China's cultural relics now have national ID cards. A report by the State Council on Friday shows that there are 108 million moveable cultural relics in State-owned institutions on the Chinese mainland, based on a five-year national study, the first since the founding of New China in 1949.
Cloud and mist surrounds the peaks at Mount Lushan in East China's Jiangxi province, April 9, 2017.
Tourism injected more than 724 million US dollars into Laos' national budget during 2016, according to the latest data from the Tourism Development Department under the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism on Sunday.
"Xunpu" women, who are featured with wearing flowery headwears, traditional Chinese garment and wooden sabots, are symbols of laborious Chinese women in Quanzhou.
Shui Cheng, a small container of water for ink stone, is a stationery accessory that was used in ancient China. It was used to hold water to make ink and wash the writing brush.
More than 2,000 white cranes, or more than half of the total number of the endangered species, start their migration to Zhenlai county, Jilin province, to spend the spring.
Tai chi is one of the most popular forms of exercise in China, especially for the elderly. The martial art, which combines slow and fluid movements, deep breathing and meditation, has been practiced in China for centuries
Léonore Baulac is the new principal dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet, one of the most selective ballet companies in the world alongside Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet and London's Royal Ballet.
Ding Hao, 30, who works in Beijing and Wuhan, is an up-and-coming artist who creates many eye-catching installations featuring an intricate architectural structure.
How has contemporary Chinese art been evolving over the past decade? The answer will be found at a contemporary ink exhibition that opens on June 1, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Although a photographer and painter by her own right, Dora Maar (1907-97) is better known as a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso.
More Chinese are customizing their journeys. Yang Feiyue discovers privacy and flexibility intersect with various price ranges to imbue value in increasingly popular personalized trips.