After cutting a palm leaf into three pieces and knotting them together, Hu Licheng quickly weaved the stomach of a cricket. "Hold this for me," he said as he handed the partly-finished handicraft to a boy near the gate of Jing'an Park in Shanghai. He then made the cricket's head and wings.
Running is simple. If you can walk, you can run. Running is inclusive. It is a sport for anyone, at any age and from any profession. It does not require a lot of monetary inputs. All you need is a pair of running shoes, and a willingness to find a little more meaning in your life to make it colorful.
A transformed economic model is their only way out of it, as creativity and innovation supersede manufacturing and production amid the process of industrial upgrading.
The world's second-largest movie market grossed about 32 billion yuan from more than 320 movies in the first nine months of 2015. Will it hit 40 billion?
Most of them dropped out of high school because of poverty. They were farmers before changing, ahem, their profession. They have appeared on TV and performed at various galas. To top it all, they have also performed on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, the most-watched Chinese TV show. And, of course, they have made millions of people laugh. Meet the exponents of errenzhuan, a popular folk art form of Northeast China that involves singing and dancing, and is known for its humorous, improvisational and populist jokes.
Xue Kaizhong was not surprised when the gold and silver coins he bought on Aug 27 for 6,600 yuan ($1,033) were worth 9,000 yuan in mid-September.
In its 6th year, Beijing Design Week is embracing this movement at the Millennium Monument with architects' visions for a sustainable city life.
Universal Studios has just contracted to build a theme park in Beijing. Traditional and modern Chinese culture elements have been incorporated in the planning.
Several Chinese museums have jumped on the bandwagon of publishing graphics to color to persuade the country's social media addicts to put down their phones for a while and return to simpler pleasures.
The new Chinese box office record breaker Lost in Hong Kong received quite mixed reviews from the public.
An exhibition displaying old royal craftsmanship began on Friday at China's former imperial palace.
China's high-speed rail won the "Classic Design Award" at this year's Beijing International Design Week, standing out from 10 nominees.
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