When Kostiantyn Cherniak recently visited the business registration service center in Beijing's Xicheng district to update his company's registration, he had already watched a series of short English-language videos explaining the relevant procedures and policies.
Standing before a display case at the Liaoning Provincial Museum in Shenyang, Liaoning province, Sarah Jane Rutter studied a jade pig-dragon from Hongshan culture, created more than 5,000 years ago.
The market on Baita West Road draws the largest crowds.
Throughout the history of the world, buildings have reflected the beliefs, ambitions and challenges of the societies that created them. Religion, government, geography, climate, technological development and social traditions have all shaped the way nations approach architecture, leaving behind a physical record of their history.
A seven-day program exploring Shanxi province's ancient architecture, organized by Shanxi Daily and China Daily, concluded on July 20 after bringing together more than 10 visual artists and bloggers from nine countries, along with journalists and communication scholars.
In a conference room in Dunhuang, a lecture explored China's various earthen heritage sites and the scientific study of traditional craftsmanship.
For a few days in mid-July, the high-speed train from Beijing to Chongli in Hebei province sells out within hours.
In ports as far as in Egypt and Kenya, discoveries of bluish-white Chinese porcelain shards from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) may prompt people today to imagine an epic of craftsmanship and a grand picture of the Maritime Silk Road overcoming waves and time.
Want to stand where Beijing's ancient past converges with the present in one breathtaking panorama? Zhengyangmen Gate is the perfect option.
The Song Mausoleums are hailed as an open-air museum of Chinese stone carving art, preserving a total of 1,027 stone statues in Gongyi, Henan province.
From July 21 to 22, a series of cultural and tourism exchange activities were held in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia.