For 27-year-old Beijing resident Tang Lin, going to the movies has once again become part of her summer routine. From Kung Fu Soccer and Dear You to All Wishes Come True! and Once Upon A Time in the Middle East, Tang has watched all four of the highest-grossing domestic films of the summer season which will end on Monday.

Surveillance images from the National Zoological Museum of China have sparked online outrage after two children were seen grabbing and kicking endangered animal specimens, while their father picked up the specimens and handed them to the children to play with. The museum said on Saturday that one specimen was damaged, with the incident later trending on Chinese social media and garnering more than 10 million views as of press time.

Teachers decorate a blackboard at a middle school in Xinle, north China's Hebei Province, Aug. 29, 2026. Various departments across the country are getting ready for the upcoming new semester.

When the red curtain fell at the World Forum Theatre in The Hague on Friday evening, the 1,500-seat auditorium was packed, and the audience rose to its feet in a sustained ovation, with applause and cheers echoing across the theater.

The recent online reports claiming that the Chinese Football Association (CFA) would not renew the contract of Antonio Puche, head coach of the Chinese U-23 national team and the men's Asian Games team, were false, the Chinese football governing body said in a Weibo (China's X-like social media platform) statement on Sunday.

On August 25, Federico Roberto Antonelli, the cultural counselor to the Italian Embassy in China, gave an interview to the Global Times. The outgoing diplomat reflected on his 20-year diplomatic career in China. Antonelli's China story began before diplomacy. Influenced by his mother's diplomatic work from childhood, Antonelli first arrived in China at the age of two, accompanying his mother, a sinologist who served as the Cultural and Press Counselor at the Italian Embassy. He has personally witnessed the country's rapid, high-quality development over nearly half a century, spanning early days of reform and opening-up to the present day.

During the past four decades, renowned Wuxi Opera (Xiju) performer Zhou Dongliang has dedicated himself to the melodies and traditions of this local Chinese opera. Behind the glory of the stage lies a lifelong journey accompanied by the quiet fragrance of books. For Zhou, reading has never been merely a pastime.

Inside the Shilong Cave in Qingzhen, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, visitors of all ages in outdoor gear glide slowly forward on paddleboards. The cave grows quieter as they move deeper inside, with their headlamps illuminating only a few meters ahead.

What did ancient people seal in a bronze pot 2,000 years ago? Chinese archaeologists and scientists have jointly confirmed the liquid residue as grain wine of millet and barley from the Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC), uncovering the mystery quest via cutting-edge technologies.

Tourists enjoy tea at a homestay in Wuyuan County, east China's Jiangxi Province, on Aug. 26, 2026. Wuyuan County is known for its picturesque countryside and well-preserved traditional villages. With two national 5A-rated tourist attractions and 12 national 4A-rated attractions, the county has been promoting rural tourism and creating more employment opportunities for local residents through tourism-related employment and entrepreneurship. Today, Wuyuan is home to more than 1,300 rural homestays, while the tourism industry directly supports more than 80,000 jobs.

The Russian Film Festival opened Thursday evening in five Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai. According to the organizers, the lineup features contemporary Russian films, historical dramas, family films and animated works, along with a special program dedicated to Russian animation. It is another major cultural event under the framework of China-Russia cultural cooperation.

North China's Tianjin Municipality has introduced dedicated regulations to strengthen protection of the Great Wall, becoming the latest of the 15 provincial-level regions that are home to the ancient heritage site to enact specialized local legislation. The regulations are set to take effect on Tuesday.

"Just found out about this beautiful Chinese perfume company and I need to smell of these so badly." This enthusiastic comment from a netizen overseas on X may sound like a small moment in the vast world of social media, but it captures a much bigger shift: Chinese perfume brands are increasingly moving from simply being seen overseas to being wanted. At the Esxence perfume fair in Milan this summer, the air around several Chinese booths carried notes of tea, osmanthus and agarwood. Visitors stopped to take in the scents, ask questions and browse products from Chinese brands seeking to make their mark in one of the world's most influential perfume markets.

A joint Chinese-Russian archaeological team has completed a month-long excavation and survey in Russia's Altai region, uncovering important evidence about early Iron Age social structures and cross-regional cultural connections across the Eurasian steppe, according to a press release that the Collaborative Research Center for Archaeology of the Silk Roads sent to the Global Times on Thursday.

The Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in China and Vietnam's northern Bac Ninh province jointly hosted a seminar titled “Bac Ninh Province: Joining Hands for a Shared Future” in Beijing on August 24 to promote investment and cooperation between Vietnam and China. In his address, Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Thanh Binh said that the event facilitates Chinese companies to gain a deeper understanding of Bac Ninh province's development potential and cooperation prospects.

With the 2026 Asian Games less than a month away, China is preparing to send a team that could offer an early glimpse of the country's next generation of sports talent. The Games, scheduled for September 19 to October 4 in Japan, come as a testing ground as the athletes gear up for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic cycle. For a number of young Chinese athletes, the event will provide an opportunity to move from promising domestic performers to competitors on one of Asia's biggest sporting stages. They have already made their names in very different ways. Some have broken national or Asian records. Some have won national titles. Others have emerged through professional leagues or overseas college systems.

Vaundy, a Japanese singer-songwriter, has called off his Shanghai performances scheduled for November 14 and 15 as part of his Vaundy Asia Arena Tour 2026 “HORO,” according to an announcement released on his official website on Wednesday.

Under the stars on Tuesday night, the powerful and expressive sound of suona soloist Zhang Qianyuan filled an open-air amphitheater in the Italian town of Tuscania. The vibrant notes of the traditional Chinese wind instrument evoked the ancient Silk Road heritage of Dunhuang, in northwest China's Gansu Province, while the violin, cello, trumpet and harp added layers of Western orchestral colors.

Research on Jurassic-era fossil katydids from Ningcheng County, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has provided the first evidence that insects capable of ultrasonic communication existed 165 million years ago, during the Middle Jurassic, a researcher at the Capital Normal University (CNU) told the Global Times on Thursday.

Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese avant-garde artist, has passed away at the age of 97, local media reported Thursday. Kusama, known worldwide for her repetitive imagery of polka dots, pumpkin sculptures and mirror-based installations, died of multiple organ failure on Aug. 14, Kyodo News reported.

"Is BiliBili looking to take on YouTube?!" An overseas user named ChaOtik posted the question on X after seeing Bilibili's official creator account launch a new account, adding that if the Chinese video platform really expands internationally, "I'll move over in heartbeat." Bilibili's official creator account, "bilibili Creator Hub," responded by saying that it would always welcome those who believed in the platform from the beginning.

Alan Macfarlane, 84, an emeritus professor of anthropological science at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the British Academy, has become an unexpected source of calm for millions of young Chinese.

Chinese blockbuster Once Upon a Time in the Middle East, which has so far earned over 1.7 billion yuan ($253 million) at the Chinese box office, is set for a global rollout across Asia, North America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, its official social media team confirmed on Tuesday.

An AI-generated animated short film has recently topped the overall ranking on Bilibili, one of China's largest video-sharing platforms. As of Tuesday afternoon, the short film The Book of Strange Tales: Asking about the People (Yaoyi Bu: Wen Cangsheng) had surpassed 14.5 million views, sparking widespread discussion over what truly defines the value and appeal of AI-generated works.

Paddleboard enthusiast Shen Dan recently took part in a fun competition along the North Moat near Deshengmen, one of Beijing's old gate towers in the city's heart. Being able to enjoy something like rafting in downtown Beijing is quite rare.

More than 150 people gathered Sunday evening at the China Cultural Center in Kuwait for the Chinese & Kuwaiti Tea Art and Treats Tasting event, where they savored teas and sweets and learned about tea-making traditions in both countries. Jointly organized by the China Cultural Center in Kuwait and Kuwait's National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL), the event was part of Kuwait's 18th Summer Cultural Festival. It aimed to introduce Chinese and Kuwaiti tea traditions and promote cultural and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.

Putting on headphones at a new exhibition hall in central China, visitors can hear a chorus of voices from across the country, including regional dialects, traditional songs in ethnic minority languages and field recordings of languages on the verge of extinction. The Exhibition Hall of the Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China opened Monday in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, bringing decade-long efforts to document languages and dialects to the public through digital and interactive displays.

China is set to launch its first joint archaeological project in South America, following an agreement between Chinese and Peruvian institutions to study the ancient Caral civilization. The move marks a new milestone in the country's growing overseas archaeological cooperation.

The highest-ranking noble cemetery complex from the late Xia Dynasty (c.2070BC-c.1600BC) ever discovered has been unearthed at the Zhongcun site in North China's Shanxi Province, expanding research on Xia and Shang (c.1600BC-1046BC) civilizations and early state formation in ancient China, according to a press release that the local institute of archaeology sent to the Global Times on Monday.

