British science fiction television show Doctor Who has released a set of Chinese-style posters recently.
China had 225,000 bookstores and sales outlets for books at the end of 2018, a 4.3 percent increase from the previous year, according to an annual report on the country's bookstore industry released on Jan 8.
Popular titles in China in 2018 other than educational books (ranked by sales, data provided by research firm Openbook)
Sales go up in China, driven by e-commerce and demand for textbooks and educational literature, Xing Yi reports.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Cold (Chinese: 大寒), the 24th solar term, begins this year on Jan 20 and ends on Feb 2.
For Chinese composer Zhang Qianyi, his muse is the country's ethnic groups.
Winter sports such as ice hockey, skiing and figure skating are becoming increasingly popular as the 2022 Winter Olympics approaches.
The opening ceremony of the Year of Education of the Republic of Belarus in China was held recently at Dalian University of Technology in Liaoning province, attracting representatives from the educational authorities and universities of both sides.
The 2019 China Bookstore Conference was held in Beijing on Jan 8, during which 16 bookstores were named "the most beautiful bookstores in China", following a public vote.
A book named after the popular China Central Television's literary talkshow "The Readers Ⅱ" was launched at a press conference at the National Museum of China recently.
After a long break, actress Bai Baihe returns to limelight for the upcoming romantic comedy A Boyfriend for My Girlfriend, which will open on Feb 5.
Known for always being tight-tipped about his new releases, Stephen Chow released a new poster to unveil E Jingwen as the female lead of his upcoming release The New King of Comedy on Wednesday.