Steamed buns containing about 30 percent of potato flour have become a new staple choice in more than 200 supermarkets in Beijing recently, following China's national strategy to make potato a staple food after rice, wheat and corn.
Wolfgang Kinzelbach, a German-Swiss scientist, has been visiting China since the 1970s to help with water projects. Liu Xiangrui reports.
It happened - as good ideas often do - over a round of cocktails.
Zhao Liang is the vision of a man from ancient China - in a flowing robe and waist-long hair tied up into a neat bun.
A terrified family cowering under a kitchen table depicted in black and white animation is one of the most haunting images in a new documentary on China's role in World War II, which will be broadcast next week.
As a young Chinese woman swirls on her toes to the music of Swan Lake, the scene abruptly changes to that of a battlefield on which former Soviet troops are seen helping Chinese villagers fight Japanese invaders.
In a surprise for Chinese animation, Tencent's big-screen feature is breaking records, Xu Fan reports.
When 49-year-old Victor Koo took center stage at a meeting in Beijing earlier this month, he was not wearing his usual suit and tie. Instead Koo, better known in China as Gu Yongqiang, was dressed in a casual T-shirt and jeans, and the changes are not set to stop at his wardrobe.
The Last Race, the unofficial sequel to the cinema classic, Chariots of Fire, has completed shooting and is set for worldwide release in March, according to director Stephen Shin.
The likably awkward chemistry of Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg remains intact in American Ultra, a violent action-comedy that's half Pineapple Express, half The Bourne Identity, and not as good as either.
Mochuan, a township nestled in the mountains of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, has recently been 'found' by tourists, looking to go beyond nearby Guilin. Raymond Zhou and Huo Yan pay a visit.
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