The number of foreigners coming to China has increased significantly in the first quarter of this year as a result of the continued improvement in the country's policies to facilitate cross-border travel, the National Immigration Administration said on Tuesday.
In May 2023, on the eve of her summit attempt on Mount Qomolangma (Mount Everest),16-year-old Xu Zhuoyuan encountered a fierce snowstorm during her ascent.
"Has the grain been filled?" is a playful way of asking, "Have you eaten?" Similarly, "Your hands are like excavators, with the strength of bears, wolves, and leopards" means "You have a strong grip."
Fleeting companions Instead of the usual image of cats curled up on laps, some young people in China are choosing crabs, praying mantises, and hamsters as pets.
Chen Meimei, a 26-year-old from Shiyan, Hubei province, recently spent a weekend in Xinghua village in Danjiangkou, less than two hours away. She arrived just in time for the village's annual "Three Blossoms Festival", which celebrates the blooming of apricot, peach, and rape flowers — and the experience was unlike any she'd had before.
Bronze mirrors, painted terracotta bricks, pottery figures, and religious statues and paintings form part of a vast collection of objects of antiquity at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.