In the past 20 years, Deqing county in East China's Zhejiang province has seen 55 villagers use their own money to set awards for role models.
Two gunshots were heard at the Bethune International Peace Hospital in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, in December 1949. A Japanese doctor was shot dead by Sha Fei (1912-50), a patient of tuberculosis and a noted photographer of the People's Liberation Army.
Last year, five Chinese painters were commissioned by the China Artists Association to execute two works for the upcoming seventh Beijing International Art Biennale.
Macao-born artist Ng Sio-leng draws on her experiences of both East and West. The artist, who lived in London a year before moving to Taipei where she lived for a decade, has been in Beijing for the past nine years.
The Women of the World Festival was launched in Beijing at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center on Sept 16, drawing more than 3,000 people.
Forty Taiji training centers have been set up in Chenjiagou, attracting nearly 10,000 Taiji fans from different countries and regions in a year.
The 2017 International Creatineer Competition ended in Beijing's high-tech Zhongguancun area on Saturday with 15 robotics projects of 546 entries winning different top awards.
A series of cultural events will be jointly held by Beijing's Haidian district and Xiongxian county in Hebei province in the coming weeks.
A benefit concert, featuring the original songs of four singers and bands, went off splendidly at Lang Park Vintage in CBD Beijing on Sept 16.
A visitor views relics displayed at an exhibition of civilization of the Qin (221 BC-207 BC) and Han (202 BC-220 AD) dynasties, in Beijing, capital of China, Sept 17, 2017.
China's major archaeological discoveries were selected from the list of significant archaeological finds announced by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) from 2011 to 2016.
The "Blue Earth" beach clean-up event was held in Tianjin on September 16 by the European Union Delegation to China and the State Oceanic Administration of the People’s Republic of China (SOA) as part of the EU-China Blue Year.