The Taste Hunan · 2026 Hunan Cuisine Internationalization Promotion Conference was held in Changsha from Saturday to Sunday, bringing together nearly 1,000 guests to discuss industry cooperation and strategies for expanding the cuisine’s global reach.
A copper cloisonné work inspired by China’s famed Four Ram Square Zun has been certified as the world’s largest cloisonné square zun at Hebei Jinxi Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. in Qianxi County, Hebei Province.
A Longjing tea tasting event opened by West Lake in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on Thursday, bringing together 10 tea villages from the core production area.
Liling porcelain from central China’s Hunan Province, known for its distinctive underglaze polychrome technique, is now exported to more than 150 countries and regions and has been presented as a diplomatic gift on multiple occasions.
As the Mid-Autumn Festival draws near, mooncake production and sales are in full swing in Wenzhou and Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, where local manufacturers are boosting domestic supply while expanding into overseas markets.
The 15th Shanghai World Chinese Dragon Boat Invitational was held from Sept. 10 to 14 in Qingpu District, Shanghai, drawing 20 teams and more than 400 athletes from 14 countries and regions.
A re-survey of the Helan Mountains rock art site in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has uncovered more than 500 previously unrecorded petroglyphs, including a rare four-horse chariot carving never before seen in the area.
A decade after President Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi toured Luxor, a city widely known as one of the world's largest open-air museums, the two leaders again stepped into the world of ancient Egypt — this time at the Grand Egyptian Museum on the Giza Plateau.
Guizhou “village T”, a fashion showcase rooted in the ethnic cultures of southwest China’s Guizhou Province, made its debut at New Zealand Fashion Week (NZFW) in Auckland on Thursday.
With more than five months to go before the Year-of-the-Goat Spring Festival, production and sales of festive goods at Yiwu International Trade City are already in full swing.
Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, speaking in Chinese, underscored the importance of bilingual education and urged families to create environments where children can enjoy the language.
German contestant Levi Benjamin Petersen won the championship Sunday at the global finals of the 25th “Chinese Bridge” Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students in Xiamen, Fujian Province.
Chinese and Kyrgyz archaeologists have completed their first joint field season at the Shurabashat Ancient City Ruins in southern Kyrgyzstan, mapping a walled settlement complex that may date back more than 2,000 years.
Twenty-seven participants from eight countries have completed a 14-day training program on medicinal resources and traditional medicine in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants said Monday.
More than 200,000 visitors attended the opening of the 2026 Hinggan League Naadam festival on Saturday on the Wulanmaodu pasture in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Award-winning works from the "Suzhou Intangible Heritage AI Creation Campaign" were showcased at the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Product Application Expo in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, on Saturday, with prizes officially announced.
Researchers have identified traces of a cereal-based alcoholic beverage dating back approximately 2,300 years in a sealed bronze vessel unearthed in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
An exhibition opened on Wednesday at South China's Fujian Museum, featuring the original bronze-horse head statue from the Old Summer Palace and a large-scale immersive VR experience to revitalize cultural heritage.
A temporary post office opened on Monday at the Tai'anli Museum on Beijing's Central Axis, marking the second anniversary of the site's UNESCO World Heritage inscription with a commemorative stamp and cover release ceremony.
The Tahir Solo Museum in Surakarta, Indonesia, opened on Friday, with a special exhibition featuring dinosaur fossils from China as one of its inaugural displays.
Today, naan, a traditional baked flatbread and staple food in the region, is inspiring a growing range of cultural and creative products that are proving popular with both Chinese and international tourists.
The 2026 Digital Heritage Global Innovator Contest concluded on Wednesday evening at the Grand Bao’en Temple Ruins Museum in Nanjing.
Members of the Jing, China's only maritime ethnic group, celebrated their traditional Ha Festival in Dongxing City, Fangchenggang, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Wednesday.
An original modern Yueju Opera production titled Nüban (The Women’s Troupe) premiered in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on Tuesday evening.
Jointly organized by the Chongqing Natural History Museum and the Inner Mongolia Museum of Natural History, the exhibition will run for nearly three months. It is divided into three sections exploring the ecology of the African savanna and the ways local communities have coexisted with nature.
An exhibition featuring Russian imperial treasures from the Moscow Kremlin Museums has opened at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, marking the first time the collection has been displayed in Hubei Province.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the Tibetan language and culture, moving them from digital preservation toward a deeper, AI-driven transformation, according to Nyima Tashi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at Tibet University.
The 9th "Medicine, Humanity and Media" International Health Communication Conference and Doctoral Forum was held at Peking University on Saturday and Sunday.
The "Mountain and Sea Craftsmanship - Intangible Heritage Co-Creation Exhibition" opened at the Ningxia Art Museum in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on Thursday.
A symposium marking the 10th anniversary of the Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape's UNESCO World Heritage inscription was held in Chongzuo, south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Wednesday.
