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National day sails overseas

[2015-10-14 07:40]

This year's weeklong National Day holiday became international vacation time for a record number of Chinese mainlanders.

Holiday traffic renews calls for paid leave

[2015-10-14 07:40]

After a pleasant trip to a nature reserve in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Meng Xuejing started driving back to Beijing on Monday morning, thinking about her supper at home.

Trees, fresh air lure travelers to forest parks

[2015-10-14 07:40]

China's forestry tourism is seeing rapid growth and there is huge potential in the future, a senior forestry official said on Saturday. The value of such tourism was 650 billion yuan ($103 billion) in 2014, accounting for one-fifth of the country's tourism revenue, says Zhang Yongli, deputy head of the State Forestry Administration.

Road to recall

[2015-10-14 07:40]

Peter Frankopan believes we have all been looking at history in the wrong way.

English book on Sino-US relations captures insights

[2015-10-14 07:40]

When President Xi Jinping was on his first state visit to the United States, in late September, a new book on China's relations with that country, intended to give English-speaking readers Chinese perspectives on the subject, was released in Beijing.

The commoner people get their voice in print

[2015-10-14 07:40]

Much material is available on the horrors the common people of Shanghai faced since the Japanese military occupied the entire city on Dec 8, 1941, following the outbreak of the Pacific War. Many Chinese have learned of the pain the occupation inflected on their previous generations through literature, movies, TV series, memoirs and textbooks.

Royal treat

[2015-10-13 08:44]

From the luxurious bedrooms of the mothers of kings to personal worship areas filled with Buddha statures, the Palace Museum is showing us a different side of imperial China. Deng Zhangyu reports.

Traditional art form gets new lease of life

[2015-10-13 08:44]

It's around 8 pm. The streets are quiet. For most of Heze, a city in East China's Shandong province, which has a population of around 8 million and is known as the main center for the cultivation of the national flower peony, it is the end of another day.

Pigs of paradise

[2015-10-13 08:44]

Famed 'fragrant' pork, a Tibetan-style delicacy, delivers an authentic taste of Shangri-La, Xu Junqian discovers at a high-altitude tasting.

More Chinese saying 'cheese' for cool-weather fondue

[2015-10-13 08:44]

As autumn temperatures drop, the Chinese like to pamper themselves with hotpot to escape the chill.

The art of celebrity

[2015-10-13 08:44]

Famous folks like Jack Ma attract a lot of cash when their paintings are sold at charity auctions. 'Real' painters sometimes are less than thrilled, Deng Zhangyu reports.

Porcelain works glow in Nanchang museum

[2015-10-13 08:44]

While the exhibits at Nanchang Porcelain Painting Museum in suburban Nanchang in East China's Jiangxi province may impress each visitor with their elegance, they are also likely to evoke childhood memories among many visitors, especially the elderly.

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