An initiative aimed at promoting collaboration and resource sharing among educational institutions to advance the education of young people for sustainable development has recently been launched in Beijing.
When Li Yong took the train to the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, more than 1,500 kilometers away from his hometown — Liyang, Jiangsu province, he was just 2 years old.
Editor's note: From a place of exile to a cultural and economic powerhouse, the influence of Jiangnan still echoes in China today. The next three pages will take you on a journey through this verdant land's eternal poetry, art and spirit.
One exhibit stands out from the ongoing exhibition China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art. It is a map — a rubbing to be exact — of China's earliest surviving city plan to have been engraved on a stone slab. Within an area of 5 square meters, the rubbing, created in the first half of the 20th century, depicts modernday Suzhou, featuring six water gates and more than 300 bridges, validating the city's entitlement to the name "Venice of the East".
'It is the time for cherries and bamboo shoots in Jiangnan/the moist greens are refreshing/As the rain falls, peach blossoms arrive with the rising water/the crops sprout as spring hurries into the season."
The life story of Nalan Xingde, a famous poet of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), has been turned into a stage production by the Beijing Quju Opera Troupe. The play, Under the Lunar Glow, premiered in Beijing on Wednesday.
As the Chinese New Year of the Loong (or Chinese dragon) approaches, pre-orders for China's 2024 New Year commemorative coins and commemorative banknotes opened on Jan 3 at 10 PM Beijing Time.
For Beijing art aficionados, X Museum, which positions itself as an ultra-contemporary art museum, is the go-to place for immersing themselves in the latest works of up-and-coming international artists by checking out their first China and even Asia solos.
Hundreds of cultural and people-to-people exchanges between China and France will be held in 2024 during the China-France Year of Culture and Tourism.
The Russian musical production Onegin's Demon had its premiere at Shanghai Culture Square on Jan 4.
Harbin, the capital city of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, welcomed nearly 3.05 million visitors, raking in 5.91 billion yuan (about $832.39 million) of tourism revenue, during the three-day New Year holiday, which ended Monday.
Uygur musician promotes the beauty of the region's traditional instruments and music.
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