Editor's Note: In 2025, China's youth are crafting a new cultural narrative — not by following a timeline, but by mapping it across the country. This annual review shifts the focus from chronology to geography, capturing a regional resurgence through nine compelling stories. From digital village builders to Tibetan language songwriters, from Cantonese advocates to rural revitalizers, young people are rediscovering and reinterpreting local heritage. They are not merely inheritors of tradition but active creators of it. This report highlights how a new generation is planting its future in native soil, forging a dynamic connection between youth and homeland.
In the dim light of the China National Acrobatic Troupe's rehearsal hall, the sounds of swift footfalls and controlled breaths reverberate through the air.
Few film franchises have witnessed the unprecedented expansion of China's film market like Avatar has.
More than 150 years ago, a wooden sailing vessel laden with commodities sank off the coast of Hengsha Island, Shanghai.
In the open kitchen of a hotel in Southwest China's Chongqing, the air was thick with the mouthwatering aroma of baking dough and sizzling meat, as executive chef Francesco Sanna was busy preparing his signature creation, the Chongqing Spicy Chicken Pizza.
The Path of Mastery, an exhibition at the National Art Museum of China is currently showcasing Huizhou-style wood and bamboo carvings created by Hong Jianhua.
The stage is enveloped on all sides, creating a compact, almost claustrophobic space crafted from wood, with a design that evokes both intimacy and tension.
To the rhythm of lusheng woodwind pipes and the scent of sticky rice cakes, a village in southwest China's Guizhou province celebrated its annual Dong Ethnic New Year Festival over the weekend.
Famed worldwide for its unique Danxia landforms and prized Wuyi rock tea, Wuyi Mountain in East China's Fujian province has long been a muse, captured in poetry and sipped from cups.
Over the past few months, the tires of Ulianova Vlada's vehicle have tracked more than 35,000 kilometers across the roof of the world.
On a quiet morning at Chengnan Middle School in Xiangqiao district in Chaozhou, Guangdong province, the familiar scent of tea drifted across the campus, soft but unmistakable.
Soft orchestral music filled Studio A of Myanmar Radio and Television in Yangon, Myanmar, as voices rose in both Chinese and Burmese verse, weaving together two literary traditions shaped by centuries of shared history.
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