In Shanghai right now, something special is happening. Hosted by the China Theatre Association, the First Showcase of Outstanding Repertoires by China Theatre Plum Blossom Award winning artists has brought together 16 award winners and 10 classic productions. But this is more than just a festival of beautiful performances. It tells a bigger story: The story of how Chinese drama is stepping beyond old misunderstandings and taking a new place for itself in the world.

People interact with a performer at a tourist attraction in Baoting, south China's Hainan Province, May 29, 2026. Rooted in the distinctive traditions of the Li and Miao ethnic groups, the tourist attraction features immersive night tour experiences as its core draw. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)

China's doctor-turned-fighter Shi Ming defeated India's Puja Tomar via first-round submission in a UFC strawweight bout on Friday in the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), notching up her first victory in the UFC.

This year marks both the 63rd anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity, now the African Union, which was established on May 25, 1963, as well as the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between African countries and the People's Republic of China. The Group of African Ambassadors in China (GAAC) hosted a high-level diplomatic reception in Beijing on Monday to mark the Africa Day.

Martha Viviana Carvajalino Villegas, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia briefed media about her visit in China at a press conference on May 28 at the Embassy of the Republic of Colombia in China, underscoring aspiration for deeper bilateral agricultural cooperation. Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries officials told the Global Times in recent interviews that China's achievements in poverty elimination are remarkable and they want to refer to the country's experience and develop together through deepened cooperation.

The Embassy of the Republic of India in China hosted a celebration session to commemorate the 165th anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, a renowned Indian poet, writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate, in Beijing on May 22. Indian Ambassador to China Vikram Doraiswami said that in many ways, Tagore belongs not only to India, but to the shared cultural heritage of humanity.

In Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, a "sewing study room" is run by Yang Shuoqing, a local born in the 1990s who transformed her family's clothing repair shop into a self-study studio where customers learn to make their own bags, scarves, pet beds and jackets. "Most of our students used to be elderly residents from nearby communities who wanted to repair clothes," Yang told the Global Times. "But now more and more young people come in carrying sketches and patterns, hoping to create their own DIY designs."

Once having a hard time helping his child with homework yet later managing to write To Live, celebrated Chinese writer Yu Hua recently shared a short video on social media, drawing the attention of many, including Zhang Xue, a former poor repairman who is now leading his motorcycle brand onto the global stage. What resonated between these two rookies-turned big shots? The answer lies in the short video's theme: "caotai banzi."

Chinese online literature is now becoming a transnational language, influencing a growing number of readers and writers around the world, a web fiction industry professional shared with the Global Times at a showcase event for Chinese web novel writers held in Beijing on Thursday.

When reading a historical novel, readers often wonder: Is this part true, or was it made up? For a historical novel, what matters more - history or fiction? Renowned Chinese historical novelist Xiong Zhaozheng brings an answer to this question with his latest work: the first installment in his Khubilai. Decades of writing have shown him that a great historical novel should be an epic, unfolding literary imagination within a framework of real history.

China's overseas archaeological efforts have offered a distinctive "Eastern perspective" to global civilization studies, helping break Western-centric narratives and build a more inclusive framework for interpreting ancient human societies, Chinese archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), said on Wednesday.

Built in 1969 as an early civil air defense project, the site was closed in 2008 for repairs and renovations. After 18 years of closure, this underground space has now been transformed into the Beijing Civil Air Defense History Museum and opened to the public in May with free admission, the Beijing Daily reported.

Chen Hui, a vendor-writer who has published five works since 2018, shared how reading has shaped her inner world, laid the foundation for her writing, and given her the opportunity to see the world more broadly.

Chinese tennis player Wang Xinyu's French Open singles run came to an end on Wednesday after the 32nd seed suffered a hard-fought defeat to Germany's Tamara Korpatsch in the women's singles second round at Roland Garros.

Incorporating elements of Guangxi's Zhuang brocade into official licensed products for this year's FIFA World Cup, local artisans have recently been busy creating a range of Zhuang brocade-inspired souvenirs, including footballs, jerseys, caps, mouse pads and figurines at a studio in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Chinese TV series The Lead, adapted from the Mao Dun Literature Prize-winning novel of the same name, is now airing to great popularity. As one of writer Chen Yan's "stage trilogy," this decades-spanning drama around the growth of Qinqiang opera (a Chinese folk opera school thriving in Northwest China) artists has been the subject of much discussion since its release.

