For foreign auction houses that aren't legally allowed to sell Chinese antiquities on the mainland, an important strategy is to create new collection fields.
More funds, greater awareness needed to preserve one of the world's ancient wonders, Wang Kaihao reports.
"I was told to be prepared for the audience to leave, but no one left - no one ever made a sound," Zhu Xiao-Mei, the pianist who left China in disappointment more than 30 years ago, said she almost regained confidence in the country after the show held in Xi'an last Sunday.
Health insurance cited as problem for those serving cash-poor religious institutions.
Milan, laying on the south of Taklimakan Desert, was an important town on the ancient "Silk Road", and was recorded in the narrative of Xuan Zang's pilgrimage to India in the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
An opening ceremony celebrating the beginning of the national tour of more than 200 art works showcasing China's pacesetters is held at Bo'xing Building of the Military Museum in Beijing, Oct 15, 2015.
Themed "Art Beijing, Fulfill Dreams", the third Beijing Literature and Art Exhibition opened Wednesday and will be held at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing through Monday.
Dancers from the Bandaloop dance troupe of the United States perform sky ballet near a skyscraper in East China's Shanghai municipality, Oct 14, 2015.
The discovery of 47 human teeth in a cave in Hunan province by Chinese scientists has unearthed new evidence that the earliest modern humans lived in East Asia.
Tao Shiqing, 60, a farmer in Gaolan county, Northwest China's Gansu province spends 10 years stippling the episodes of Chinese classical novel "The Dream of Red Mansions" on flagstones.
Photo shows the wall of Shimao Historic Site on the mountain ridge near Dongchuangou of Gaojiabao town, Shenmu county, Northwest China's Shaanxi province.
One spot of the Great Wall, one of the world's most recognizable landmarks, recently accommodated a set built and abandoned by a film crew in May in Beijing, a local newspaper reported.