Pietro Laureano talks about how a city once known as a national shame (Matera) was transformed into a glorious heritage site. He also gave advice on how China could achieve sustainable development of the same kind.
The music festival will return on April 30 and May 1 in 2016. US band Backstreet Boys will perform for 90 minutes on the first day with its complete lineup.
People select books at a book fair in Chaoyang Park in Beijing, capital of China, April 15, 2016. The 2016 Beijing Book Fair opened here on Friday.
People sprinkle water to each other to celebrate the water-sprinkling festival at a square in Jinghong city, Dai autonomous prefecture of Xishuangbanna, Southwest China's Yunnan province, April 15, 2016.
A blue-and-white stem cup which bears wing dragons and was made during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) will be auctioned in Hong Kong on May 31. It has a pre-sale estimate of $2.85 million.
Muqam is a Uygur traditional art combining songs, dances, folk and classical music.
Spring is a season when everything wakes up from the long and dull winter. The air becomes warmer, the grass greener, the flowers bloom, and everything is so fresh and flourishing.
A court has sentenced the head of a tomb-raiding ring to death with a two-year reprieve for robbing ancient graves and trafficking in cultural relics.
Over 170,000 movable cultural relics in Potala Palace have been documented by now. Xizang started to register and document removable cultural relics after China's central government decided to do a nationwide survey on it back in 2013.
The Fangcheng stone monkey is a traditional artwork of stone carving originated from the Yanshanpu Village since Song Dynasty (960-1279). It was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
An aerial view of the ruins of the Tongji Gate in Nanjing City, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, April 13, 2016. The Tongji Gate was a remarkable boat-shaped structure built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
Actors from a drum troupe of Henan's Kaifeng city perform during a drum and gong tournament in Taiyuan, North China's Shanxi province, April 13, 2016.
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