In a new phenomenon, many tourists are taking bullet trains to smaller cities in China to catch much cheaper flights for their vacations abroad
Saulebek Kabylbekov is a 66-year-old Kazakh ophthalmologist at Daqing Ophthalmology Hospital who can communicate fluently with patients in a northeastern Chinese dialect.
In Zhuang villages, residents gathered in courtyards chatting leisurely; during Tibetan New Year celebrations, people in colorful costumes weaving through the lively crowds; in houses, chickens pecking insects and grains from the ground, cats and dogs lying by doorsteps, and golden corn and fresh fruits and vegetables drying on rooftops.
It was a freezing, moonless night on Tibetan New Year's Eve in 1954 when 7-year-old Tseyang sat on her father's shoulders on a muddy path in Shigatse of the Xizang autonomous region.
For more than a decade, Dradul has worked as a guardian of a wetland near Mapam Yumco Lake, which, nestled at an altitude of over 4,500 meters in Burang county of Ngari prefecture, Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, is the world's highest freshwater lake.
During a visit to a park in southern Beijing, Shi Yifan happened to find a bookstore nestled within woodland. Since then, the 30-year-old has come to read every couple of weeks.
Mini suits, pants, hanfu (traditional Chinese clothing), Victorian dresses — these aren't children's clothes nor costumes, but "doll outfits" that young Chinese adults collect for their figurines.
The recent animated blockbuster Nobody is setting records and moving audiences to tears. Its retelling of the classic tale Journey to the West, colored with references to real-world locations, is inspiring some to make their own journey.
Four years ago, Malaysian writer Li Zishu published her full-length novel Liu Su Di (Worldly Land) on the Chinese mainland.
The Yangtze River Economic Belt, a key national development strategy, encompasses 11 provinces and municipalities, stretching across China's eastern, central, and western regions.
The Yangtze River, a mother river of the Chinese nation and a core pillar of the country's development, is the world's third-longest river and the longest in China.
At a cultural exhibition in Hotan in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in mid-August, audiences watched in silence as polychromatic projections of the region's vibrant Atlas silk, famed for its multicolored resist-dyeing patterns, illuminated a digital screen.
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