A recent online article entitled "In Beijing, 20 million people are pretending to live a life" went viral at the weekend and sparked a debate on life in the Chinese capital. On Thursday, People's Daily published a rebuttal, denouncing what it claimed was a "pretend life" that has been lived by both locals and immigrants.
Beijing has been ranked as the number one city for tourists on the Chinese mainland, according to a list published by news platforms Jiemian.com and toutiao.com.
Featuring almost 100 photographs taken by Chinese astronauts in space, a new exhibition of literally out-of-this-world photography opened at the Beijing Planetarium on Wednesday.
At the exhibition Sign, artists Zhu Yiqing and Xue Yongjun show paintings that feature portraits of such icons as Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe.
Li Juan, a Xinjiang-based writer born in the 1970s, has won wide acclaim for her prose featuring Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region since she wrote for a newspaper.
The People's Liberation Army will mark the 90th anniversary of its founding on Aug 1.
Amazon China, one of the largest online booksellers, unveiled the bestselling books in China for the first half of 2017 on Tuesday, disclosing Chinese people's reading habits.
The award ceremony of the 2017 Beijing Cultural Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was held on July 13.
Amazing scenery of Barkol grassland in China's Xinjiang
An event to mark the end of Looking China, an annual youth film project, was held at Beijing Normal University. "Watch people" is created by Christian Grobbelaar of South Africa.
This June, the Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, an agency known for its quality publications on traditional Chinese culture, released a two-volume book called Illustrations of Wildlife in the Book of Songs, providing a new way to appreciate the literary classics.
When 10-year-old Liu Jian was studying at a Beijing primary school in the early 1960s, his teacher read a famous poem written by Chairman Mao Zedong to the class.
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