Archaeologists have uncovered 10 well-preserved tombs dating to the Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) in Chang'an District, Xi'an, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology announced Wednesday.
The 2026 Silk Road Fashion Week opened Saturday in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, featuring runway shows, exhibitions of intangible cultural heritage and cultural experiences that blend Silk Road traditions with contemporary design.
For the first time, a Chinese intangible cultural heritage craft has entered FIFA's official World Cup licensed product system.
The Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute announced its latest research findings on Friday, revealing that Sanxingdui's iconic bronze figure, kneeling with a zun vessel on its head, is a vivid re-creation of an actual sacrificial ceremony, reflecting the reverence the ancient Shu people held for the divine thousands of years ago.
An immersive digital art exhibition opened at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing on Wednesday，using technology to present traditional Chinese music through interactive displays.
The 2026 Congress of the International Academy of Ceramics is being held in Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province, bringing together artists and experts from around the world to discuss the future of ceramic art.
Hami, a city in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, well known for its sweet melons and Silk Road heritage, just brought its flavors, culture and development story to Beijing on Monday, as they opened a weeklong showcase at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities, CCTV.com reported.
China's National Cultural Heritage Administration has issued new rules governing the management, security and use of state-owned cultural relic data, with the regulations set to take effect on Nov. 1.
An old Chinese saying describes this period as a time when the heat lingers day and night, while people have long made use of the strong sunshine to dry clothes, reduce dampness, and promote well-being.
Young performers present Xiaoyi Wanwanqiang opera, a national-level intangible cultural heritage item, during a showcase performance in Xiaoyi, Shanxi province.
The China-ASEAN Cultural Heritage Dialogue, themed "Enduring heritage, shared beauty for all," was held in Dunhuang, Gansu province, on Thursday.
China has expanded legal protection to cover 98.4% of the country's bird species as authorities step up efforts to combat illegal hunting and wildlife trafficking, a forestry official said.
At an international street dance competition in Beijing on Sunday, four young dancers from the Xizang Autonomous Region wowed the audience with a routine that blended hip-hop with traditional Tibetan dance forms.
Rongchang pottery, a traditional industry in Chongqing boasting a history of more than 800 years, is exported to over 30 countries and regions today.
An art show blending Li ethnic plant-dyeing and rattan-weaving techniques with modern fashion design was held at the Hainan Provincial Mass Art Center in Haikou on Saturday.
Thousands of celebrators are expected at events nationwide, including exhibitions, symposiums and public education programs, that have been scheduled to immerse the country in an atmosphere of cultural heritage and history to welcome China's annual Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, which falls on Saturday.
Visiting the Baiheliang (White Crane Ridge) Underwater Museum in Chongqing's Fuling District, human rights experts from 20 countries marveled at the 1,600-meter-long stone ridge submerged in the Yangtze River.
A symposium on cultural heritage protection and academic exchange was held in Paris on Thursday, bringing together senior officials and leading experts from China's Shaanxi province and France, to deepen cooperation in archaeological science, conservation technology, and cultural heritage protection.
In the ancient Chinese classic Journey to the West, the Monkey King is appointed bimawen, a title that sounds like "avoiding horse plague" in Chinese and is associated with caring for horses in the heavenly court. Though often treated as comic, the role reflects a genuine ancient belief: keeping monkeys in stables could protect horses from disease.
The ashes of Lungrik Namgyal, a respected Tibetan Buddhist leader, were returned from France to Daocheng County in Sichuan Province and interred in a stupa on April 19, 2026, in accordance with Tibetan Buddhist rituals.
Crowds gathered around bubbling pots of spicy red broth, dipping tripe, duck intestines, and more, sharing laughter as the steam rose.
In late February, as winter still clung to the mountains of Mabian, an Yi autonomous county in southwestern Sichuan province, Qiaojin Shuangmei carefully packed 15 sets of Yi embroidery for her trip to Beijing.
In 2021, when archaeologists opened the Xuewei No 1 Tomb in Dulan county, Qinghai province, the tomb chamber was a picture of chaos. Many artifacts were missing, while others lay scattered in pieces, bearing clear evidence of repeated tomb raids.
By utilizing computer-aided layer decomposition to create 18-layer, three-dimensional paper-cuttings, Hao is elevating Yangliuqing paper-cutting to a recurring national gift on the world stage.
The lively small clay figurines created for the Year of the Horse Spring Festival stand out among the traditional large sculptures of figures such as Guan Yu and Confucius at the Tianjin Clay Figure Zhang Studio in Dongli district, Tianjin.
China has estimated the wild population of Chinese pangolins in Guangdong Province at about 1,778, marking the first comprehensive survey of the species in the region, authorities said.
China has unveiled DeepZang, the world's first Tibetan-language large language artificial intelligence (AI) model, as it steps up efforts to develop AI tools for minority languages.
When Lyu Yan arrived in Beijing for this year's national legislative session, her suitcase carried more than personal belongings.
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