A young vendor from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has recently gone viral for baking fresh naan on the streets of Xi'an, Shaanxi province. Eager residents arrive hours before he starts selling each day.
Traditional Yi embroidery is taking new forms in Yuxi, Yunnan province, where artisans are turning inherited patterns into fridge magnets, hairbands and other products to keep the craft in use and attract new customers.
At the opening ceremony of East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai last month, Russian freshman Kseniia Kozhukhova, majoring in business administration, took the stage as the international student representative.
During severe typhoons, Chinese and Vietnamese doctors have joined forces to transport patients through the "1369 Life Express", a real-life medical rescue channel operating between China's Dongxing and Vietnam's Mong Cai.
At the Changsha Tongguan Kiln Museum in Hunan province, Rachid El Housseini Hilal, a Moroccan student at Hangzhou Dianzi University, was fascinated by centuries-old ceramics bearing Arabic inscriptions.
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For most of the past decade, Tan Jinan's travel business focused on helping Chinese tourists travel abroad. Foreign visitors occasionally sought her help, but they were never her main clientele.
Beijing lion dance master Yang Jingwei takes on four young apprentices, hoping to pass a 300-year-old folk tradition to a new generation. Chen Nan reports.
A chance discovery unearthed a royal treasure trove and brought an extraordinary woman of ancient China into sharper focus. Fifty years after the discovery of her tomb, Fu Hao continues to fascinate scholars, while questions about her life and the world she inhabited remain unanswered.
From a boy's memory in 1926 to excavations in the last few years, a site in Xiyin village has been at the heart of Chinese archaeology, Wang Ru and Zhu Xingxin report in Yuncheng, Shanxi.
Standing on his balcony in Hongjiang village, artist Wang Huaxiang imagined the surrounding karst peaks as horses galloping across the horizon. The image inspired the Central Academy of Fine Arts professor to create a sculpture that would bring the local landscape to life.