A former businessman, initially motivated by his desire to explore the unknown in the wild, has driven across the dunes of Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region again and again, most of the time on his own.
DELFT, the Netherlands－Delft, the Dutch city renowned for its blue pottery, launched on last Saturday an international exhibition of pottery artworks that pays tribute to an ancient Chinese culture dating back thousands of years.
For music lovers, the joy of walking into a record store, flipping through album covers and holding a physical disc cannot be replaced by clicking a download button on digital music platforms.
Chinese scientific researchers on May 4 established an automatic meteorological monitoring station at an altitude of over 8,800 meters, making it the world's highest of its kind, on Mount Qomolangma, known in the West as Mount Everest, on the China-Nepal border.
The 12th "China Tourism Day", a promotion event, was launched in Singapore on May 19.
China's total box office earnings this year have reached 15 billion yuan ($2.22 billion), largely generated by films released during the week-long Spring Festival holiday ending on Feb 6.
Dong Changkai, 60, teamed up with four other off-road vehicle drivers and drove across the Taklimakan Desert, the world's second largest drifting desert, to create a route in the shape of the map of China to express their love for the country and its spectacular landscape.
The total number of Chinese museums rose by 395 to 6,183 in 2021, 90 percent of them offering free admission, said a senior cultural official Wednesday.
According to the China Book Critic Society, a total of 12 newly published books were recommended in April. Here is the list.
It is speculated that China has a history of alcoholic beverage production dating back more than 5,000 years. The speculation is based on written records and even legends.
A money pot might carry a sweet childhood memory for some. But as early as 2,000 years ago, in today's Yunnan Province of southwest China, it means wealth, status, and power.
What was school life like in China's Xinjiang in ancient times? A document unearthed in 1969 in Astana ancient cemetery in Turpan, eastern Xinjiang, offers an intriguing glimpse.
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