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Artistry of ancient bronze casting given a modern look

2024-04-26 14:36

Huang Chenyu comes from a family in Zhejiang province that produced sculptors. His interest in sculpture, first nourished by the family business, has extended to works and crafts of different times, including the method of bronze casting which produced those fine examples centuries and millenniums back.

Visitors hop onboard charming ancient ferry culture

2024-04-26 08:55

Once a bustling hub on the Yangtze River, the Xijin ferry dock in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, has shaped the area's culture, architecture and folk customs.

A century of classroom revolutions

2024-04-26 08:51

The Miyun Reservoir in suburban Beijing, one of the largest water conservancy projects in North China, plays a significant role in providing water to the capital. But not many people know this major project was actually designed by a group of university students as their graduation project.

Teacher-turned-livestreamer inspires viewers to fall in love with books

2024-04-26 08:38

Hundreds of thousands of bookworms tuned in to Xinhua's livestream interview with teacher-turned-influencer Dong Yuhui on the eve of this year's World Book and Copyright Day, which fell on Tuesday.

A Chinese beat for the world stage

2024-04-26 08:34

Most Chinese born since the 1990s know the quote: "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration". This saying is frequently found on posters that grace their primary school classrooms' walls.

iQIYI launches over 300 titles to fuel growth

2024-04-25 15:44

iQIYI, an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, announced an exciting lineup of over 300 new titles across genres at the iQIYI 2024 World Conference held in Beijing on April 23-24. The company also introduced two new drama series brands and forged multiple strategic partnerships aimed at fueling growth with its premium content offerings and IP development.

Reality show turns young artists into influential agri-preneurs

2024-04-25 14:55

As Western audiences are eagerly awaiting the new season of Clarkson's Farm, a growing number of Chinese audiences are paying close attention to the day-to-day goings-on at a farm in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, where Become a Farmer Season 2, a hit farming-focused reality show available for streaming on iQIYI, is being made.

Industry forum sheds light on AI's role in filmmaking

2024-04-25 14:17

The 14th Beijing International Film Festival hosted an industry forum titled “Establishment and Breakthrough Amidst the Changing Film Industry Landscape,” on Sunday at the Langyuan Station, exploring how the film industry can both establish new approaches and break from traditions with emerging technologies.

The true story of a village's literary transformation

2024-04-25 09:05

In the 1950s, Zhou Libo (1908-79) wrote Shanxiang Jubian (Great Changes to Mountain Areas), a novel portraying the way the country's resolution on agricultural cooperatives boosted food production in a small village named Qingxi.

A man of words

2024-04-25 09:02

On the orange cover of the book Yisheng Yishi (roughly, a lifelong pursuit), a memoir by editor and publisher Li Xin about his four-decade career starting in 1982, is a black-and-white photo of him as a middle-aged man sitting at a desk under a lamp concentrating on a stack of papers — a draft of the Chinese version of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by US sociologist Ezra Feivel Vogel.

Bringing the history back to the homes

2024-04-25 08:56

The densely packed, historical buildings, with their mottled white walls and green moss on their black tiles, red lanterns hanging from their eaves and swaying in the wind, have a way of luring visitors into a sense of anachronism at Sanfang Qixiang.

Surprising encounters on streets where heritage lives on to this day

2024-04-25 08:47

We had to pilot our drone carefully to avoid a midair collision with a parrot.

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