On Dec 3, the French fashion house presented its 2024/25 Metiers d’art collection featuring Chanel dresses with subtle Chinese elements, such as floral and bird patterns, and lotus flowers of West Lake.
Outdoor activities are becoming an increasing staple of everyday life for many. A 2023 report from Xiaohongshu highlights hiking, camping and cycling as the top trends in outdoor pursuits.
Traditional Chinese medicine is committed to benefiting people from around the world as showcased at the 2024 World Conference on Traditional Medicine.
Tan Minglan, owner of Happiness Rice Tea Shop and a farmer from Huaxi village in Chongqing's Shizhu Tujia autonomous county, and her husband Chen Peng, apply farmyard fertilizer to herbal plants in their field.LONG TAILIANGFOR CHINA DAILY In Shizhu Tujia autonomous county under Chongqing muni...
URUMQI - The Taklimakan Desert, known as the "Sea of Death," has been completely encircled with a sand-blocking green belt stretching 3,046 km, said local authority in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. On Thursday morning, several plant species, including Populus euphratica more c...
Giant panda Mei Huan is pictured at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, Nov 21, 2024. [PhotoXinhua] The global population of giant pandas in captivity has increased to 757, a senior government official said on Tuesday, lauding Chin...
Brazil's vibrant, multicultural heritage is enriched by historical connections with China. In the early 19th century, a group of Chinese tea farmers brought tea seeds and saplings to Brazil, aiming to grow tea and introduce cultivation techniques. The planting site at the time was located within wh...
Chef Zhou Kaikai center and his colleagues prepare ingredients bought by customers and cook for them at the Runyu Food Processing Workshop in Yiwu, Zhejiang province. [Photo provided to China Daily] Some small markets in Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Shenzhen in Guangdong province and Yiwu...
A visitor looks at an exhibit in the Taosi Site Museum in Linfen in Shanxi province, Nov 12, 2024. [PhotoXinhua] As early as around 4,000 years ago, residents in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, where the Taosi culture originated, had already developed a comprehensive system to observe...
Giant pandas Bao Di and Bao Mei make their final public appearance at Pairi Daiza on Sunday, before starting a monthlong quarantine to facilitate their journey to China on Dec 10. [PhotoXinhua] Sunday was a day of mixed feelings at Pairi Daiza zoo in Brugelette, southern Belgium. While visito...
[PhotoVCG] Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences have utilized artificial intelligence to shorten the breeding cycle of grapes, increasing the breeding efficiency of a commercially important crop known for its lengthy growth process. The findings of this research were...
China's northernmost ski resort, the Arctic Ski Resort in Mohe, Heilongjiang province, welcomes its first visitors on Nov 1, 2024. [Photo by Shao TianliFor chinadaily.com.cn] More than two years after the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics concluded, the legacy of the Games lives on, providing a bo...
A view of Tsinghua University. [PhotoVCG] In recent years, China has made remarkable strides in the development of its higher education system, particularly through the initiative of building world-class universities and disciplines with Chinese characteristics, Education Minister Huai Jinp...
Over the past more than four decades China has achieved an average GDP growth rate of 8.9 percent, much higher than the global average of 3.0 percent, contributing 24.8 percent to global economic growth. In the next five to 10 years, China will promote mutually beneficial cooperation and develop...
A farmer picks tea leaves at an old tea forest area of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er, Southwest China's Yunnan province, April 19, 2023. [PhotoXinhua] Yu Xuan, a resident of Wengji village atop Jingmai Mountain in Yunnan province, was busy throughout the weeklong National Day holiday in October, ...