• Black Clouds Suppressing the City: A Documentary of the "July 5th Incident" in Urumqi
    2024-10-28

    In 2009, a serious terrorist attack occurred in Xinjiang.In October 2024,China Global Television Network produced and released a video titled "DARKNESS OVER URUMQI.THE JULY 5 RIOTS". The following are some wonderful comments: 1、I witnessed what happened that day. Watching the document, my tears pou...

  • A Memoir of the Grand Canal: Shandong
    2024-07-03

    The magnificent river carries the water, and the cultural lineage is passed down through the ages. As 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of China's successful bid to inscribe China's Grand Canal as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and to implement China's emphasis on the protection of cultural heritage o...

  • Potters from across world drawn to China's 'porcelain capital'
    2024-07-03

    NANCHANG — Graduating from Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in 2008 and gaining work experience elsewhere, Hao Xiwen has never lost his passion for ceramics. Upon returning to Jingdezhen, known as China's "porcelain capital", in Jiangxi province, he has wholeheartedly immersed himself in the ceramics s...

  • Chinese acrobat wows audience at NBA halftime show
    2024-07-02

    TAIYUAN — A video of acrobat Niu Rong's performance at an NBA game has gone viral online recently, garnering widespread attention on major video platforms. In the video, Niu, dressed in a bright outfit and high heels, performed to the traditional Chinese song Bridal Sedan Chair. She rides a unicy...

  • Exhibition highlights new generation of artists
    2024-07-02

    She Luyun's installation artwork Feeder.CHINA DAILY By getting answers, some surprising, to 90 questions, curator displays multifaceted perspectives in new project, Li Yingxue reports. A mannequin head, feather duster, straw hat, toy goldfish, pigeon sculpture, coin and a motorcycle license pla...

  • Villagers volunteer as 'riverkeepers'
    2024-07-01

    Volunteers collect trash at the Hanjiang River Water Source National Wetland Park in Ningqiang county, Shaanxi province, on June 23, 2024.[Photo provided to China Daily] Residents and other volunteers in a village nestled in the mountains of Shaanxi province are leading the charge in protect...

  • New museum dedicated to art education history to be unveiled
    2024-07-01

    A new museum under construction at the Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, will review the basic art education at school over the past 120 years.[Photo provided to China Daily] A museum to give a review of the art education in the country is due to be constructed at the end o...

  • Something in the air as festival attracts global talent
    2024-06-28

    Jaap van Zweden will conduct the New York Philharmonic in two concerts at the MISA festival. CHINA DAILY Shanghai will host some big-name artists from all over the world at an upcoming music festival, with the premiere of new compositions and arrangements. Music in the Summer Air, or MISA, is a ...

  • The wisdom of Confucius still has me transfixed
    2024-06-28

    It is a memory that will forever be etched in my mind. To the accompaniment of pulsating music amid a sea of color and movement, the global audience looked on in awe as China greeted the world at the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing with the welcoming and touching Confucian proverb, "Frie...

  • Breaking 'barrels' and glass ceilings
    2024-06-27

    Shi Feng inspects the consistency of the fermented sorghum mash at a workshop of the Yellow Crane Tower Distillery in Wuhan, Hubei, on May 16.[Photo by Gao PengboFor China Daily] Shi Feng, a determined female distiller, challenges gender norms by mastering the craft of distillation and pro...

  • Youth camp explores Flying Tigers' history
    2024-06-27

    Students and teachers from the US explore Beijing on Wednesday during the two-week Chinese Bridge Flying Tigers Summer Camp. [Photo provided to China Daily] A unique summer camp program launched in Beijing this week aims to foster cultural exchange and historical understanding between youth fr...

  • Inbound tourism drive sparks optimistic outlook
    2024-06-26

    Tourists from the Mein Schiff 5 cruise ship enjoy their visit to Shanghai on April 6. Visitors from European countries including Germany, Austria and Switzerland, are allowed visa-free entry.CHEN AIPINGXINHUA Last month, senior tour operator Iain Bell traveled from the United Kingdom to China ...

  • Severe drought, heat wave grip agricultural heartland
    2024-06-26

    Guo Qinliang, a farmer in Linquan county, Anhui province, irrigates his newly planted corn on Friday.ZHU LIXINCHINA DAILY As the temperature gauge hit 38 C in Linquan county, Anhui province, on Friday afternoon, farmer Guo Qinliang was more worried about his crops than the scorching heat. "I ...

  • Beijing's X Museum takes visitors on a roller coaster ride
    2024-06-26

    An untitled painting by artist Alexander Basil [Photo courtesy of the artist and X Museum] A recent trip to the X Museum in Beijing, where two solos of Chinese artist Xing Wanli and German artist Alexander Basil are underway, provides visitors an experience seesawing between disarray and o...

  • Instrument steeped in history stirs modern audiences
    2024-06-26

    A morin khuur created by Ulji features traditional patterns.[Photo by Ding GenhouFor China Daily] Nestled in the southwestern expanse of Ordos city in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region lies the Uxin Banner — a vast territory spanning approximately 11,600 square kilometers with a m...