As stargazing becomes increasingly popular in Beijing, the city's suburban areas, where there is a better natural environment and clearer skies than downtown, are seeing flocks of visitors, happy to pay big money for the experience of being blanketed by stars at night.
It was 113 years ago that the Great Wall in the rugged mountains northwest of Beijing was first pierced by a railway linking Beijing and Zhangjiakou in Hebei province.
When Wang Haitao was told he'd be operating the bullet train on its maiden trip along the newly opened Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway on Dec 30, 2019, the then 27-year-old train driver was thrilled.
China has made notable progress in improving water quality and ecology, and restoring biodiversity in the Yangtze River Basin, since a 10-year fishing ban took effect in certain stretches of the Yangtze, China's longest river, on Jan 1, 2021.
"If someone has not seen Saturn and its rings, they should do so at least once in their lives. It's the prettiest among all the principal planets."
Datong, as an ancient city in North China's Shanxi province, has served as a military stronghold and commercial hub for most of its history since 300 BC. The nomads from Mongolia to its north, the Han people from central China to its south as well as peoples from Central Asia to its west and Northeast Asia to its east traded and fought with each other in Datong, making it a crossroad of civilizations.
The Mianhua Sinkhole in Mianhua village of Luocheng Mulam autonomous county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, has been developed into a tourist resort featuring geological wonders and ethnic cultures.
Following The Bravest, director Tony Chan has returned to his familiar zone of real-life themes with his latest outing being Ordinary Hero, a movie based on a touching coordinated rescue that travels across 1,400 kilometers.
Forty-seven Chinese culture relic objects retrieved from overseas are on exhibition at Minhang Museum in Shanghai from Sept 26 to Dec 18.
China Daily is inviting submissions of photos and short videos that depict the beautiful country of China from Aug 16 until Oct 20, 2022.
Listen to Your Inner Ape, a one-man show, produced by the Drum Tower West Theater in downtown Beijing, has been enthralling thousands of theatergoers and non-theatergoers over the last few months.
With its presale box office surpassing 27 million yuan ($3.74 million), the upcoming movie Home Coming has currently topped the presale box office charts for the National Day holiday, which will last from Oct 1 to 7.
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