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The 36th Qingdao International Beer Festival opened on Friday evening in the coastal city of Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, kicking off a 30-day celebration that blends brewing tradition with tech advances and cultural performances.

Beijing International Book Fair opens with over 1,700 exhibitors2026-06-18
The 32nd Beijing International Book Fair opened Wednesday at the China National Convention Center, bringing together more than 1,700 exhibitors from 82 countries and regions and showcasing around 220,000 book titles.

Chinese language proficiency competition held in Israel2026-06-15
This year's "Chinese Bridge" Language Proficiency Competition for Israeli university students recently concluded in Tel Aviv.

Cultural heritage fuels tourism boom in east China county2026-06-12
As dusk settles over Huizhou Ancient City in Huangshan, east China's Anhui Province, processions carrying fish-shaped lanterns wind their way through stone-paved streets.

Young Chinese designers reimagine tradition with creative products2026-06-01
In a design studio in Wudi County, east China's Shandong Province, 22-year-old designer Li Zeyi is developing a new line of cultural and creative products inspired by ancient Chinese astronomy.

Deqing facility's 1,000th crested ibis milestone in China's restoration efforts2026-05-30
On a quiet morning recently, a 48.3-gram chick emerged from its egg at a crested ibis rescue and conservation base in Deqing, a water town in east China's Zhejiang Province.

Harvard students explore many faces of a changing China2026-05-28
Inside the Shenzhen headquarters of Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD, Harvard student Iseult Alice Fitzpatrick looked on in disbelief as a car rolled smoothly forward, balanced on just three wheels during a technology demonstration.

Hit film brings overseas Chinese remittance letters back into spotlight2026-05-22
Near the end of 2022, while searching for ideas for his third film, director and screenwriter Lan Hongchun wandered into a museum dedicated to qiaopi in south China and stayed for an entire day.

Chinese dialect film with first-time cast continues word-of-mouth surge as box office forecast tops 1 bln yuan2026-05-16
A low-budget, Chaoshan (Teochew)-dialect film featuring an almost entirely first-time cast has continued its remarkable word-of-mouth rise in China, with box office forecasts now topping the symbolic 1 billion yuan (about 146 million U.S. dollars) mark.

How a Chinese zero-celebrity, regional-dialect film becomes surprise hit2026-05-14
A low-budget, Chaoshan (Teochew)-dialect film featuring an almost entirely first-time cast has become one of China's biggest cinematic surprises of 2026.

China's largest Bronze Age meteoritic iron artifact unearthed at legendary Sanxingdui2026-05-14
Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a meteoritic iron artifact in the No. 7 sacrificial pit at the legendary Sanxingdui Ruins site, shedding new light on the early use of iron in southwest China and reshaping modern understanding of the ancient Shu civilization's Bronze Age technology.

Ancient villages in east China's Shandong breathe new vitality through conservation2026-05-08
Walking along the quiet, mottled flagstone paths of Wubu Village in east China's Shandong Province, visitors are greeted by an architectural tapestry of stone walls and grey tiles that whisper six centuries of history.

Redefining later life, Chinese retirees turn to overseas study, travel for vibrant new chapter2026-05-07
For 58-year-old Zhang Shaomei, retirement has never meant quiet days at home, as just three days after wrapping up her career, she flew to Malta, where she spent the next three months switching seamlessly between textbook lessons and global adventures.

"Experience economy" brews new vitality for Yunnan coffee2026-05-07
In the lush mountains of Pu'er in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Liu Xiaodong, head of a coffee estate, runs a "field classroom" in his coffee plantation.

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