'Slumdog Millionaire' hits Chinese screens

"Zheng He's voyages to the west Seas" hits screen

The TV series “Zheng He's voyages to the west Seas” will be shown on CCTV-8 on March 25. The ceremony for the series release was held on Tuesday.

China starts building US 'Flying Tigers' park

Construction of a park began Sunday in Lingui county in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to commemorate the US "Flying Tigers" air squadron who helped the Chinese fight the Japanese in the World War II.

Hanzhong offers new routes and attractions for visitors

Officials from the Hanzhong municipal government recently announced a new scheme for tourists at a news conference held on Wednesday in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi. The new preferential policies have been eastablished in order to promote Hanzhong tourism.

Tallest Ferris wheel planned in Guangzhou

The world's highest Ferris wheel project is expected to come up in Guangzhou, Guangdong's provincial capital, later this year. The idea is to give the city's tourism business a lift.

2009 World Stamp Exhibition and Peony Exhibition to open in Luoyang

The 2009 World Stamp Exhibition and the 27th Peony Exhibition will kick off in Luoyang, central China’s Henan province, on April 10, according to Luoyang’s vice mayor Wang Lilin, who made the announcement at a news conference yesterday.

China's Gobi desert source of rare dinosaur find

Left on their own by adults, the young dinosaurs sank into the mud beside a lake and died 90 million years ago in what would become the Gobi Desert.

Folk troupe of farmers in NE China

Folk artists perform at a temple fair in Halagui Village of Chaoyang, northeast China's Liaoning province, Sunday March 15, 2009.

Daming Palace tree-planting begins

Some 1,000 residents in the capital of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province planted more than 400 trees at the Daming Palace National Heritage Site Park last Thursday.

Masked dance climaxes Buddhist ritual

The annual eight-day Dayuan Buddhist Ritual of the Yonghe Temple in Beijing came to its climax yesterday afternoon when the buzha dance was performed by the temple's lamas.

Tibet exhibition opens in Beijing

Another exhibition showing the changes that have taken place in Tibet over the past 50 years has opened in Beijing.

Shaolin Temple in HK 'will boost tourism'

If the planned expansion of the Shaolin Temple here works well, it may open doors for more branches worldwide, said a top temple official on Monday.