"The world is beautiful. Just listen."
As the hands of the clock approached 8 pm, Zhong Huile was busy checking his trumpet like suona, while his wife Chen Mengjing was tuning her guzheng-a traditional plucked, stringed instrument-one final time.
The West's colonization and plunder of Africa left very little evidence of the continent's past ways of life.
The Gede ruins offer insights into East Africa's past and opportunities for its future
The Teacher in Space Project of NASA, announced by the late US president Ronald Reagan in 1984, was the world's first attempt to send teachers to orbiting spacecraft and give lessons to students.
Space-based lectures, with the aim to popularize science, inspire generations. Zhao Lei reports.
Recreational vehicles are increasingly popular for those who want the journey of a lifetime, Wang Qian reports.
Longwang community is now the last shanty town in Luyang district in ever-expanding Hefei, capital of Anhui province. The area is home to thousands of migrant workers who have come from their rural hometowns to work in Hefei.
On the campus of the Zhenlong Primary School in Guangde, a county-level city in Anhui province, there is an enclosure that has a stable for two ponies and some cages for rabbits.
"A gong in the left hand, a drum in the right, come and sing songs, with the gong and drum in both hands."
No haste, no waste in this scientist's laboratory with infinite possibilities
Xierongzhongzi, also known as "Yak Dance" in Chinese, is a traditional Tibetan performance dating back more than 1,000 years, which combines vocal music, monologue, and dance. As an inheritor of this listed National Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sangzhu has performed Xierongzhongzi for more than four decades.