China's largest single tour group to Europe - 6,400 people - arrived in Nice, France, on Saturday at the start of a four-day break.
China has evacuated 470 climbers stranded in the Tibet autonomous region by the magnitude-7.9 earthquake in Nepal, authorities said on Saturday.
President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday cemented the partnership of the two powers, boosting political and economic ties with the signing of more than 30 documents.
For the Chinese audience, two highlights of the Victory Day parade on Red Square on Saturday will be the appearance of President Xi Jinping at the reviewing stand and the PLA honor guard marching on the cobblestones of history outside the Kremlin.
China's foreign trade with the United States rose 2.3 percent and with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by 1.5 percent in the first four months of this year, thanks to the growing market demand in the world's largest economy and diversified trading methods offered by the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
Britain's Conservatives surprised many by winning a majority government in Thursday's election - and in the process created history by sending the first ethnic Chinese MP to Parliament.
Just when Nepal's climbing industry was recovering from last year's deadly avalanche on Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest in the West, another avalanche triggered by last month's earthquake killed 19 people and ended another climbing season.
Chinese sports hobbies have changed over time. In the 1980s, traditional exercises were popular among all age groups, especially the elderly. In the photo above, taken in 1989, elderly people practice Shaolin Arhat boxing in a park in downtown Beijing. Today, people are also attracted by more modern exercises, such as dancing and yoga. In some parks, mature women, known as dama, dance to music in public squares, as in the photo at right, taken last year. Chinese square-dancing is also known to foreigners, because some Chinese dama even dance when they travel to other countries.
Digital books get a lot of press these days, but many Chinese still love traditional texts printed on paper. The demand is high enough that some bookstores provide service 24 hours a day in cities such as Beijing and Chengdu. Here are the top 24-hour bookstores in the country.
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President Xi Jinping first proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt initiative 20 months ago in Kazakhstan, and on Thursday he and his counterpart in the Central Asian country agreed to step up cooperation over the trans-Eurasianmega project.
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