Bardish Chagger, Canadian minister of Small Business and Tourism, said China has become Canada's largest source of overseas tourists for the first time in the country's history.
The new season of a documentary series, "Every Treasure Tells a Story", will show the stories behind the artifacts from three periods in imperial China.
A "comfort women" advocacy group in San Francisco is working to promote a Chinese film about those victims in an effort to raise international awareness of the issue.
Beijing Symphony Orchestra gave a recital under the baton of conductor Tan Lihua, with a repertoire including Tales from the Vienna Woods, a waltz by Johann Strauss II, The 1812 Overture by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsk and the Carmen Overture by French composer, Georges Bizet.
The curtain will rise for the 14th China International Chorus Festival on July 19 at Beijng's Wukesong Arena, with 308 choirs from 59 countries and regions around the globe joining the event.
Opening to a box office haul of over 300 million yuan ($44.9 million), Jiang Wen's latest epic Hidden Man may have proved a hit with domestic audiences, but it has still failed to knock off Dying to Survive from the top of China's box office charts.
A number of theater groups from across the world staged their musical productions in the southern city of Daegu from June 22 to July 8 at the 12th Daegu International Musical Festival.
The second season of highly rated documentary If National Treasures Could Talk will make a comeback on China Central Television on July 23 (Monday). A total of 25 episodes will feature artifacts kept at museums across the country which are of both historic significance and artistic sophistication.
In the scorching days of summer, it is better to go to exhibitions to cool yourself off and get in touch with your inner self through the arts than to stay outside roasting in the high temperatures. Here's your guide to exhibitions in Beijing during the dog days of summer.
More than 15,000 members of 308 choirs from across the globe will participate in the 14th China International Chorus Festival (CICF).
The fantasy epic film Asura, which has been boasted to be one of the most expensive films ever made in China, has suspended its nationwide release since Sunday after investors saw financial disaster ahead.
A Chinese contemporary architecture exhibition kicked off on July 11 in the Fijian capital of Suva.