In a small classroom in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province, a group of young models practice for a catwalk show, with an aura of joy and confidence.
After a series of spins, jumps, lifts and other difficult movements to the music, some 40 pupils ended an aerobic dance with a final pose. Off the stage, their teacher Xia Mengxing took a photo and gave a thumbs-up.
A theater workshop seeks to contribute to children's overall development.
As a freshman in college, Du Haiying, 18, found everything on campus exciting and could not wait to share it with her "family". Du was born into a poor household in Leiba village in Southwest China's Guizhou province.
The third Global Women's Development Forum was held in Jiande city, East China's Zhejiang province, during the weekend.
The case of the missing movie is itself almost like a film plot. The Cave of the Silken Web, a 1927 silent film, was returned to China from Norway seven years ago. Recently, it joined 11 other classics to attract die-hard movie fans in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province.
Linquan county of Fuyang, Anhui province, known as the "hometown of acrobatics", has a long history with the art form.
Composer Tan Dun leads the China Philharmonic Orchestra at the closing concert of this year's Beijing Music Festival.
Writer Eileen Chang's novella Love in a Fallen City was recently adapted into a play and previewed in Rizhao, Shandong province on Oct 21.
A photo exhibition ongoing at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing until Nov 3, provides a panoramic view of Qinghai's ecological systems. Some 200 snapshots on show were selected from thousands of submissions from across the country earlier this year.
A long-term exhibition at the National Museum of China shows a selection of rubbings of moya writings and characters from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) to modern times. Yongzhou was the habitat of several established artists and intellectuals, and the works on show reflect the cultural attainment of some of these figures and their social concerns.
A Sinology camp for young scholars was held by the International Confucian Association, Beijing Language and Culture University and Nishan World Center for Confucian Studies in East China's Shandong province and Beijing on Oct 15-20.