Featuring Chinese festival culture and a technology-enhanced visual spectacle, a stunning ceremony took the world's breath away on Friday night as President Xi Jinping declared the opening of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.
Frequent traveler Qi Xiaoya has a sweet tooth and enjoys visiting dessert shops in different cities to sample delicious cakes.
When people come to the Wandering Moose Cafe in Liaoning province's Dalian Jinpu New Area, they are able to taste specialty coffee and sample the flavor of Canada.
Threats from climate change and to biodiversity appeared to be overshadowed last year as the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, along with regional conflicts and political differences.
In the Flushing neighborhood of New York City's Queens borough, Chen Yuzhu opened his first Chinese beef rice noodles restaurant in 2014. He then took the authentic flavor of his childhood memory to three other states in the US, building a recognized brand.
Tanioka Kazuyuki, 48, said running a restaurant is like shooting a film, because he needs to arrange everything, from interior decoration to provision of dishes; from recruiting employees and serving customers to managing finances. He also has to deal with unexpected challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
As Olympic fever grips the nation once again, the buildup to the Games has instilled a passion for winter sports into China's youngsters.
On the night of Jan 22, haggis and whiskey were offered at the Red Lion pub in the Kaifu district of Changsha, Hunan province. Joyful participants read poems and performed the Ceilidh, a traditional Scottish dance, to celebrate the coming of Burns Night.
When Hu Yuzhou first arrived in Burkina Faso as the deputy head of a Chinese agricultural expert team in 2018, he found the mission confronting multiple challenges-recurring droughts, land degradation and dire poverty among rural residents there.
It is time to present a modern China and ordinary Chinese people, especially the younger generation, to the world instead of always focusing on the country’s 5,000-year history, Zhang Yimou, chief director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, said in Beijing on Friday.
The Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony has started. The program is divided into 15 segments, including the parade of athletes and the lighting of the Olympic cauldron.
The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Start of Spring (Chinese: 立春), the first solar term of the year, begins this year on Feb 4 and ends on Feb 18.