The importance of museums playing a bigger role in cultural heritage and environmental protection was highlighted by a senior cultural official on Wednesday.
The six main buildings of the Forbidden City in Beijing have been illuminated to showcase the original look of the palace to visitors on May 18, 2016.
More cultural spaces will be encouraged in Beijing's highly commercialized hutong, including the popular Nanluoguxiang, said Dongheng district government.
The country's only wheat-themed museum opened recently in Wen county, Henan province. Covering an area of 3,995 square meters, the museum fully displays the history, culture and the evolution of wheat, one of the world's main food sources.
Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, one of the founders of a popular theory called loop quantum gravity, reads mostly classic literature.
To many people's surprise, a book on anthropology by an Israeli historian captivated Chinese readers, as it did audiences all over the world.
Unlike most famous directors who prefer to receive interviewers in a heavily-guarded room, Dai Sijie insisted that he be interviewed in a bar.
Zhang Qigang, a cultural relic repair technician, makes a rubbing of a piece of relic at Liaoning Provincial Museum in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province, May 17, 2016.
Perhaps, Shenzhen in Guangdong province is the best reflection of Chinese urbanization in the past decades.
The 'mother of Chinese dance', Dai Ailian was remembered at Beijing's Tianqiao Theater last week with a gala staged by the National Ballet of China and the Beijing Dance Academy.
The excavations of a Western Han Dynasty tomb, a large-scale Neolithic hydraulic project and a famous warship that has been resting in waters since 1894 are among China's top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2015.
Graduates of the University of Mining and Technology at Yinchuan College in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region seem to have taken the photo shoot to a new level.