A couple participates during a kissing contest held in celebration of Valentine's Day at the Happy Valley amusement park in Beijing February 14, 2014.
Valentine's Day has always seen a boom in Chinese people getting married, but this year the day became more special: the traditional Lantern Festival also falls on Feb 14, a rare occurrence believed to add extra blessings to the marriage.
At least nine people were killed and more than 90 injured on Thursday when a building collapsed during a wedding ceremony in east China's Zhejiang Province, local authorities said.
A red Ferrari smashed into pieces after hitting a guardrail on a highway near the Beijing Capital International Airport on Thursday morning, killing one passenger and injuring two others, according to Mirror Evening News.
A baby boy who weighed 15.7 pounds at birth lies in a hospital in Shanwei, Guangdong province, Feb 12, 2014.
As the Valentine's Day and Lantern Festival approach, which fall on the same day this year, 10 sailors of Xuelong on Tuesday released "love drift bottles" at the sea in Antarctica to express missing and blessing to their wives.
Taiwan's mainland affairs chief, Wang Yu-chi, on Wednesday paid tribute at the mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a renowned statesman who led the revolution ending imperial rule in China.
As the Valentine's Day and Chinese traditional lantern festival draw near, large quantities of fresh flowers were put into market in Yunnan.
Feb 11 is the first day of school in Shanghai in 2014. Wuning Primary School brought in a horse to greet students at the school gate, with a scroll reading, "Success immediately upon arrival," which in Chinese reads, "ma dao cheng gong" and contains the Chinese word for "horse".
The 3D painting exhibition opens to visitors for free to welcome the upcoming Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
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