It's showtime at Changyu Moser XV, the Ningxia chateau operated by China's biggest wine producer. Production at corporate giant Changyu's other facilities across China is vast. Here, the scale is smaller, in a quest to make several wines of serious export quality.
"I've already got an ID card from my second home, because I can eat spicy food and use chopsticks just like you," says Sitlivy Dmitry, a Russian engineer who has been associated with China's chemical industry for more than two decades and has long held a Chinese "green card".
Pop superstar Beyonce helped celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Country Music Awards with a secret and boisterous performance of her song Daddy Lessons with the Dixie Chicks.
When Italian conductor Rico Saccani was appointed the music director of Guiyang Symphony Orchestra in September, he felt like he was home.
For Chinese wildlife photographer Xi Zhinong, seeing The Blue Planet, a documentary series created and premiered by the BBC, was a turning point. Xi first saw the film in 2002, when he became the first Chinese to win the TVE award at the prestigious Wildscreen Festival - an event started in 1982 and hailed as the "Green Oscars" - in Bristol, England.
Hot on the heels of A Simple Life (2012) and Happiness (2016), another art-house film is portraying the aging population struggling with sickness and loneliness.
Gu Jieting started taking piano lessons at a very early age and was enrolled in the primary school and middle school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
In the 15 years since The Strokes became a breakout global sensation, guitarist Nick Valensi has found comfort in the shadows, taking the limelight only when he wants.
Ku Pao-ming recalls how his family celebrated Spring Festival when he was a child.
Ode to Joy, a poem written in 1785 by German poet Friedrich Schiller and best known for its use in the final movement of Symphony No 9 by Beethoven in 1824, celebrates the changing of anguish into joy and conflict into harmony.
The Porcelain Pagoda in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, was first known to the Western world for its gorgeous colorful glaze in the 19th century. Then, every night, 140 lamps were lit for illumination.
In front of the Sakyamuni Wooden Pagoda, the fragrance of incense wafts gently through the air, while Chinese pilgrims prostrate themselves by lying face-down on the ground, showing the full extent of their dedication.
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