Late Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen once said, "When you look at a painting, you are looking into a different country, into someone else's imagination — how they saw it."
In recent years, villagers in suburban Beijing have been hosting tourists in bed-and-breakfast spaces, young people have been returning to their hometowns to develop businesses and working teams have been engaged in rural revitalization.
When the popular TV series Draw the Line was shot in Hunan province earlier this year, three special "staffers" supervised every detail throughout the entire shooting, which lasted more than 150 days.
Research teams from Lanzhou are unlocking the mysteries of the Yellow River's past and trying to understand how to protect the mighty waterway and its environs in the future.
The ancient Chinese concept of jingshizhiyong promotes studying existing conditions to produce the best results.
A self-taught painter in Chongqing who spent four years creating 100 illustrations of 100 cities in China, has attracted a lot of attention online.
Over the past three years, Kang Jian has created more than 400 dough sculptures and become a city-level inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage in Mohe, Heilongjiang province.
Some 70 paintings, watercolors, prints, lacquer paintings and mixed-media works by young artists from or based in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province and Jinan, Shandong province, are now on display at Shandong News Art Gallery through Oct 30.
Chinese authorities have recently issued a master plan for the preservation of ancient books.
Tourists visit the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall in Beijing, capital of China, Oct 22, 2022.