"Zhalong dance" is a form of dragon dance performed amid fireworks by the Miao ethnic group and listed as an intangible cultural heritage of Guizhou Province in 2006.
Lanterns are displayed to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Xiongan New Area, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 19, 2024.
Two of China's independently-developed large amphibious aircraft AG600M, codenamed Kunlong, completed their cold-weather test flights at Dongshan airport in Hailar, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
During the eight-day Spring Festival holiday, Chinese tourists took 474 million domestic trips, an increase of 34.3 percent compared to the previous year, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China on Sunday.
Aerial view of spring scenery of Daye lake bed in Huangshi, central China's Hubei Province.
C919 will perform flight demonstrations at the Singapore Airshow 2024, which lasts from Feb. 20 to Feb. 25.
The Tibetan New Year coincides with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. 10 this year. During celebrations, local Tibetan people perform this traditional dance.
A reveler participates in the Champions Parade, the happiest of all samba parades in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Feb. 17, 2024.
The Chinese swimming team composed of Pan Zhanle, Wang Haoyu, Li Bingjie, and Yu Yiting won the championship with 3 minutes 21.18 seconds in the final of the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay at the Doha 2024 World Aquatics Championships on Saturday, breaking the Asian record set by the team in the preliminaries.
Data released by China's online travel platform Qunar on Saturday revealed that during the 2024 Spring Festival holiday, Chinese tourists visited 115 countries globally, covering 1,754 cities worldwide.
Hong Kong received 1.3 million visits during the Chinese New Year holidays from Saturday to Friday (Feb. 10 to 16), with 1.14 million visits from the mainland, reaching the level in the same period in 2019.
A-Ma Temple, a world cultural heritage site and renowned landmark in south China's Macao, is filled with bustling crowds and the continuous burning of incense during the Spring Festival.
Fu Ying, founding chairperson of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, pointed out at a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference that the emphasis on freedom of navigation of civilian ships in the South China Sea seems to be more of a pretext, rather than a true concern.
The Fujian Coast Guard Bureau will carry out regular patrols in the waters between Xiamen and Kinmen, said Gan Yu, a spokesperson for the bureau on Sunday.
Chinese passenger jet C919 arrived at Changi Airport Saturday after a non-stop flight of nearly six hours to attend the Singapore Airshow 2024, according to China Eastern Airlines Singapore Branch.
The first C919 will join four other homegrown aircrafts manufactured by Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC) to attend the Singapore Airshow that runs through February 20 until February 25, marking their first appearance overseas.
China witnessed some 2.31 billion passenger trips during Feb. 10 to 17 -- this year's Spring Festival holiday.
China's 14th National Winter Games kicked off on Saturday, marking the largest national event in China after the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Various celebrations have been held across China to embrace the Spring Festival. Feb. 17 marks the last day of the Spring Festival holiday.
China's first homegrown large passenger plane C919 arrived at Singapore at 1:49 a.m. on Saturday (local time), preparing to participate in the 2024 Singapore Airshow from February 20 to 25, according to China Eastern Airlines.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the 60th Munich Security Conference and visit Spain and France, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday at a news conference.
The Year of the Dragon brings enthusiasm and vibrancy. Red lanterns, auspicious red envelopes and couplets, exquisite paper-cut window decorations, and delicate dim sum—elements of the dragon, or Chinese loong, can be seen everywhere in daily life. What does the loong mean to the Chinese people? As we navigate through the historical traces, we seek to uncover its spiritual nature.
As the world celebrates the coming of the Year of the Dragon, global experts send their greetings. Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, expects the Chinese economy to prosper in the years to come by opening markets, maintaining regional stability, and deepening cooperation.
Spring is the season of rebirth and renewal. Wu Rina, an Ewenki ethnic musician and professor at the School of Music of Minzu University of China, and Mark Levine, an American professor and country musician at the same university, jointly performed the song "Spring is coming," which was composed by the late Mongolian singer Buren Bayaer.
As the world celebrates the coming of the Year of the Dragon, global experts send their greetings.“China has made the right kinds of investments for the real economy to prosper,” said David Blair, vice president and senior economist at the Center for China and Globalization, in an interview with China News Network. He expects the Chinese economy to grow further over the next decade.
Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum and his Rwandan coach Gervais Hakizimana were killed in a car crash along with his coach at around 11 p.m. Sunday local time in Kenya, according to the Associated Press.
Claude Smadja, Former Managing Director of the World Economic Forum, noted during an exclusive interview with China News Network that China has achieved tremendous progress in many areas including artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and electric cars.
huà lóng diǎn jīng means to bring the painted dragon, or Loong, to life by putting in the pupils of its eyes.
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