It is 9 am on Wednesday on a cold and chilly winter morning in December in Beijing. Ren Shirong, 82, arrives at the China Braille Library near the Second Ring Road from his home near the city's Fourth Ring Road.
The Christmas and New Year periods are now very popular points on winter tourism calendar in China, with the number of travelers up by more than 150 percent as compared with the same period last year, according to Lvmama, a popular online tourist service platform.
Between 1915 and 1918, many Christian Armenians were killed but one young man survived thanks to a violin. He didn't know how to use it, but thanks to that instrument, which was given by a friend, he could pretend to be part of an ensemble that was going on tour and therefore he escaped to Lebanon.
Longtime fans of Nicholas Tse were probably surprised when the singer-actor announced that he had released a new single, Fantasy, and more new songs could be expected this year.
"If you are in Beijing, would you come and drink with me and be my friend?" Qiran, host of an internet radio show called 777 Love Letters.
Every night before going to bed Lu Yu takes a sip from a glass at her bedside. It's a habit she got into seven years ago in her first year at university, when she felt she needed a bit of alcohol-induced drowsiness to send her to sleep.
When I told a few people recently that I had discovered a Georgian restaurant in Beijing, the most knowledgeable responses I could elicit were "Where is Georgia?" and "What language do they speak there?"
The launch of documentary The Belt and Road — Another Journey to the West and a book of the same name kicked off in Beijing on Jan 11.
An exhibition featuring 36 contemporary artists was unveiled at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing on Thursday.
The western US city of Los Angeles welcomed record 1.1 million Chinese visitors in 2017, the authorities said Wednesday.
The handmade ciba, usually decorated with patterns, is the traditional food for people of Tujia and other Chinese ethnic groups during the Spring Festival, which falls on Feb 16 this year.
Renovation work at the Jiankou section of the Great Wall, a well-known wild section of the serpentine structure in great danger of collapse, is expected to start in May, according to local authorities in Beijing.
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