Most regular viewers of Chinese television are familiar with this line: "You have received a message from a national treasure, please check." This is because it is the first sentence of every episode of Every Treasure Tells a Story, a hit documentary series which introduces cultural relics of ancient China.
LANZHOU - Bound by lower education levels, traditions and household responsibilities, most women from ethnic groups in China's impoverished regions have never dared to think of ways other than farming to help their families build a better life.
Li Xiaoyun, 62, lies awake, blinking, as doctor Tian Hong finishes drilling two holes in her skull.
Aug 19 is the second Chinese Doctors' Day. Tian Hong, associate chief physician at the neurosurgery department of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, spends his morning with outpatients and his evening performing brain surgery.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the National Center for the Performing Arts will premiere its new play The Crossroad in Beijing on Oct 2.
When Yunggie Ma entered the room, she immediately made an impression on the audience. It might have been her waist-long hair or her bohemian dress.
KUALA LUMPUR - One weekend in the kitchen of her restaurant during the early hours of the morning, Karen Tee Kwee Ling is busy preparing cakes for her hordes of breakfast customers.
Zhang Lingxin, a 65-year-old retired school teacher in Shanghai, can now play two piano songs, Auld Lang Syne and Butterfly Lovers, or Liang Zhu, the Chinese version of Romeo and Juliet, after learning the piano for two years.
The Bauhaus caravan arrived at the Bund Finance Center in Shanghai on Aug 24 to mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Hochschule fur Gestaltung, the first modern design college in the world.
Not all human effort yields an immediate effect, and when it comes to environmental protection, it's clear that for any endeavor to succeed, there must be a communal will to persevere.
Protecting the Erhai Lake has become a priority for the Dali Bai autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Yunnan province since President Xi Jinping's visit there in January 2015.
Despite predictions that it would be a lackluster box-office season due to a first half slowdown, the summer has just concluded with a happy ending.
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