New awards aim to restore the dignity of China's music industry, lost due to piracy. Chen Nan reports.
Almost every Chinese grows up knowing the story of a young boy named Zhang Ga, and his determination to become a soldier.
The Grand Canal, spanning over 2,000 kilometers between Beijing and Hangzhou, was listed as a world heritage site in 2014. Currently, the construction of the Grand Canal cultural belt is a hot topic nationwide.
A new edition ofFortress Besieged will be released this week, the People's Literature Publishing House announced.The publisher also authorized iReader, a national reading platform based in Beijing, to have the book's exclusive digital copyright.
A recent online article entitled "In Beijing, 20 million people are pretending to live a life" went viral at the weekend and sparked a debate on life in the Chinese capital. On Thursday, People's Daily published a rebuttal, denouncing what it claimed was a "pretend life" that has been lived by both locals and immigrants.
Beijing has been ranked as the number one city for tourists on the Chinese mainland, according to a list published by news platforms Jiemian.com and toutiao.com.
Featuring almost 100 photographs taken by Chinese astronauts in space, a new exhibition of literally out-of-this-world photography opened at the Beijing Planetarium on Wednesday.
At the exhibition Sign, artists Zhu Yiqing and Xue Yongjun show paintings that feature portraits of such icons as Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe.
Amazon China, one of the largest online booksellers, unveiled the bestselling books in China for the first half of 2017 on Tuesday, disclosing Chinese people's reading habits.
Li Juan, a Xinjiang-based writer born in the 1970s, has won wide acclaim for her prose featuring Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region since she wrote for a newspaper.
The People's Liberation Army will mark the 90th anniversary of its founding on Aug 1.
The award ceremony of the 2017 Beijing Cultural Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was held on July 13.