The nominations for China's TV-drama focused Magnolia Awards - one of China's top three ­television honors - at the 31st Shanghai Television Festival were revealed on Tuesday. This time, what has struck a chord with countless netizens is a name enclosed in a text box - Zhu Yuanyuan.

Geyuan Temple in North China's Hebei Province, reopened to the public this May, houses the wooden architecture that dates back to the Liao Dynasty (916-1125).

Chinese tennis ace Zheng Qinwen suffered a shocking first-round exit at the 2026 French Open on Monday, falling 6-4, 6-0 to Polish qualifier Maja Chwalińska in Paris in one of the biggest upsets of the opening rounds.

The 18th China Xinjiang International Road Cycling Race around Sayram Lake concluded Monday in the Bortala Mongolian autonomous prefecture in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with the completion of the 90-kilometer sixth stage, also the final stage, of the race surrounding the region's scenic lake. Local Xinjiang cyclist Hahelixi Habudeli became the champion of this stage as well as the overall competition.

Set within the city of Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang Province, Cicheng Ancient Town stands as most intact millennium-old town in the region. Going back as far as the Neolithic period, this area was already home to the early ancestors of Ningbo. From that time onward, the everyday customs, cultural traditions, and urban planning insights born from such human activities have been refined and passed down through generations within this ancient town.

On the evening of May 14, the ceremony for the 14th China Dance Lotus Awards, China's highest national professional award for dance, was held in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Rock Talk, an original dance production created and performed by a group of students from the Yinchuan High School in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, won the Chinese Contemporary Dance award.

The term "carb face" has recently sparked discussion on Chinese social media platforms. The trend has seen some short video influencers who pinch their cheeks and say, "This is the 'carb face' you get from eating steamed buns every day." Meanwhile, some social media users are posting photos claiming that their facial contours have become more defined after cutting out carbohydrates. For a time, staple foods like rice, noodles, and steamed buns have been forcibly linked with "becoming less attractive" and a "lack of self-discipline." Does eating carbohydrates really affect appearance and health?

Recently, the film Dear You has gained widespread praise, having crossed the 1 billion yuan ($146 million) mark at the box office, deeply touching countless viewers with family letters from over half a century ago. Each qiaopi, the handwritten letters and remittances sent home by overseas Chinese migrants, traveled across mountains and seas. Their words are limited, but their meaning is endless, expressing a lifetime of longing and love.

Beijing's first "writers' village" has officially opened in Mentougou district, launching a new cultural hub that integrates literary creation, academic exchange, works showcase, immersive experiences and culture-tourism development.

Northeast China's first cross-provincial urban football super league, dubbed the "Northeast Super League (NESL)," kicked off its opening matches across four key regional cities on Saturday night, launching a new grassroots-driven initiative to integrate sports, culture, tourism and business and fuel the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China, the China News reported on Sunday.

At the First China New Cultural and Creative Fair and Trendy Toy Carnival, queues formed early and rarely thinned.

China's word-of-mouth hit "Dear You" crossed the 1 billion yuan (about 146 million U.S. dollars) mark at the box office as of Sunday morning, according to ticketing platform Maoyan, reaching a major milestone for the low-budget, Chaoshan (Teochew)-dialect film featuring a largely unknown cast.

The 22nd China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair kicked off here on Thursday, showcasing over 120,000 cultural products. The Creative China exhibition area brings together domestic cultural IPs, sci-tech innovation products, cultural and tourism products, intangible cultural heritage products, and popular creative cultural products. Creative cultural products from more than 30 famous domestic cultural heritage institutions and museums are also showcased during the event, attracting numerous visitors.

The controversial Enhanced Games, marketed by organizers as a new sporting model embracing “science and innovation,” is set to begin on Sunday in Las Vegas, reigniting debate across the global sports community over athlete safety and fairness as it encourages the use of performance-enhancing substances.

The Chinese national under-17 football team suffered a narrow 3-2 defeat to Japan in the AFC U17 Asian Cup final in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Friday. However, their run to the final, the team's first time since 2004, has been hailed as one of the most encouraging performances by a Chinese youth team in recent years and considered offering hope for the future of the country's football development by football commentators.

For years, Chinese football has struggled with a familiar problem whenever facing Asia's top teams. Against Japan in particular, Chinese teams at various age levels frequently appeared overwhelmed by the pace, intensity and confidence of their opponents.

The Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in China and the International Cooperation Center of China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) jointly hosted China-Vietnam green industry international cooperation and exchange session in Beijing on Monday. Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Thanh Binh said the Vietnamese Embassy in China will continue to play a bridging role, working closely with institutions, businesses, and partners from both countries to promote concrete, efficient, and mutually beneficial green cooperation projects and programs. In his speech, Ambassador Pham said the world is facing severe environmental challenges, including climate change, resource depletion, air and water pollution, and energy security.

The largest sauropod dinosaur footprint fossil site found so far in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, namely the Beilianchi site in the Liupan Mountains, was recently discovered by researchers from the Geological Bureau of Ningxia and an expert team from China University of Geosciences (CUG), a professor with CUG told the Global Times on Friday.

The 2026 Beijing Museum Season officially kicked off on May 17 at the Capital Museum to celebrate the International Museum Day, which fall on May 18. Diplomats were invited to the inauguration ceremonies that features Maize, Gold, Jaguar: Ancient Maya and Andean Civilizations Exhibition – the latest installment in its "World Civilizations: Exchange and Mutual Learning" series initiated by the Capital Museum. Featuring some 800 treasures from over 20 cultural institutions in Mexico and Peru, the exhibition is the largest exhibition since the Capital Museum was founded. This year, the International Museum Day is marked under theme “Museums Uniting a Divided World.”

Under the theme of "Land Trace," the 2026 Beijing Dangdai Art Fair is held at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center from Thursday to Sunday. The Cervantes Institute in Beijing, a Spanish public institution that focuses on the teaching of the Spanish language and the visibility of Spanish and Latin American culture, participates in the art fair for the first time. Inma González Puy, director of the Cervantes Institute in Beijing, told the Global Times that the institute's participation further solidifies the organization's commitment to promoting dialogue between Chinese and Latin American cultures and showcases the artistic voice of northern Spain.

At an ethnic Miao embroidery workshop tucked in the mountains of Xiangxi, Central China's Hunan Province, the first thing visitors hear is not a guide's introduction, but the dense hum of embroidery machines.

At a reading room in Tashi township of Rongjiang county, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, Lai Lei, a reading ambassador of the county, spoke to a group of local artisans about the different ways reading had shaped her life.

Nearly 40 years after his passing, Joris Ivens, a filmmaker once alienated by his homeland the Netherlands, still lives in today's documentary cinema through the film legacies he left behind.

Wang Xinyu will head into the upcoming French Open as the top-ranked Chinese player while Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen has been rebuilding her game following her elbow injury. They are among five Chinese players who have qualified for the French Open. The women's singles draw also include veteran Zhang Shuai. The men's singles will feature Zhang Zhizhen and Wu Yibing.

The 22nd China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) officially opened at the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, on Thursday, turning 160,000 square meters of exhibition space into a dazzling display of more than 120,000 cultural items.

Archaeologists in North China's Shanxi Province have released excavation findings from a Tang Dynasty (618-907) tomb containing nearly 100 burial objects, including vividly painted pottery figurines, which reflect the artistic and funerary traditions of the peak period of the dynasty, according to the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology.

A total of 17 people received lifetime bans from engaging in any football-related activities for committing criminal offenses, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) announced on its official website on Thursday as it released its third batch of sanctions targeting misconduct in the football industry.

At 7:30 pm, 36 bamboo rafts linked together to form a 240-meter-long golden dragon glided slowly across the water, with its illuminated body winding through the lake like a living painting. Evening winds carried shimmering reflections across the river's surface, turning every snapshot into what many visitors described as a "Chinese-style blockbuster." The scene of the golden dragon parade, a municipal intangible cultural heritage (ICH) from Yangshuo county, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, did not unfold in the misty waterways of southern China, but in the heart of Beijing in mid-May.

In May, Chinese short drama Enemy took the internet by storm. This 13-minute low-budget work with zero promotion, set against the backdrop of the fall of Nanjing in 1937, tells a solemn and tragic story of two Peking Opera stars who sacrificed their lives on the stage to protect 30 innocent civilians.

China's annual "520" movie season, traditionally dominated by romance films tied to the country's unofficial Valentine's Day, is showing signs of diversification this year as thrillers and holdover May Day box-office hits compete alongside love stories for audiences' attention.

At the end of 2023, long before movie Dear You became one of the most talked-about Chinese films in recent years, director Lan Hongchun arrived on Guishan island in South China's Guangdong Province with his team to meet writer Chen Jiming, whose novel Home Letter traces Chaoshan culture and qiaopi, the handwritten letters and remittances sent home by overseas Chinese migrants.

The Women's Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA) club Inner Mongolia's runner-up title from the 2023-2024 league season was revoked and two people from the club were banned for life from basketball, according to a statement issued by the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) on Wednesday.

