China's vehicle parallel import business dragged down prices and maintained luxury car sales volume, while the high-end market has cooled over the past several years.
New energy vehicles are increasingly taking center stage in the automotive world, with several major automakers announcing their electric car strategies at the ongoing Paris auto show.
Czech automaker Skoda Auto is starting an SUV offensive, with its seven-seat Kodiaq as the spearhead, to boost sales in China and other major markets.
General Motors Co generates $1 billion in pretax profit a month. Yet the stock market seems unimpressed, assigning the company a market value of just $50 billion.
Peng Shiping looks attentively as her 28-year-old daughter Peng Lin is embroidering a fish on silk.
In 2006, Shu brocade weaving techniques were included on the list of China's Intangible Cultural Heritage by the State Council. In the Chengdu Shu Brocade and Embroidery Museum, visitors can see brocade featuring the giant panda, flowers and birds, famous works of calligraphy and paintings, as well as China's folk customs.
First-time visitors to museums in Sichuan province are stunned with a myriad of unusual exhibits.
Sichuan is a land of creative thought, which is why the world's best-known science fiction magazine is based there, said Han Song, a famous science fiction writer.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently announced that China's giant panda has been downgraded from "endangered" to "vulnerable" on the global list of species at risk of extinction. It said that evidence from national surveys indicates the previous population decline has been reversed. The State Forestry Administration said in an official statement: "It is too early to say the giant panda is no longer endangered."
A 3-D computer-animated action comedy martial arts film, directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni, and produced by DreamWorks Animation in 2016. The Panda Village in the film is set on picturesque Qingcheng Mountain in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
Viewers of the movie Kung Fu Panda 3, released in China and the United States in January, were interested in the fictional Panda Village to which the hero Po returns with his long-lost father.
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