The Palace Museum in Beijing, or the Forbidden City, has received more than 100 million visitors since Jan. 2012, the museum said.
China's education and finance authorities plan to recruit 10,000 teachers beyond retiring age in the coming three years to teach in primary and junior middle schools in rural areas.
The National Centre for the Performing Arts' International Opera Film Exhibition will take place at 17 cinemas in 10 Chinese cities - including Beijing, Dalian, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Chengdu - from Aug 4 to Oct 13, and will see 265 screenings of 13 opera film productions by four of the world's leading theater companies.
"Three Comedies by Ding Xilin" is part of a Beijing theater festival, that will see 20 original Chinese plays performed between Aug 1 and Sept 1, Chen Nan reports.
A visit to Beijing-born artist Shao Fan's spacious home and studio on the city's northeastern outskirts reminds you of the sophisticated lifestyle led by Song Dynasty (960-1279) scholars.
The director of China's second-highest grossing film stole the spotlight in New York City.
Guizhou's Ziyun county plans to host a football event for players aged under 11 next month.
The Sino-US coproduction Magical Circus: Animal Crackers, featuring the voices of Sylvester Stallone and Ian McKellen in its English-dubbed version, will be unleashed in Chinese cinemas on July 21.
Twenty activities will take place all across the country, marking a new era in Sino-Arab cultural communication, said officials at a press conference of the 4th Arab Art Festival in Chengdu Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Monday.
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.