At this year's BIMUN, a delegate whose name plate reads "Associated Press" sat at the back of the UNESCO conference, taking notes on anything of substance achieved in the sessions.
Some 150 million domestic elementary and middle school students and more than 9 million of their teachers are now going to have their Chinese texts read by well-known broadcasters as demonstrations for reading aloud.
A Vietnamese girl in a white dress stepped out of the Chinese Embassy with her oval face brightened in the early summer sunlight.
Shanghai-based Fudan University is to present zoological and plant specimens, collected since the 1950s, to the public.
A branch of Beijing's Palace Museum, generally known as the Forbidden City, will open in Hong Kong in 2022 to give residents and tourists an opportunity to view some of China's most treasured artifacts.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) concluded its China tour in Beijing last Thursday. It teamed up with a renowned Chinese violinist, giving music fans a night to remember.
Artist Huang Yongyu is known for his great vigor and versatility. He paints, writes, designs, creates prints and draws comics. And at 94, he has fallen into a new habit of art creation: carving figures on earthen "zisha" teapots.
Recipe: Dried Cabbage and Dried Fig Pork Bones Soup
Yang Luzi, 31, majored in philosophy during her undergraduate study at Harvard University before receiving a master's degree in the art of cinematic creation from California Institute of the Arts.
A shipwreck is like a museum - a time capsule filled with stories of the people aboard, the voyage they were undertaking and the age in which they lived. An ongoing exhibition at the China Maritime Museum offers a glimpse into the stories of ill-fated voyages through the export of porcelain from 11 shipwrecks.
Artist Wang Lei has spent the last three years documenting the Asian route of the ancient Silk Road by painting portraits of its people.
It is often said that Chinese civilization extends back 5,000 years. Now, after 15 years of intense research as part of a nationwide project to explore the origins of that civilization, archaeologists are able to back up that statement with solid physical evidence.