When asked about the Chinese mainland film Dear You, which has recently attracted widespread attention across the Taiwan Straits, and how to comment on the “affection and loyalty” and “love for family and country” conveyed in the film that have resonated strongly with audiences on both sides, Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Wednesday that the word “Ah Ma” carries the shared linguistic origin across the Straits, while the virtue of being affectionate and loyal embodies the cultural root and soul shared by people on both sides.

China defeated Australia 2-0 in the semifinals of the 2026 AFC U17 Asian Cup here on Tuesday, reaching the final for the first time in 22 years.

On the Liangma River in Beijing, young office workers balance on paddleboards after work, while newly built climbing gyms and pickleball courts fill up on the weekends. What was once seen as a niche pastime for a small group of enthusiasts is rapidly becoming part of everyday life in China.

Over the past few weeks, a most acclaimed and unexpected box-office success has not been a big-budget blockbuster, but a low-cost domestic film made almost entirely in a local dialect and without a single major star: Dear You.

Moving steadily along the tree-lined paths of Beijing's Olympic Forest Park on Tuesday morning, 16 pairs of runners, linked by a short guide rope and synchronized footsteps, set out on a half-marathon.

The only known Jin Dynasty (265-420) gold official seal issued to Koguryo discovered in China has officially entered the collection of the Museum of Ji'an City in Northeast China's Jilin Province and has been put on public display.

With promotional activities held to mark the 16th China Tourism Day on Tuesday, local city football leagues across the country have emerged as a major catalyst boosting cultural tourism.

Few would have predicted that Chengdu Rongcheng, playing only their fourth season in the Chinese Super League, would establish such a commanding lead early in the campaign when the season kicked off. After 12 rounds, the club from Southwest China has emerged as the undisputed pace-setter, collecting 11 wins and one draw for 34 points and sealing the league's unofficial "half-season title" with three rounds of the first half still to play.

The powerful, raw singing of Qinqiang Opera, a genre of folk Chinese opera originated in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, echoing from small screens across China is truly something special. A new drama called The Lead has become a hit with strong viewership numbers of about 4 percent. This pure Shaanxi-style drama has crossed regional and age boundaries to touch the hearts of people in Northwest China and surprise young viewers in southern cities who say they are completely hooked.

China celebrated the 2026 International Museum Day on Monday, with its flagship national event centered at the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot, capital of North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Officials from the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) released key data during the opening ceremony, underscoring the rapid expansion of the country's museum sector and its growing role as a bridge for cross-civilization exchanges, according to a press release issued by NCHA.

What makes these works truly remarkable is not merely their aesthetic appeal, but their role in resurrecting a lost chapter of Chinese craftsmanship. Pottery-based lacquerware, which traces its origins to thousands of years ago, was lost for over a millennium due to the extreme complexity of its techniques and fragile transmission.

The remains of a prehistoric furnace used for heat-treating stone tools around 17,000 years ago has been discovered at the Xinmiaozhuang site in Yangyuan county, North China's Hebei Province. This remains paint a clear and complete picture of the past, showing that people in the late Paleolithic era had already mastered complex fire technology and were able to use heat to transform natural materials with skill and understanding, Gao Xing, a research fellow at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), confirmed to the Global Times on Monday.

Brightly colored dragon boats sliced through the sparkling waters of Mission Bay in San Diego, Southern California, as the city hosted the 19th annual San Diego Dragon Boat Festival on Saturday, bringing Chinese cultural traditions to life.

Since 2005, Longmen Grottoes Academy has started the work of laser scanning and high-definition photography to preserve the 1,500-year-old Chinese stone carvings in digital form. In recent years, the team has led dozens of national-level and provincial-level cultural relic restoration and conservation projects and contributed to the preservation and monitoring of major cultural heritages including the Silk Road and the Grand Canal of the Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-907) dynasties.

Inside the Swallow Cave in Guiding County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, the digital world vanishes. Cell phone signals drop just 100 meters beyond the entrance, leaving only the sound of rhythmic dripping and the heavy breathing of explorers.

Chinese motorcycle brand ZXMOTO is setting its sights on the overall championship after securing its fifth victory of the 2026 FIM Supersport World Championship season at the Czech round on Sunday.

This combo photo taken on May 14, 2026 shows villagers in costumes preparing for a performance in Wujiatun of Zhangzhuang Village, Qiyanqiao Town of Anshun City, southwest China's Guizhou Province.

