Chinese architect Liang Sicheng, a pioneer of heritage preservation, says: "The unique beauty of Beijing's design is due to its zhongzhouxian."
Yan Wei, a 30-year-old blind man from Gaomi, Shandong province, is thrilled. He has just covered the 42.2-kilometer distance in a marathon in Longkou, a coastal city in Shandong province, on Sunday, beating his personal record, with a new time of 3 hours, 15 minutes and 58 seconds.
Holly Snape saw less of two things while growing up in Yorkshire in the 1980s - ginger and diversity.
The onset of colder weather in late October usually marks the start of low season for tourism in the Shanxi heritage city of Pingyao, but a new film festival opening there has just changed all that.
Perhaps, like American TV audiences over the past decades, Chinese netizens will be laughing aloud on Saturday nights.
Around six decades after the birth of Justice League, one of the most famous metahuman alliances in American comics history, an upcoming movie named after the fictional team will bring them to life.
At a workshop in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, Polina Tsoncheva is carefully pinching clay on a spinning potter's wheel, molding it into a plate.
The 2017 China Education Expo, which toured Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou and Shanghai from Oct 21 to 29, attracted over 50,000 visitors, with the expo at the China National Convention Center in Beijing hosting the most, around 27,000 visitors.
Miss Julie, one of Swedish playwright August Strindberg's most representative works written in 1888 and noted for its naturalistic style, has been adapted for the stage as a traditional Chinese opera.
Six university students from around China had the chance to apply their creativity by turning knockoff goods into other types of useful products at a competition held at the East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, as part of a novel program on how to dispose of seized fake products.
Cartoons have been an indispensable part of Ao Yo-siang's childhood since he can remember. In primary school, Ao created fictional storylines to sketch four-panel comics on workbooks entertaining classmates. Teachers often assigned him to draw blackboard posters.
In October, the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine went to three American academics, Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young, for their work on circadian clocks. They've established that plants, animals and humans naturally adapt their biological rhythm - the cycle of rest and activity - so that it's synchronized with the Earth's revolutions, with the cycles of light and darkness.
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