In the office of remote sensing scientist Liu Shaochuang, there is a huge photograph of a camel he snapped a decade ago in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Wearing camouflage, he crouched for hours by a pool of water in the Gobi Desert to capture the image.
Over the past 37 years, Zhuang Yuanjun has been devoted to his position working in the rural area of Linjiang city in Northeast China's Jilin province, where he has helped more than 200 students leave the remote mountain region.
When the curtain rose on the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Lohengrin on Feb 26, the audience got a taste of the Oscar-winning art director and costume designer Tim Yip's vision of Richard Wagner's romantic opera, which premiered in 1850 and was one of the highlights of the composer's career.
Ma Xiaolin, member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and director of Henan Museum, is dedicated to the protection and revitalization of cultural relics. Over the years, he has been submitting proposals on heritage preservation and utilization, as well as developing innovative approaches to introduce traditional culture to people's everyday lives.
Shanghai Culture Square theater announced the launch of a new musical center and its first foreign musical production in three years at the opening of this year's Shanghai International Musical Festival on Monday.
Shanghai is known as a highly urbanized megacity that is home to futuristic skyscrapers, but behind this modern facade lies a growing movement that hearkens back to its past.
Wang Junzi just returned a few days ago from a porcelain exchange meeting in Japan. "I shared our Ru porcelain culture with artists from abroad and also got a better look at what has recently been going on with porcelain development," says Wang, who is from Qingliangsi village, Baofeng county, Pingdingshan city, Central China's Henan province.
XI'AN — While rice and wheat are the two most commonly consumed cereal grains worldwide, a study covering more than 100,000 people in Northwest China has revealed that choosing rice as a staple food may result in a lower risk of obesity.
With a relaxing pace and idyllic scenery, the newly airing TV drama Meet Yourself is winning over viewers' hearts, with many saying it's quite "soul-healing" in this era full of anxiety and competition.
KUNMING — Forest police from Hongtupo township, Southwest China's Yunnan province, recently finished their annual patrol of a famed stopover site and habitat for migratory birds in the Ailao Mountain area.
NANNING — For generations, the longest distance that many villagers in Zhadong, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, could fathom was that of the journey between their village and Nanning, the regional capital.
The hustle and bustle of life's routines, wandering back and forth from the ideal to reality, and the inner turbulence hidden behind a social mask. Some from the young generations have recorded their daily fragmentations in lines of poetry, not necessarily neat and metrical with verse, many with a hint of the burlesque, on a video-sharing platform over the last few years.