HANGZHOU - Sipping tea on a rooftop terrace while overlooking the forested mountains directly below and just beyond, office worker Gao Lili, 29, spent her first day of the weeklong National Day holiday relaxing in the plush "O2 lounge", about 400 kilometers away from the city of Hangzhou.
Having to spend days on train journeys between Beijing and Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region during his childhood, Wang Shu used the time observing and drawing.
With its quiet, tree-lined streets and courtyard houses, an old neighborhood in the southwest of the capital is home to the Peking Opera Theater Company of Beijing, which was founded in 1979.
Ballet dancer Wu Husheng, who is used to playing princes, emperors and dukes, will take the role of a young revolutionary in Bright Red Star. This original production of the Shanghai Ballet will premiere at the Shanghai International Dance Center on Oct 24.
As the purchasing power of the tech-savvy younger generation grows, a whole new business has emerged surrounding intellectual property rights related to online literature, TV dramas, films, digital games and comics. And that business is gaining momentum all across China.
Emojis, the latest form of intellectual property in China, are turning out to be a money-spinner and also an IP worth further protection in China.
Some believe it is chocolate, others say oysters, but Spanish paella is arguably the true food of love. After all, the clue is in the name. Paella is an abbreviation of "for her" in Spanish, according to a senior official from the tourism office of Valencia, Spain's third largest city - and the birthplace of paella.
Is your image of Chinese food limited to thoughts of sweet and sour pork, squirrel fish, Kung Pao chicken and wanton or dumplings? Think again. China is home to 56 ethnic groups, and every one of them has a distinctive cuisine.
Heytea, China's fast-growing tea chain, is looking to challenge its much-bigger global rival Starbucks, both at home and abroad.
China's tea drinking market is estimated to be around 40 to 50 billion yuan ($5.81 to 7.27 billion), according to CITIC Securities. According to China Tea Marketing Association, more than 500 million consumers consumed 1.9 million tons of tea leaves in 2017. As the world's largest producer and consumer of tea, China is seeing a new trend of tea, brewed by both local and international players, looking to steal young people from the beverage's long-standing enemy - coffee.
Though binge eating is synonymous with the National Day holidays, the growing consumer preference for novelties has prompted a debate on whether China is seeing a consumption upgrade or downgrade.
Cross-border e-commerce between China and ASEAN economies is surging, as more Chinese consumers are developing a taste for exotic food that are less commonly seen on tables and an ongoing need for online shopping.
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