Lan Desheng picked up a sand-colored pottery shard, surveyed the fragment and fitted it into the back of a Terracotta Warrior figure.
He had run for 208 hours 35 minutes, the equivalent of more than eight days. So, when Pan Junfan managed to cross the finish line in Guazhou, Gansu province, on Sept 18, the tears began to flow. Not tears of exhaustion, not tears of frustration, but tears of pride and achievement.
In October comes the early spring in the southern hemisphere. Eleven teachers and students from the guzheng (Chinese zither) class of China Cultural Center in Wellington gave an impromptu performance at the Avalon Park, New Zealand.
On March 25, the Chinese Cultural Center in Cairo, together with the Egyptian Cartoon Association, launched an online exhibition of anti-epidemic cartoon works.
In late September, the Chinese embassy in Chile, together with the Confucius Institute at the University of St. Thomas in Chile, co-hosted an online photo exhibition with a seminar on the Forbidden City.
China's first university alliance on study of Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace, was launched in Beijing on Saturday.
XI'AN-With increasingly frequent film industry exchanges among countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, the 7th Silk Road International Film Festival highlighted the collaborative production of feature films, documentaries and animations.
With a stunning 10-day box-office haul surpassing 2 billion yuan ($297.5 million), the anthology blockbuster My People, My Homeland has propelled the recovery of Chinese film industry-and that's despite China's theaters still being limited to a maximum 75 percent seating capacity.
Twenty-nine pieces of works by five South Korean artists are featured at an exhibition organized by the China Cultural Center in Seoul.
Belgian pianist Jean-Francois Maljean's song, Chime of the Dawn Bells, released online on Feb 10, was dedicated to China and its people and expressed his support for the country's fight against the COVID-19 outbreak.
As the clock hit midnight on Oct 15, China saw this year’s box office taking reach 12.95 million yuan ($1.93 billion), helping the country overtake the North America to soar as the world’s largest movie market.
The virtual awards ceremony of the Natural History Museum's the 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year was held at London on Oct 13.