China has been a source of fascination for much of my life, right from my childhood reading stories about the great country of the East in comics and storybooks to watching kung fu (which I'd later learn the word is actually gongfu) movies.
In a well-lit studio, 18-year-old Dong Run shyly introduced a carved lacquer plaque to arts and crafts masters who stepped into an art school in early April.
In a lush tea garden in the southern Chinese city of Huizhou, Guangdong province, a humanoid robot named Xunxiao delicately plucks tender tea leaves alongside workers.
Some 20 years ago at Beijing's Poly Theatre, tenor Dai Yuqiang starred as Alfredo Germont in La Traviata alongside soprano Yao Hong as Violetta Valery.
As the April sun bathes Yunnan province in golden light, the Dai ethnic inhabitants have transformed their homeland into a jubilant aquatic playground for the annual poshuijie, or water splashing festival, which has attracted visitors from China and abroad.
Shuangjiang county in Linchang city, Southwest China's Yunnan province, welcomed the traditional Water-Splashing Festival on April 16. Tourists joined locals in passing on blessings as they splashed water on each other.
Tan Yingjie's ongoing exhibition at the Wind H Art Center in Beijing shows how urban development has reshaped people's sense of space and time, living experiences and memories.
Conducted by Huang Yi, the Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra performed at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Thursday.
Northward, a popular TV series, has boosted tourism to Kunshan, Jiangsu province — one of the main filming locations — with the number of visitors during Qingming Festival in early April surging by 608 percent year-on-year, according to a recent seminar in Beijing.
Pitch session wraps up annual Macao comedy event, as stars share their secrets, Xu Fan reports.
Editor's note: Amity between the people holds the key to sound state-to-state relations. China Daily will come out with a series of stories highlighting Chinese cities' special connections with sister cities, mutual understanding, trust and friendship between peoples of different countries and cultural backgrounds, and shining light on "city diplomacy".
Producers of The Angkor Code, a feature-length movie set to be coproduced by China and Cambodia, signed a memorandum of understanding in Phnom Penh on April 11, as part of a new project to boost cultural exchanges between the two countries.
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