A former businessman, initially motivated by his desire to explore the unknown in the wild, has driven across the dunes of Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region again and again, most of the time on his own.
Chinese scientific researchers on May 4 established an automatic meteorological monitoring station at an altitude of over 8,800 meters, making it the world's highest of its kind, on Mount Qomolangma, known in the West as Mount Everest, on the China-Nepal border.
China's total box office earnings this year have reached 15 billion yuan ($2.22 billion), largely generated by films released during the week-long Spring Festival holiday ending on Feb 6.
Dong Changkai, 60, teamed up with four other off-road vehicle drivers and drove across the Taklimakan Desert, the world's second largest drifting desert, to create a route in the shape of the map of China to express their love for the country and its spectacular landscape.
The total number of Chinese museums rose by 395 to 6,183 in 2021, 90 percent of them offering free admission, said a senior cultural official Wednesday.
According to the China Book Critic Society, a total of 12 newly published books were recommended in April. Here is the list.
A money pot might carry a sweet childhood memory for some. But as early as 2,000 years ago, in today's Yunnan Province of southwest China, it means wealth, status, and power.
What was school life like in China's Xinjiang in ancient times? A document unearthed in 1969 in Astana ancient cemetery in Turpan, eastern Xinjiang, offers an intriguing glimpse.
In many people's eyes, Sinology is about sophisticated classics that are difficult to comprehend, Sinology Around Us, a new collection on Sinology for teenagers, wants to change that stereotype.
A dozen of short films are not playing online as part of the Brazilian Short Film Festival, co-launched by the Brazilian embassy in China and curator Marcos Jorge, on the embassy's official accounts on major Chinese streaming platforms until May 29.
In Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, a major archaeology and restoration project ongoing at the site of Deshou Palace is expected to restore the complex and transform it into a Southern Song Dynasty Museum.
A national treasure, the bronze sword of Fuchai, king of the State of Wu in 495 BC, is on display in the west branch of the Suzhou Museum in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province to celebrate the International Museum Day. With its superior craftsmanship, the sword is still very sharp even after 2,400 years.
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