In a dimly lit gallery in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Zhou Jie stood before a life-sized plaster cast of a Pompeii victim, who was encased in volcanic ash nearly 2,000 years ago in what is now southern Italy.
When Alice Schoenfeld (1921-2019), an internationally acclaimed violinist and educator, visited Harbin in Heilongjiang province around a decade ago, she exclaimed, "It's a beautiful city. It's a beautiful country. This year's competition (takes place) in beautiful Harbin. It is a music city."
Unknown to many, Guyuan, a city in northwestern China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, was a strategic stronghold and intersection of cultures.
Miao artisans use their heritage training to inject vitality into local economies and cultural preservation efforts, Yang Feiyue reports.
Writers take a unified stand that though technology is powerful, it cannot beat humans' 'firsthand' experience, Yang Yang reports.
Visitors flock to seaside community for 11 days of art and performances, Cheng Yuezhu reports in Qinhuangdao, Hebei.
In a dimly lit psychiatric hospital, three men claim to be insane.
When the world's highest plateau collides with the Yellow River, the planet's fifth-longest waterway, the result is dramatic yet delicate.
By the time the sun rises over the rolling grasslands of Qinghai province's Gonghe county, 42-year-old Zhao Guofu is already tending to his flock. Sheep dot the pastures like soft clouds beneath a vast sea of photovoltaic panels that stretch as far as the eye can see.
Village rises from ashes of war to become a model of rural vitalization, Zhao Ruixue reports in Zaozhuang, Shandong.
Eighty years ago, after 14 years of arduous struggle, the Chinese people achieved a great victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45), which also marked the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War.
No matter the desert, Yang Shanlong, a researcher at the Dunhuang Academy in Gansu province, is devoted to prolonging the life of the earthen heritages that are key testimonies to history.