As the weeklong Chinese New Year holiday comes to an end, a halt of ferry services across the Qiongzhou Strait due to heavy fog created lengthy traffic jams, obstructing more than 10,000 cars that were leaving the southern China region.
Looking ahead to Spring Festival, Yu Bingjian and his family returned to their rural hometown in Fuyang, Anhui province, on Feb 7.
In 2017 I spent more than a month in Guhe, a poverty-stricken village in Fuyang's Linquan county, to see how officials and villagers had been doing on poverty relief.
Lunar New Year celebrations, exported around the world by Chinese miners, sailors and workers in the 19th century, expanded during the 20th century as Chinese communities developed vibrant Chinatowns in major cities. Now, as millions of Chinese and non-Chinese alike celebrated the Year of the Dog over the weekend, Chinese New Year has moved from Chinatown to Downtown.
The popular documentary A Bite of China, which explores the relationship between Chinese people and food, returned for its third season on Monday during the Spring Festival holiday.
The cultural relics authority of Northwest China's Shaanxi province will send conservationists to repair a Terracotta Warrior that had its thumb stolen by a member of the public while on display at a Philadelphia museum.
Technology has been shaping modern life at an unpredictable speed, and many things can be done by a simple click on a mobile phone. But that has not deterred some young Chinese people from immersing themselves in nostalgia and bringing new life to items from the past.
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - Beijing's eight-minute show at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics will convey warm greetings to the world from the host of the 2022 Winter Games in a high-tech way, producer Sha Xiaolan said on Tuesday.
China has been the world leader in patent applications on inventions for seven consecutive years, said Wan Gang, president of the China Association for Science and Technology.
It's fair to say that many Chinese have become heavily reliant on their smartphones - or, to be more exact, the wealth of apps they use daily to shop, travel and chat with friends.
Despite its gold medal drought halfway through the 2018 Winter Olympics, the Chinese delegation still has plenty to cheer about, including its broader participation in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea.
Tang Jing sells yellow "roses", wrapping them in bunches in green paper and colorful ribbons. If you don't look closely, you may not notice that they are actually cabbages.
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