Beijing Marriott Hotel Changping, scheduled to open this month, will comprise part of a new landmark leisure facility - Fun Capital Complex - in the north of the city.
The pastime of flying lanterns goes back centuries in China, where they are symbols of peace and good fortune, but that tradition is now under attack.
The inhabitants of a village in Shandong are tasting the fruits of a government drive to raise rural living standards.
The new Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts in Central has finally been unveiled. Encompassing a former police station, prison, magistracy and living quarters, director Timothy Calnin thinks "for most visitors, the big reveal will be how extensive it is".
The then 18-year-old artist Wang Ximeng from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) painted A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains, one of the most important pieces in China's fine art history. Centuries later, an 18-year-old singer, Chinese singer-actor Yiyang Qianxi, one of the members of the Chinese boy band TFBoys, pays tribute to him in a song.
Herders in the Sanjiangyuan area in northwest China's Qinghai province have always resented the snow leopard which lives in the region, but a new pilot insurance program could mitigate the situation and help with the protection of the animal.
A landmark exhibition explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in the contemporary art world.
Beijing has issued a guideline for restaurant toilets, to improve sanitary conditions of the city's 5,000 restaurants this year, Beijing Youth Daily reported Friday.
When Chinese writer Rao Xueman was still a teenager more than 30 years ago, she wrote a 10,000-character letter to her idol, a popular singer from Taiwan named Qi Qin.
Shenshan Fair, launched by EVE·China Craftsmanship, opened at Parkview Green Mall in Beijing on Aug 1. The unique market with the atmosphere of traditional Chinese handicraft culture will last until Sept 22.
The renovation of a Great Wall section in Beijing has started, with the help of both governmental and social funds, according to a statement from the China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation (CFCHC) on Wednesday.
A crackdown on vulgar online content has seen the removal of thousands of videos and online music, as well as cartoons, and investigations into musical works advocating fascism or militarism, China's cultural authority said Thursday.
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