China saw a total of 195 million domestic tourist trips made during the four-day May Day holiday, up 13.7 percent from last year, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
As the ancient medicine becomes increasingly used overseas, experts agree on the need to accelerate certifications.
An exhibition celebrating late Chinese painter Wu Guanzhong's (1919-2010) 100th birthday opened Thursday at the National Art Museum of China.
This year marks the 140th anniversary of Albert Einstein's birth.
A new remake of Peking Opera classic "Farewell My Concubine" is expected to premiere for opera lovers in Beijing in late May.
Some of the biggest names in the world of conservation and wildlife protection converged in eastern China to attend Duke Kunshan University's inaugural Water Towns Environmental Film and Arts Festival.
Students and teachers from the United States took a course steeped in culture and history at a Beijing bookstore last month.
Generations of Chinese people growing up between the 1980s and the early 2000s will no doubt share fond collective memories of spending the long afternoons of their childhood summer vacations squeezed in front of small TV sets watching their favorite shows.
A touring digital exhibition of a former emperors' residence is to kick off in late April,the Beijing's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, and Shenzhen-based cultural company Artron, announced on Friday.
People taking a stroll along-side the canal in the Yuan Dadu City Wall Ruins Park in northern Beijing may be surprised to come across graffiti written in Roman script adorning some walls.
At the end of last year, Chiara Ye was invited to shoot the food and beverage pictures for the newly opened French cuisine restaurant Rive Gauche in Beijing. So, before the shoot, she kept asking questions to the executive chef Ivan Miguez about his food.
An ongoing exhibition in Hangzhou looks at three decades of designer Chi Wing Lo's work.