The 2026 Esports World Cup (EWC) concluded in Paris on Sunday local time, with Chinese esports club AG.AL (under Chengdu AG Esports Club) claiming the overall club championship. It became the first Chinese club to win the title since the tournament's launch, with French President Emmanuel Macron presenting the championship trophy.

Members of a Macao media delegation visit a flower exhibition hall in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 23, 2026. The Macao media delegation is on a visit to Kunming, Dali, and Lijiang in Yunnan Province from Aug. 21 to 27. The visit aims to strengthen exchanges and cooperation between Yunnan and Macao media.

The video came with almost no instructions. There was no narration explaining the mythology behind palaces rising above an ocean of clouds in the video, nor subtitles identifying the heavenly gates, cranes or tiny figures moving beneath them. Yet viewers outside China quickly began naming the world for themselves.

Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of plant-wrapped bundles dating back about 2,200 years that closely resemble modern-day zongzi, the glutinous rice dumplings traditionally eaten during China's Dragon Boat Festival, according to a report by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This study was published in the National Science Review.

At dusk, in an unassuming grove in Shouguang, East China's Shandong Province, performers dressed as Tang Sanzang (Monk Xuanzang), Sun Wukong (Monkey King) and other characters from the renowned Chinese classic Journey to the West set up a thatched hut and cooked around a bonfire while livestreaming. They were not fighting demons or embarking on a pilgrimage, but chatting, joking and improvising in response to comments from live viewers.

Chinese animated film Niu Lai, initially mocked online for its "worest" production, has become an unlikely box-office and internet sensation in China and abroad, spawning memes, merchandise and growing interest from global audiences.

Formula 1 (F1) has referred information about the logo used for a concert tour by Chinese boy group Teens in Times (TNT) to the appropriate team for review and investigation, after sport fans said that the design closely resembles F1's trademark, multiple Chinese media outlets reported.

Across the vast desert landscape of the Urad Rear Banner in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, one grassroots official has spent more than three decades turning barren sands into patches of green.

The Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in China hosted a commemorating session in Beijing on August 13 to mark the centennial of the birth of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz. The event is not only about remembering an individual leader, but revisiting a decades-old relationship. Delegates' speeches evaluated Fidel's role in promoting Cuba-China ties, especially when Cuba became the first Latin American and Caribbean country to establish diplomatic relations with China.

A Beijing visitor picked up a plate of rendang and a set of satay, learning about Indonesian spices, then paid the vendor by scanning a QR code. This is one of the typical user scenarios at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in China as it hosted Indonesia Fair the third year in a row in Beijing on August 15. Indonesian Ambassador to China Djauhari Oratmangun passionately welcomed all guests, inviting them to "taste Indonesia, hear Indonesia and dance to Indonesia."

Before becoming an award-winning science fiction writer, Baoshu was simply a fan fascinated by Hugo Award winner Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem. His desire to explore the universe created by the blockbuster trilogy led him to write The Three-Body X: Imagined Universe, a fan work that later became a published novel.

The Embassy of the Republic of Colombia in China hosted a colloquium with Héctor Abad Faciolince, a Colombian novelist, writer and journalist. The writer shared on Tuesday his growth journey from a journalist to achieve his dream as a writer, his observation to the Colombian society and his impression about the changes in China.

Huang Gang is in his fifties. Every day, he sits before a computer screen at Tianyige Museum (Tianyige), flipping through ancient books – digitally.

I have spent my whole life working with decorative patterns. A decorative pattern is a language, with its own grammar, rhythm and emotional expression. It is both decorative and symbolic, and it carries the aesthetic spirit of a nation and the cultural atmosphere of its times.

Chinese game developer Game Science has released a 15-minute trailer for Black Myth: Zhong Kui on Thursday morning, offering a more detailed look at the highly anticipated second installment in its Black Myth series and giving fans a glimpse of the game's combat and visual style.

Mohammad Abdi (R) learns about TCM herbal drinks from a doctor at Ningxia Chinese Medicine Research Center in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on Aug. 15, 2026. Mohammad Abdi, a 26-year-old Iranian student, came to China in 2023 to study clinical medicine at Ningxia Medical University

As the buzzer sounded, bench players sprinted onto the court, joining their Chinese and American teammates in a huddle, bumping fists and cheering, as they celebrated a hard-earned victory.

As night falls over Southwest China's Chongqing city, motorcycles begin to weave along Nanbin Road, with riders posing against the glittering skyline across the Yangtze River. Within seconds, the moving camera captures bridges, high-rises and riverside lights - creating a signature travel moment that has become known online as the "Chongqing Landing Visa."

