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Seven Chinese nurses were honored with the 50th Florence Nightingale Award, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Monday.
With over 300 years of history, bajiquan, or Eight Extremes Fist, is known for its explosive power and close-range combat techniques. It has thrived in Cangzhou, hailed as China's "Hometown of Wushu". Wushu is the Chinese term for martial arts.
The 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves, initiated by UNESCO, will convene this September in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province. The event will discuss the global strategy and action plan for the next decade under the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, and release a global declaration named after the host city.
Chinese-Russian film "Red Silk" is set for release in Chinese cinemas this September, according to the Russian Gazette on Wednesday.
Online box office platforms indicate that Chinese fantasy animation Ne Zha 2 has grossed over 15.8 billion yuan (approximately $2.19 billion) worldwide as of Monday. The animated epic now ranks as the fifth highest-grossing film ever and is on track to surpass James Cameron's Titanic.
Every April, the peony gardens of Luoyang in Henan province come alive as over 1,000 varieties burst into bloom, drawing visitors from home and abroad.
The 15th Beijing International Film Festival concluded on Saturday with a star-studded closing ceremony that unveiled the winners of the Tiantan Award, the festival's top honor.
The 15th Beijing International Film Festival concluded on Saturday night with the Tiantan Award, its top honor, presented during a star-studded ceremony.
Into the Depths, the first 4D popular science film presented by the National History Museum of China, premiered in Beijing earlier this week.
Archaeological breakthroughs continue to deepen people's understanding of Chinese civilization and how China became a united country with ethnic diversity, as shown by the list of China's top 10 archaeological discoveries for 2024.
As the 30th World Book Day approached, Elhomosany Hesham Ramzy, a 29-year-old Egyptian student at Shanxi University, found himself wandering through the aisles of Xinhua Nangong Bookstore in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.
In the reception hall at the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco, 16-year-old Eshaan Nair, in his white kung fu costume with dragon embroidery, demonstrated martial arts techniques honed over seven years of dedicated practice.
A shared belief in Mazu, the revered goddess of the sea, drew thousands of people, including many from Taiwan, on Sunday to celebrate her birth in Fujian province, despite heightened cross-Strait tensions.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced the inscription of 74 new documentary heritage items in its Memory of the World Register, including three submissions from China: the Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, the Steles of Shaolin Temple (566-1990), and Trilingual Inscription.
The United Nations this week launched its 16th Chinese Language Day series — "Poetic China: Rhymes and Romance" — at UN headquarters, offering an immersive cultural experience that blends Chinese tea culture, calligraphy and poetry.
Cultural policymakers and experts from China and Malaysia are now crafting an action plan for protecting and promoting the lion dance, a tradition that has leaped across borders and generations.
China is my second home, one that bears my dreams and heartfelt memories, Vietnamese student Liu Shixuan (Chinese pinyin) told China News Network.
The inaugural Beijing Culture Forum Salon kicked off at the Divine Music Administration of the Temple of Heaven on Thursday, with the theme of Dialogue: Protection and Inheritance of Cultural Heritage.
At the People's Hospital in the border county of Hekou, southwest China's Yunnan Province, a bilingual doctor switches fluently between Chinese and Vietnamese, occasionally soothing patients with phrases in the local Yunnan dialect. Known by her Chinese name Chen Shiying, she has become a renowned neurologist on the China-Vietnam border.
The China Pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan, opened on Sunday as the expo began welcoming visitors for its monthslong run, striking notes that well echo the message delivered a day earlier by Japanese Emperor Naruhito: a sustainable future for mankind.
With its geographical closeness to China and centuries of cultural exchange, Vietnam has become one of the largest Asian markets for Chinese dramas, or C-dramas.
The mysteries of Hongshan culture have laid dormant for more than 5,000 years at the Niuheliang archaeological site in Chaoyang, Northeast China's Liaoning province.
As Kenya makes efforts toward advancing modernization, the government looks forward to learning from China's best practices, says a senior Kenyan government official.
More than just an ingredient, milk weaves through cultures and traditions, linking the Maasai warriors of Africa, the wedding rituals of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region's Tajik residents, and the generations of people who have perfected the art of making dairy delicacies.
The Beijing Library was selected for Time magazine's The World's 100 Greatest Places of 2025, which marks the first time a cultural landmark in Beijing has received this prestigious honor.
Zhang's journey with Peking Opera began in high school when he developed an interest in gufeng music, a genre that blends traditional Chinese elements with pop music.
This year's program will focus on commemorating the 120th anniversary of Chinese cinema through the launch of the "120 Years Applause: Chinese Film Special Screening".
Experiencing tea picking and processing in east China's Zhejiang Province on Sunday, a tourist from the UK said Britons generally prefer drinking black tea with milk and sugar. Yet, at home, he enjoys drinking Chinese green tea.
Showcasing more than 200 artifacts, including stone tools, fossils and reconstructed site models, alongside multimedia presentations, the curators try to present the scientific knowledge of Nihewan's archaeology and paleontology.
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