As digital reading and social media in China become more dominant in daily life, fewer people are reading books. This trend has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Retail book sales dropped by 5.08 percent in 2020, the first fall in two decades. Moreover, at the start of this year, at least 17 newspapers around the country announced their demise.
KUNMING－The number of Phayre's leaf monkeys, also known as Phayre's langurs, an endangered species, has been rising steadily in Southwest China's Yunnan province.
NAIROBI－Chinese and African young people on Friday held an online dialogue forum to explore innovative ways to promote conservation of biodiversity amid growing threats linked to human behavior and climatic stress.
The Italian artist Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) is not a complete stranger to Chinese people. His strong art style involving gray shades has been widely applied in decoration, fashion and many other fields. However, less is known about his life experience and career path. Like many artists, he is popularly referred to by his last name.
The Forbidden City, with a history spanning six centuries, has continuously inspired a sense of mystery and fascination both at home and abroad.
The eighth season of the popular talk show A Date with Luyu, hosted by the renowned TV anchorwoman Chen Luyu who is often dubbed "China's Oprah", has been released on Fujian's SETV this month.
Making a piece of Tianmu lacquerware is a complicated process involving 32 steps. As a practitioner of the intangible cultural heritage, Liu Qing from Hangzhou's Lin'an district, East China's Zhejiang province, is determined to use his hard-earned skills to make the perfect piece of lacquerware.
The first "Happy Chinese New Year" Culture Week for Chileans opened via livestream on YouTube on Jan 25, with the support of the Chinese embassy in Chile as well as the host, the Confucius Institute at the Frontiers University of Chile.
BEIJING－China will promote science and technology innovation in agriculture to support all-round rural revitalization in the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences said recently.
NANJING－China's first solar probe, Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory, or ASO-S, is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2022, marking the country's first-ever mission to observe the sun.
KUNMING－More than half a million people living on the southwestern Chinese border have thrown off the shackles of poverty, their ancestors having long been isolated from the rest of the world.
With the delayed commencement of the new semester and students being forced to embark on learning at home instead of in the classroom, university life was significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in China last year.
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