As international tennis tournaments multiply across China this autumn, organizers are increasingly looking beyond the court, seeking to turn a trip to a tournament into a broader travel experience.

Romance, animations and crime dramas were competing for moviegoers as China's Valentine's Day arrived on Wednesday, with 19 films opening this week and recent blockbusters still holding strong at the summer box office.

What would you do if you were trapped in an underground parking garage that is being flooded?

Police in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province have offered a reward of 1 million yuan ($143,000) for information leading to the recovery of two stone lions stolen from a Tang Dynasty (618-907) imperial tomb complex, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Wednesday.

The Shanghai Science and Technology Museum welcomed its 100 millionth visitor on Tuesday, as a growing number of travelers are looking to make science and technology a part of their holidays. Zhang Zhiheng, a boy from east China's Shandong Province, was the landmark visitor. He visited the museum with his parents on the second day of his first trip to Shanghai.

From fewer than 1,700 participants at its first Beijing event to around 12,000 in a recent Shenzhen event, Hyrox is rapidly becoming one of China's newest fitness crazes.

Elliot James Reay could have copied every other Western act and sung a Taylor Swift cover. Instead, he took 1950s rock'n'roll to a live TV show where autotune is switched off and discovered a version of fame that Britain has forgotten.

Archaeologists at the Jizhong ruins site in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang Province, recently unearthed a large number of tinned iron armor plates and semi-finished pieces dating to the Wu period of the Three Kingdoms (222-280), according to the Shaoxing Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. These discoveries represent the earliest known tinned iron artifacts in China to date, as well as the earliest tinned iron production remains found in the world, proving that an organized, systematic craft industry for tin-plated ironwork existed at that time.

Rare glass-inlaid glazed pottery artifacts unearthed from ancient tombs in Northwest China's Shanxi Province have provided new evidence of extensive cultural and trade exchanges between ancient China and other regions more than 1,500 years ago, according to a press release that the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology sent to the Global Times on Tuesday.

As dawn breaks over Ol Kinyei Conservancy in Kenya's Maasai Mara ecosystem, rangers are already combing the grasslands for signs of unauthorized entry and poaching while keeping a close watch on wildlife. Among them is Chinese conservationist Zhuo Qiang, nicknamed "Simba," the Swahili word for lion. For him, this early-morning routine is driven by a broader mission to achieve human-wildlife coexistence.

China has unveiled the world's first comprehensive reference dictionary for the study of ancient bamboo and silk manuscripts, a discipline that has grown from early 20th-century archaeological discoveries into an international field spanning archaeology, history, law and paleography. Experts said this publication has closed a century-old academic gap in systematic scholarship in one of East Asia's most vital ancient textual disciplines.

In the days after Once Upon a Time in the Middle East opened across China, a striking chorus of overseas voices began to surface online. Moviegoers from South Africa, Iran, Thailand and elsewhere hailed the film as a rare departure from Hollywood's war stories, praising its decision to place US forces in the role of invader rather than "liberator." One widely shared post called it the movie that finally showed "the real America."

Open Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, and AI-generated short dramas are hard to miss. The stories span almost every genre familiar to Chinese audiences, from fantasy and immortal cultivation to urban romance and period tales.

After binge-watching several AI short dramas on Chinese short-video platforms, viewers may find themselves wondering whether they have accidentally stumbled into the same show again.

A performer takes part in a horse stunt show during the opening ceremony of the Nadam Fair in the Jalaid Banner, Hinggan League, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on August 16, 2026. The event features equestrian performances, singing, dancing, traditional music and folk displays.

From forgotten traditional buildings to short drama filming sets, some Chinese villages such as Yuanqiao village in Henan Province is thriving as short drama crews turn villagers into on-screen actors and bring more jobs as well as higher income to rural areas. Discover how acting, tradition, and modern storytelling are transforming China's ancient villages and what the rise of #AI dramas means for their future.

Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated The Odyssey officially opened in China on Friday, quickly becoming one of the hottest tickets of the summer movie season, with moviegoers scrambling for premium IMAX screenings and some even traveling to other cities for better viewing experiences with better screens.

A skin scan can assess dozens of facial indicators and generate a personalized skincare plan within minutes, with store staff then making small-batch adjustments from ordinary registered cosmetics. This practice is gaining ground as China expands its pilot program for personalized cosmetic services.

While Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and a string of high-profile domestic and international releases compete for audiences in China's fiercely contested summer movie season, an obscure animated film has emerged as one of the period's most unexpected box-office stories.

The upcoming 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games to be held in Beijing will see robot players stay at the “Robot Home,” as the organizing committee innovatively established on-site support centers that meet the needs for pre-competition training and power recharging – similar to athletes' village for human competitors, according to media reports.

Chinese animated fantasy-comedy "All Wishes Come True" held its North American premiere Thursday night in Los Angeles, ahead of its theatrical release across the United States and Canada on Friday.

At an amusement park in Beijing, a young female clown tossed an apple into the air several times, catching it each time and taking bites out of it along the way. The seemingly simple routine delighted visitors, many of whom pulled out their phones to film it. Videos of the act have garnered more than 6 million likes on Douyin, China's version of TikTok.

A Chinese real estate entrepreneur who has summited Everest three times has won a major literary award in SouthKorea for a novel that turns his mountaineering and business experiences into a story about human life, time and a changing China.

"Can someone my age still become an actress?" Standing backstage at a microfilm shoot, 55-year-old Wu Shaohua smiled at the camera and said she had never imagined that she would fulfill her "actor dream" in her lifetime. Wu's unexpected debut was made possible by a short drama experience program launched by Hengdian World Studios, one of China's largest film and television production bases, in Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang Province. Designed for ordinary visitors rather than professional actors, the program allows tourists to put on costumes, choose scripts, step in front of cameras and receive a professionally edited short video as a "souvenir."

When Li Yanbin's 18-year-old daughter Li Yutong was admitted to Peking University's Chinese language and literature program through this year's gaokao, the national college entrance exam, her village in Jieyang, South China's Guangdong Province threw open the heavy middle gate of its ancestral hall - an entrance ordinarily locked and reserved for only the most momentous clan events - and welcomed her with pounding drums, leaping lions and a ceremony.

As China's once-thriving live-action short drama industry looses speed due to the weight of AI-generated content and shrinking investment, a growing number of young actors who once starred in micro-dramas are moving to a different kind of stage: playing roles at cultural tourist attractions.

Years after tackling social issues in the breakout hit film Dying to Survive, Chinese director Wen Muye returns with Once Upon a Time in the Middle East. The film opened nationwide in China on Tuesday, and, including advanced screenings, crossed 200 million yuan ($29.6 million) at the box office on its first day.

Chinese archaeologists have discovered the earliest known pairing of dragon and phoenix clay sculptures in northern China, unearthed from a 4,300-year-old tomb in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, offering fresh insight into the ritual beliefs of the Longshan culture (3000 to 1900 BC), the Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Visitors browse books and take part in activities at the 2026 Shanghai Book Fair at the Shanghai Exhibition Center in Shanghai on August 12, 2026. The book fair, which runs through August 18, features a record 1,420 reading-related activities, up 12.1 percent from the previous edition, the organizers said.

At 5 am, Wang Piyu, deputy director of the Changhai County Natural Resources Affairs Service Center, sets out by patrol boat for Fantuozi Island, a core breeding site for Chinese egrets in the Changshan Archipelago, Northeast China's Liaoning Province. The island has no permanent residents.

Zhou Jiang, a researcher at the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, has a favorite book: White Deer Tableland or Bai Lu Yuan by renowned writer Chen Zhongshi.

Artists stage a performance during the 2026 Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 10, 2026. The event officially opened to the public on Tuesday on Budapest's Obuda Island, bringing together music, arts and cultural programs from Hungary and abroad. Running until Aug. 15, this year's festival provided around 12 themed districts offering music, contemporary arts, circus performances, sports, family and community programs.

Guo Lanying, a celebrated Chinese opera performer, vocalist and recipient of the national honorary title "People's Artist," passed away due to illness in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province on Tuesday at the age of 97, the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theatre announced on Wednesday early morning via its official WeChat account.

When the 38th Hundred Flowers Awards, one of China's three major film awards, concluded in Beijing on Tuesday, AI emerged as one of the event's new participants, alongside the stars on the red carpet and filmmakers receiving honors.

Even during summer break, changes to the admissions policy at the Communication University of China (CUC) have sparked heated discussions among students, with the reform becoming a hot topic on campus and on social media.

Christopher Nolan's new film has attracted considerable attention from audiences and critics around the world. Particularly interesting is its reception in China, where the Beijing premiere provided the occasion for a conversation between Nolan and the Chinese political philosopher Zhong Shu.

