The year's top Chinese words, catchphrases and internet buzzwords were released jointly by National Language Monitor and Study Center, Commercial Press and People.cn in Beijing on Dec 20.
Intangible cultural heritages and traditional Chinese music will be the two main elements for the 2017 Happy Chinese New Year events in the countries part of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Archaeologists have discovered more than 3,500 ancient post holes on the Anning River Plain in Sichuan province.
Beijing will restore 1,500 hutong-narrow alleyways-to their traditional style over the next four years, the city management commission announced on Wednesday.
The film, based on American novelist Steve Alten's 1997 novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, is about a China-led research program that encounters unknown creatures in the Mariana Trench.
More of the world is getting into the spirit of China's biggest and best holiday.
An exhibition showcasing representative works of Chinese painting opened at the China Cultural Center in Sydney on Dec 15, which will run until Jan 18, 2017.
More than 20 human settlement sites from the pre-Qin period were discovered scattered along the Anning river valley plain for nearly 100 kilometers in Southwest China's Sichuan province.
Her slim figure is wrapped in a long leather cape dress. Her long straight hair looks particularly black under a shiny sliver headpiece, which has long pheasant feathers.
British actor Colin Firth dwells on the virtue of restraint in a wide-ranging conversation with Raymond Zhou on the art of acting.
Romeo and Juliette made its Beijing debut on Dec 9 and will end its run Sunday. The show has been seen by over 6.5 million people in 18 countries since 2001. To appreciate the great enthusiasm of Chinese fans, the major performers met with fans at the Beijing Tiaoqiao Performing Arts Center on Wednesday.
The Chinese Ministry of Culture and the Hunan Provincial Department of Culture hosted the 4th Cultural Discovery Tour for Diplomats in China from December 5 to 8.