ACT has also hired a Beijing-based administrative manager who will coordinate the projects in China. She's Ms. Song Ning, an experienced manager and translator for both Chinese government agencies and UN agencies dealing with China. She has also worked with IBM China Ltd. in Beijing.
ACT has signed a contract with the famous Chinese Museum of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang Xian that represents an important step in ACT becoming a major commercial presence in the growing world of cultural digital commerce.
The contract to promote the massive underground army, which former French President Jacques Chirac rightly called the Eighth Wonder of the World, gives ACT exclusive North American, European and Central American marketing rights. It also calls 
for ACT "to develop and expand the market for the museum" and its products, and to "develop the museum on the net" in order to produce a revenue stream for both ACT and the museum. As we speak ACT's people in China are busy digitizing images and preparing the way to do just that.
The Terracotta Warrior army was discovered by farmers at the foot of the Lishan Mountains in 1974. Digging in the fields they found the central burial mound of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor to unify China in a series of bloody wars from 246 to 221 B.C. More than 700,000 laborers toiled in the tomb for 36 years, even after the emperor's death, to build a complete army of warriors and horses in terracotta to serve the emperor in the underworld. Amazingly, no two warriors or horses are alike. The museum is one of the world's most important cultural sites, and it will anchor our own World Heritage Exchange site of cultural artifacts and artworks.
The art of paper cutting has a history of more than two thousand years in China. It consists of knife and scissors cutting with single or multi-color styles. The resulting works are exquisite in both character and drawing, and rich in both content and picture. Traditional paper cuts can be seen on doors, windows and walls as decorations on holidays and festivals such as Chinese New Year.
Pingyao is one of China's best-preserved ancient towns and in December 1997 UNESCO's World Cultural Relics Committee declared it a World Heritage City. It has a history dating back over 2700 years. The most remarkable feature of the town is its original city wall that remains in excellent condition. The wall is over 6 kilometres long, 12 metres thick, was made with rammed earth and bricks, and is wide enough for two horse-drawn carts to fit side by side.