Chinese archaeologists have pieced together ancient oracle bone fragments to decipher what they say is the earliest written record of a meteor shower, dating back more than 3,000 years and shedding light on astronomical observation in the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC), roughly the Late Bronze Age in the West in which Homer's Odyssey was rooted.

Just after six each morning, 63-year-old Chen Zhongyi unlatches the wooden door of a pigeon loft outside his home in Beijing's Lanman Hutong. Within seconds, more than 20 homing pigeons burst into the sky, circling above the grey-tiled roofs before fanning out across the city. "That's when I feel happiest in the day," Chen said, his gaze following the birds as they fade from view.

For 17-year-old Han Ni Oo, a student at Myat Taw Win International School in Yangon, watching a Chinese space documentary was more than a film experience. It gave her a new sense of belief that one day, Myanmar could reach space. After watching "SHENZHOU 13," China's first space documentary, at the opening ceremony of the "Weekly Cinema, Shared Stories" Film Exhibition at the National Theater in Yangon on Sunday, Han Ni said she was inspired by China's achievements in space exploration.

China's premier digital publishing expo will open in late August, featuring for the first time an exhibition area highlighting the integration of traditional Chinese culture and online games. The 16th China International Digital Publishing Expo will run from Aug. 27 to 29 in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, according to the expo's organizing committee on Monday.

As China's summer movie season enters its final month, a sharp divide is emerging at the box office: A handful of highly anticipated films are drawing strong audience interest, while other titles have opted for release delays or full withdrawals amid fierce market competition.

Chinese pianist Ju Xiaofu has released his debut album Mist Without on Deutsche Grammophon, one of classical music's most respected labels. The recording, which came out in July, marks an important moment for a new generation of ­Chinese artists.

The monumental full length reportage Ballet of Commerce: The Epic of Guangdong's Foreign Trade by famous writer He Jianming is set to make its debut at the Southern China Book Fair from August 27 to 31 in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province.

On Saturday Beijing time, the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award ceremony was held in Canada. Eighty-year-old Chinese picture book artist Cai Gao attended the event in person to receive the medal and certificate, becoming the first Chinese illustrator to win this honor in the award's 60-year history.

Speaking to the Global Times, Mexican poet Manuel Becerra said that he felt it was a form of poetic justice that a delivery rider had recently won one of China's highest literary awards.

A promotion video featuring Chinese virtual actress generated by artificial intelligence (AI) for colored contact lenses has been removed from her short video account after drawing backlash over the credibility of a virtual character claiming real-world comfort of a product.

Books, meanwhile, have been an important gateway through which Liu has come to understand the world of games.

Despite outdoor temperatures nearing 40 degrees Celsius in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Australian tourist Roy Rostand was enjoying hotpot at a restaurant without air conditioning, apparently feeling no discomfort from the summer heat. The answer to his comfort lies in the restaurant's unlikely location. This hotpot restaurant, named Underground City, is hidden inside a former air-raid shelter, one of the city's distinctive spaces offering natural coolness.

The 5th China-Brazil film festival held its awarding ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. As part of the events held during the 2026 China-Brazil Cultural Year, the film festival will run from the 3rd to the 25th of this month, screening 19 films from China and Brazil.

A virtual AI actress has gathered massive followers and stirred widespread heated debate on Chinese social media - unlike conventional celebrities, this breakout star is entirely artificially generated.

Beijing has been designated as the UNESCO-UIA (International Union of Architects) World Capital of Architecture 2029, UNESCO announced on Wednesday. "Beijing was selected for its exceptional ability to bring together one of the world's richest architectural heritages with a forward-looking vision of sustainable urban development. Its historic urban fabric, successful regeneration projects and vibrant architectural culture demonstrate how heritage, innovation and community life can reinforce one another in shaping resilient and livable cities," says UNESCO in a press release.

A large number of new-generation commercial rockets developed in Beijing are moving closer to maiden flights, scheduled as early as within this year, as private aerospace companies accelerate their efforts to achieve reusable launch capabilities and build low-cost, high-frequency space transportation systems, the Beijing Daily reported Thursday.

A criminal case involving information leaks related to miHoYo, the developer of Genshin Impact, has reached its first-instance verdict. Two Bilibili (Chinese video-sharing platform) users were found guilty of copyright infringement and were sentenced to one year and two months and one year in prison, respectively, both with probation. It is the first criminal game leak case under a new judicial interpretation issued by China's top judicial authorities, according to miHoYo.