When most youngsters his age are striving to gain university entrance, 19-year-old Wang Junkai has already stunned the show business industry by demonstrating the influential power that a super idol can hold.
Nine Percent, the nine-member boy band that came into being through the Chinese reality show Idol Producer broadcast by online streaming service iQiyi this April, released their debut album To the Nines on Nov 12.
After a five-hour bus journey and a four-hour flight, four young men made their first trip to Beijing from their hometown, Lianping county, Guangdong province. Instead of visiting tourist attractions, like the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, they walked into a live house venue located in downtown Beijing, where they were going to perform the next evening.
"Since following the matches between the winning Google AI program, AlphaGo, and the world's top human Go player Ke Jie in 2017, I see artificial intelligence as becoming popular," says Yuan Jiaqi, 24, a postgraduate student of computer studies at East China's Zhejiang University.
After two months at McGill University in Canada, Liu Weiyi, a freshman there, found himself adapting well to his pharmacology major.
After flying across the planet to Argentina twice and visiting Suzhou in East China many times, photographer Zhao Hui has recently completed his project on creating a "dialogue" between China's age-old opera art Kunqu, which originated in Suzhou, and Argentina's popular dance form tango, using images.
"When I was 17, I left my hometown of Shenyang, because I felt my dream was not to be found there," sang Ai Jing in her song My 1997, a popular album that propelled her to fame when she was 24. However, the singer-turned-artist has found herself back in her hometown after living in different cities around the world.
The China International Travel Mart 2018 kicked off in Shanghai on Friday, with such exhibitors as tourism bureaus, scenic areas and travel agencies from 107 countries and regions.
Seals dance Gangnam style, balance balls atop of sticks clenched in their maws and perform acrobatics at Qingdao's Haichang Polar Ocean Park.
Southwestern China's Tibet autonomous region has launched a series of favorable tourism policies to draw travelers to enjoy its winter charms from Nov 1 to March 15.
The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, is a much-visited and much-photographed landmark. This 598-year-old former Chinese imperial palace complex, received almost 16.7 million visits in 2017. Numerous TV programs - documentaries and dramas - have showcased the place in recent years.
Good news for museum fans in Beijing: An annual pass of museum tickets was released last week by the Beijing Museums Association, which will enable visitors to enter 115 institutions in the capital city to either for free or for discounted rates, in 2019.
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