Highlighting its many charms, the ancient city welcomes guests while meeting challenges of preservation and sustainability, Yang Yang and Zhu Xingxin report in Pingyao, Shanxi.
With visa-free policies and optimized measures, international travelers are flocking in greater numbers to China, Yang Feiyue reports.
Tian'anmen Square and Chang'an Avenue in Beijing have been decorated with flower displays ahead of the upcoming National Day holiday.
The 5th Oriental Civilization Forum, hosted by the Mencius Foundation, was held on Saturday in Beijing.
The Beauty of Chinese Culture, a book organized by the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences and created in collaboration with several experts and scholars in the cultural and artistic fields, and published by CITIC Press Group, was released in August.
Tsinghua University has long championed athletic excellence, and this year, three of its students proudly represented China at the Paris Olympics.
Patrollers have made the first discovery of Mute Swans breeding in the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Dongying, Shandong province, this summer, with a pair of adult Mute Swans playing and foraging with their six cygnets captured.
The cross-border tourism train, StarExpress, connecting China and Laos, kicked off its maiden voyage on Tuesday from Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province.
A gala featuring diverse art forms, from the 600-year-old Kunqu Opera to a children's chorus, was held at Zhongshan Park in Beijing on Monday, unveiling a festival titled The Heart of Beijing, which will feature a variety of programs till the end of this year.
To connect the various cultures thriving along the Yangtze since ancient times, Zhangjiagang, a city at the waterway's mouth, in Jiangsu province, began in 2004 a cultural festival to celebrate the vigor and diversity of the extensive regions by the river.
Pairs of old and young play table tennis, and a father teaches his daughter play badminton. Several seniors sit on the nearby benches, sunbathing. It's a common scene of the playground in front of the Party Service Center of Donghu community, or East Lake community, in Kashgar, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
The "Three Carvings in Wuyuan" include carvings on stones, bricks and wood, with wood carving being the most representative.