22 . 2 percent ) live within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region , making Bangkok an extreme primate city , significantly dwarfing Thailand ' s other urban centres in terms of importance . There are 581 high - rise buildings in the city , ranking number 5 in the world . Macau ( literally : " Bay Gate "), ( in ___MASK13___ , which is still widely used in the city ) also spelled Macao ( in ___MASK12___ ), officially the Região Administrativa Especial de Macau da República Popular da China , is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River Delta in East Asia . Macau is bordered by the city of Zhuhai in China to the North and the Pearl River Estuary to the East and South . Hong Kong lies about to its East across the Delta . With a population of 650 , 900 living in an area of , it is the most densely populated region in the world . Central Thailand ( central plain ) is a region of Thailand , covering the broad alluvial plain of the Chao Phraya River . It is separated from northeast Thailand ( Isan ) by the Phetchabun mountain range . The Tenasserim Hills separate it from Myanmar to the west . In the north it is bounded by the Phi Pan Nam Range , one of the hilly systems of northern Thailand . The area was the heartland of the Ayutthaya Kingdom , and is still the dominant area of Thailand . Central Thailand contains the ___MASK30___ capital of Bangkok and it is the most populated region in the country . Liu Xiaodong ( born 1963 in Liaoning , China ) is a contemporary ___MASK94___ artist . Dong ( simplified ___MASK94___ :  ; traditional ___MASK94___ :  ; pinyin : dng ; literally : `` East '' ) is a 2006 documentary film by ___MASK94___ director , Jia Zhangke . It is the companion piece to Jia ' s Still Life , which was released concurrently although Dong was reputedly conceived of first . The film , which runs a relatively short 66 minutes , follows the artist and actor Liu Xiaodong as he invites Jia to film him while he paints a group of laborers near the Three Gorges Dam ( also the subject of Still Life ) and later a group of women in Bangkok . The film was produced and distributed by Jia ' s own production company , Xstream Pictures , based out of Hong Kong and Beijing . Dong was screened at the 2006 Venice International Film Festival as part of its `` Horizons '' Program , and as part of the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival ' s `` Real - to - Reel '' Program . Dong was filmed in HD digital video . Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People ' s Republic of China , is an autonomous territory on the Pearl River Delta of East Asia . Macau lies across the delta to the west , and the ___MASK94___ province of Guangdong borders the territory to the north . With a total land area of and a population of over 7 . 3 million of various nationalities , it ranks as the world ' s fourth most densely populated sovereign state or territory . Jia Zhangke ( born May 24 , 1970 ) is a ___MASK94___ film director and screenwriter . He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the " Sixth Generation " movement of ___MASK94___ cinema , a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai , Lou Ye , Wang Quan ' an and Zhang Yuan . Sandouping is a town in Yiling District of Yichang prefecture - level city in the ___MASK94___ province of Hubei . It is located on the right ( southern ) bank of the Yangtze River , next to Yiling District ' s border with Zigui County to the west . Sandouping is best known as the location of the Three Gorges Dam , which is the world ' s largest electricity - generating plant of any kind .