James Cameron's hugely successful 2009 sci-fi film Avatar had a dramatic impact on French director Luc Besson's plans for his upcoming film.
The film, based on American novelist Steve Alten's 1997 novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, is about a China-led research program that encounters unknown creatures in the Mariana Trench.
Children with a genetic risk for obesity respond more strongly to fast food television advertising in a brain region associated with reward processing.
China released its annual characters and words of 2016 on Tuesday, with 规(rule) and 小目标(small goal) winning out among the candidate characters and words.
As the final chapter in this year's major events, the National Museum of China (NMC) in Beijing opened an exhibition of Saudi Arabian treasures on Tuesday, which will run until March 19. It's the first time that Saudi antiques are being displayed in China.
The China Music Industry Alliance was launched in Beijing at the Fourth China Music Industry Conference, which was held from Dec 15 to 18.
Hip-Hop Fusion, a Shenzhen-based company dedicated to promoting hip-hop culture in China, celebrated its 10th birthday at Beijing's Post Mountain Space, a live house venue in the capital recently.
Chinese singer-songwriter Zhang Ling gave a show at Modernsky Lab in Beijing on Dec 19 along with Japanese musician Shun Kikuta.
The first national youth orchestra was founded in the United Kingdom in 1948. And the NYO of the United States started in 2013, as a project of Carnegie Hall.
At the invitation of Holland International Cultural Cooperation Center and the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, a delegation from the China International Cultural Association and the Bureau for External Cultural Relations of China’s Ministry of Culture paid an official visit to Holland and Cape Verde between November 24 and December 1.
A survey on how people around the world perceive a range of issues relating to war indicates overwhelming agreement that wars should have limits.
China's Alibaba Pictures announced on Dec 16 it will begin shooting the fantasy epic film Gu Jian Qi Tan, or Legend of the Ancient Sword, and it is scheduled to be screened in 2018.