The National Museum of Afghanistan stands as a living sanctuary where the millennia-old history and identity of the Afghan people are intricately woven together. It serves as a steadfast custodian, preserving and transmitting this precious heritage from one generation to the next.

Archaeologists have discovered a high-ranking tomb from the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220) in Hohhot, capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Beyond unearthed artifacts, excavation of the tomb has provided insight into the cultural exchanges between China's frontier regions and the Central Plains over 2,000 years ago.

A few seconds at the very start of a Chinese TV drama have drawn great attention. When the series Bloom Life greeted viewers with a new on-screen message, "Protect originals, everyone's responsibility," audiences ­became focused on the issue of copyright protection again. This seemingly simple copyright warning has sparked debate across the industry and among the public. Does it hint at a deeper transformation in China's film and TV ecosystem?

The Shijiahe Site Museum in Central China's Hubei Province is set to open to the public on Tuesday, offering a major window into the prehistoric civilization that existed along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and findings from China's national project to trace the origins of its civilization, officials from the museum told the Global Times on Sunday.

China's badminton team produced a blend of breakthrough success and hard-fought disappointment at the 2026 Thailand Open Super 500 on Sunday, highlighted by a gold medal in women's doubles, a runner-up finish in women's singles, and a strong runner-up showing in mixed doubles by a young underdog pair.

Museums across China have been strengthening their role as cultural bridges through a growing range of international exhibitions and innovative public programs

Chinese actress Lu Yuxiao apologized on Saturday after sharing a live photo taken inside a cinema during a screening of the hit movie Dear You, a move that has drawn sharp criticism online.

Visitors learn to make ethnic handicrafts at the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 16, 2026. During the Night of Museums, an event held from May 16 to 17 in Russia, more than 140 museums, galleries, libraries, exhibition halls and concert halls stay open from evening till night, to mark the upcoming International Museum Day, observed globally on May 18.

The audience cheer up for contestants during the final of the 25th "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students in Cairo, Egypt, May 15, 2026. The final of the 25th "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students in Egypt was held here on Friday evening, with the attendance of 14 students majoring in Chinese. The finalists advanced from a pool of 26 contestants representing 14 Egyptian universities in the preliminary rounds.

China's under-17 men's football team came from behind to defeat hosts Saudi Arabia 3-1 in the quarterfinals of the AFC U17 Asian Cup on Friday, booking a place in the last four and continuing its remarkable resurgence on the continental stage.

China's first dedicated wildlife corridor bridge, spanning a ­canal in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is currently undergoing greenification, with work on the bridge surface scheduled to be completed by the end of May, an official with the canal construction project told the Global Times on Thursday.

Taking "montage" as its core theme, an exhibition titled Montage: From Dialectics to Dynamics is currently on view at the China Design Museum in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province. The museum itself is not only the first museum in China dedicated to design, but also one of the core exhibition venues of the China Academy of Art.

Many tourists made a special trip just to see him in Hetou Old Street during the recent holidays. The portrayal of legendary poet Li Bai by actor Wang Haonan has gone viral on Chinese social media.

Scientists in China have uncovered new information from six Homo erectus tooth fossils dating back around 400,000 years, suggesting a potential connection between Homo erectus and modern humans, while also developing new, less invasive paleoproteomics methods of fossil research.

A growing number of regionally rooted meals are being reinterpreted online as part of a broader "Chinese-style weight-loss diet" trend, ranging from northeastern rice wraps to Guizhou-style vegetable dishes served with dipping sauces.

From the riversides of Guangzhou in South China's Guangdong Province to the storied ramparts of Beijing's Great Wall, around 100 poets, writers and translators from China and 13 Arab countries have come together to seek kindred spirits through verse.

The Delegation of the European Union in China hosted the second EU-China Conference in Beijing on Tuesday. Under the theme "navigating beyond the inflection point," the forum hosted more than 500 delegates from various sectors, advocating for dialogue as the only viable path to advance bilateral ties, push for greater reciprocity, fairness and rebalancing in EU-China relations. With its inauguration edition held in May 2025 to mark the 50th anniversary of establishment of EU-China diplomatic relations, this second edition aims to offer a platform and host constructive, open dialogue between EU and Chinese stakeholders to narrow differences in perspectives and expectations.

The Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing hosted a lecture on Tuesday, inviting Zhou Zhiwei, a Chinese painter based in Italy, to share his journey pursuing his art dream and becoming a renowned artist over the past four decades. Zhou recounted his creative journey and his reflections on the encounter between cultures, taking the audience on an artistic contact between the East and the Mediterranean. Federico Antonelli, cultural counselor of the Italian Embassy in China, chaired the lecture. Antonelli recalled Zhou's first art exhibition staged at the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing, in 1984.

