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In tune with young musicians

2023-08-17 08:08

After postponing its programs in 2022, the Beijing Music Festival, in its 26th year, will return this coming September and October with a special format that combines the 25th and 26th events into one big bumper event.

Giving the lion dance more bite

2023-08-17 07:59

The lively and robust beat of gongs and drums from Yang Feilong's training facility can be heard more than a kilometer away.

Students impressed by hometown development

2023-08-16 15:46

A group of rural students recently visited Chongwen e-commerce industrial park in Zhili village, Shandong province. The trip was organized by local authorities to allow youngsters experience the development of their rural hometown and encourage those with entrepreneurial ideas to contribute to local development.

Key buildings on schedule for completion in Tongzhou

2023-08-16 15:38

Three buildings, a theater, a museum, and a library, are expected to be completed and ready for acceptance inspection by the end of September, according to local authorities of Tongzhou district in Beijing.

China's summer box office likely to break record

2023-08-16 15:33

With a total of 132 movies, including films set to be released in the coming weeks, China's summer season box office has raked in a whopping 17 billion yuan ($2.3 billion), signaling a remarkable recovery.

Film takes comic view of lengths parents go to get their child an education

2023-08-16 15:28

During the premiere of his upcoming film Papa in Beijing on Tuesday, director and scriptwriter Su Liang revealed that he had "infiltrated" parents in search of realistic details for the movie during school breaks.

Colors, texts and poems, the gateways to an artist's world

2023-08-16 15:22

Wang Bo, who lives and works in Beijing, is well versed in using vibrant colors, in a bold way, to explore the relations between time and space, complexity and simplicity, by which he hopes to challenge people's established aesthetic views.

Women profit as they keep silk ball tradition alive

2023-08-16 15:22

With support from the local government and aided by the development of a professional cooperative, nearly 100 female residents of Zhaokang village in Xiangfen county of Linfen, Shanxi province, have increased their incomes by making Taiping xiuqiu — balls made with strips of silk.

Plucky summer students make harps sing

2023-08-16 15:14

In 2011, when harpist Wang Guan launched a summer camp program at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing as part of the Gateway to Arts Summer Festival, there were only 30 students and none of whom knew anything about the harp.

Surfskating is far more than flips and fun

2023-08-16 14:27

High-speed sport builds community, and helps online youth form real life connections with their city and other people, Xing Wen reports.

China-Kenya film festival launched amid call to strengthen cultural ties

2023-08-16 09:06

The China-Kenya film festival was launched Monday night at an upscale shopping mall north of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, with senior officials renewing calls for enhanced Sino-Kenyan cultural ties.

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