The wines served to world and domestic leaders at a dinner during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Beijing last November came from a producer in Zhangjiakou.
There was a time when the only promising career path for young people in Chongli was to leave the small county in Hebei province for jobs in nearby cities like Beijing and Tianjin.
Teaching a winter training camp in China has been a routine for Oba Junji, a Japanese alpine ski coach, for the past eight years.
A little-known neighbor of Beijing is using the opportunities created by its joint bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics to kick-start its economy.
Artist Wang Xin has turned her back on traditional tools and materials such as pencils, charcoal and paintbrushes to create stunning images using an unusual medium-sand.
"Mom, it's time to have breakfast!" says Di Huimin, a 19-year-old student, as she lifts a spoonful of porridge to her bedridden mother's mouth after washing her face.
Sonam Droma quit her comfortable job in the public sector three years ago to set up an online store that sells traditional goods from the Tibet autonomous region.
Adili Maimaititure had only one purpose in mind when he first opened an online store in 2012 to sell Xinjiang nut cake, inform ally called qiegao.
The city of Turpan and nearby areas in the eastern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have become a test case in the people's war against religious fanaticism.
On Oct 13, the first cruise ship to travel from Keelung Port in Taiwan to Zhoushan docked at the mainland's newest cruise port with more than 1,200 tourists on board.
China tied the far-western region of Xinjiang closer to the rest of the country on Friday, opening a high-speed rail line between its capital, Urumqi, and Lanzhou, in neighboring Gansu, nearly 1,800 kilometers away.
When Li Xiangbo thinks back to his childhood, he remembers the winter solstice, or dongzhi, as being more important than his birthday.