What began as a viral performance quickly turned the zoo into one of the country's hottest holiday destinations, while also giving many visitors a glimpse into what people are calling the essence of the "Northeast Disneyland." If traditional Disney parks are built on polished fantasy and highly commercialized Western fairy tales, then this homegrown version in northeastern China offers something entirely different: a rough-edged but heartfelt folk fairy tale filled with warmth, humor, and human connection.

With less than one month remaining before the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off, FIFA Secretary General Mattias Grafström met with senior Chinese sports officials in Beijing on Tuesday, voicing FIFA's support for the development of Chinese football while making no public response to ongoing disputes over broadcasting rights pricing and the absence of a Chinese-language option on FIFA's official website, according to reports by multiple Chinese media outlets.

China's total box-office revenue for 2026 has surpassed 14 billion yuan ($2.06 billion), according to data released by ticketing platform Maoyan.

China's qualification for this year's FIFA U17 World Cup after a 21-year absence serves as a timely morale boost in the youth development of Chinese football and reaffirms that sustainable youth training demands patience and long-term commitment.

Known as "Munao Zongge," the song, paired with scenes of the Jingpo people, one of the ethnic groups in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, dancing in elaborate costumes adorned with peacock feathers, has won widespread praise from netizens.

Upon analyzing the residue found in an ancient pottery jar unearthed in Turpan, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Chinese archaeologists discovered that it was actually Pu'er tea - a type of tea unique to faraway Yunnan Province in Southwest China.

At the 79th Cannes Film Festival, on Tuesday evening local time in France, actress Gong Li delivered the opening address and announced the opening of the film festival in Chinese. This marks the first time in Cannes history that a Chinese-born performer has delivered the opening address, drawing widespread attention on Chinese social media platforms. At this year's festival, two Chinese AI-generated short dramas were also selected for the official screening section for the first time, becoming another focus for netizens.

Once called "cough syrup" when it was first introduced to China, coffee has now swelled into a compound industry in China exceeding 350 billion yuan ($51.5 billion) a year, as of 2025, showing it has long become a daily commodity for countless Chinese.

Without hesitation, Gao recited some of the most powerful lines from the movie The Tokyo Trial, recalling every historical detail with striking precision. Twenty years on, that chapter of history seems to have become part of his very being.

Well-known Chinese mainland artists like Zhang Linghe and Liu Yuning, who enjoy immense popularity in the island of Taiwan, will be invited this year for performances, seminars and other activities in Taiwan to promote cross-Straits cultural exchanges, head of an artist agency association based in Taiwan said on Monday in Beijing, Chinanews.com reported.

China will mark 2026 International Museum Day with its flagship national event in Hohhot, the capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, returning the main venue to the grassland city for the first time in a decade, authorities from the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) said at a press conference on Monday.

In the US National Archives, a film canister awaited the arrival of Chinese director Chen Yi'nan until 2015. Using a ballpoint pen to pry it open, Chen took out the reel and mounted it onto a projector. As black-and-white images flickered into view, a historical dialogue spanning time and space quietly began.

The successful title defense by the Chinese men's team at the 2026 World Table Tennis Championships Finals in London on Sunday was a triumph of teamwork and the squad's fighting spirit in the face of adversity. However, the victory sounded the alarm bell for China to strengthen its talent pipeline and accelerate tactical and technical innovation, a sports analyst told the Global Times on Monday.

Some stories do not touch audiences with events, but with what remains after those events: a letter that never arrived in full, a name that carries weight, a promise left open. Dear You begins in these remnants, and slowly expands them into something larger than memory.

Sanxingdui Ruins Pit NO.7 yields rare ancient meteoritic iron artifact. Scientific archaeology reveals it as Southwest China's earliest Bronze Age extraterrestrial metal find.

Under the gentle ripples of a lagoon in early summer, the historic brick walls of the Arsenale di Venezia bore witness to a profound dialogue between Eastern poetics and contemporary technology. The China Pavilion at the 61st Venice International Art Biennale opened on Friday, presenting "Dream Stream" as its central theme.

Applying non-destructive technological means to research the Great Wall, an archaeological project was recently launched at a Northern Qi (550-577) Great Wall site in Beijing, marking the city's first research-led archaeological project focused on the early sections of the Great Wall.