In pics: mid-autumn moon across China

At an Asian Games in which established champions remain central to China's medal campaign, a younger generation of Chinese athletes is increasingly making itself impossible to overlook.

Greek Embassy in China hosted an award ceremony of the photo contest "Greece Through China's Lens" to mark the 20th anniversary of China-Greece comprehensive strategic partnership. Ambassador of Greece to China Evgenios Kalpyris and Chang Jian, Deputy Director General of the Department of European Affairs at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, highlighted the achievements of cultural exchange, resonance and cooperation between the two countries in their speeches. Ambassador Kalpyris underlined in his opening remarks that the millennia-old exchanges between the two civilizations of Greece and China are so important. Today, the Greek Embassy in China celebrates the two-decade old China-Greece comprehensive strategic partnership. "Let us seize this important milestone of the 20th anniversary to achieve even more fruitful results," the diplomat said, extending his gratitude to all the participants of the competition.

Bathed in gentle indoor light, a magnificent 15.1-meter-long, 7.52-meter-high Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) mural hangs in the hall of the Chinese Traditional Culture Museum in Beijing, captivating visitors who pause to admire its solemn aura.

China's National Cultural Heritage Administration on Thursday announced new results from three overseas joint archaeological projects, including the discovery of twin sacred lakes at the Montu Temple site in Egypt, the Ben Arous Forest site, Punic-to-Roman remains in Tunisia and the Krasnaya Rechka site, a medieval urban layout in Kyrgyzstan.

Britain returned 12 cultural relics and artworks to China at a handover ceremony held at the Chinese Embassy in Britain on Wednesday evening.

On the world maps most of us have seen since childhood, Greenland looks almost as big as Africa. But Africa is actually about 14 times larger, and Russia and Canada also appear far bigger than their true size. That does not mean the maps are simply "wrong."

China's under-23 men's football team advanced to the quarterfinals of the Asian Games as Group B winners after playing out a 0-0 draw with the United Arab Emirates in Japan on Wednesday.

Fu Youxu presses the airbag of a small syringe, and a thin line of white adhesive slowly seeps through a crack in an ancient mural.

Students from the Confucius Institute of the University of Abomey-Calavi recite poems during a poetry event celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in Cotonou, Benin, Sept. 22, 2026. The Chinese Cultural Center in Benin and the Confucius Institute of the University of Abomey-Calavi jointly held the event on Tuesday.

From certain angles, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art looks less like a building than a weather event. A white shell of 1,271 curved fiber-reinforced polymer panels seems to hover above the tree canopy in Exposition Park. Sunlight pours through a 56-meter central arch onto a public plaza below. Founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the museum opened in Los Angeles, the US, on Tuesday.

From certain angles, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art looks less like a building than a weather event. A white shell of 1,271 curved fiber-reinforced polymer panels seems to hover above the tree canopy in Exposition Park. Sunlight pours through a 56-meter central arch onto a public plaza below. Founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the museum opened in Los Angeles, the US, on Tuesday.

Chinese state media reported on Tuesday on the recently concluded 13th edition of the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) exhibition in South Africa, where Chinese equipment, including the J-10CE and JF-17 fighter jets and the Y-20 large transport aircraft, were displayed together, drawing significant attention.

"There are robot dogs, cars and manufacturing technologies, nail machines and AI coffee machines," Nang Si Thoung, a student at Brainworks International School in Myanmar, told the Global Times, recalling what she saw during her days in Nanning, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. "They provided us with examples, not only explanations, so it was really clear." For 16-year-old Thoung, it was one of the most memorable parts of her first trip to China.

At sunset, rainwater kept seeping into a basement in Lintong, Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, while the stuffy air inside made it hard to breathe. Yet actors and crew members stayed there for an entire day of filming.

The Chinese community in Botswana gathered on Sunday at the Gaborone International Convention Center in the capital of Botswana, celebrating the Chinese traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on Sept. 25 this year.

Representatives from French cultural institutions hailed China's support in the restoration of the Notre Dame Cathedral and shared their insights on the in-depth cooperation between France and China in the field of cultural heritage preservation during a salon held in Beijing on Monday.

Chinese gymnastics star Zhang Boheng successfully defended his individual all-around title at the Asian Games in Nagoya with 85.065 points on Monday, edging out Paris Olympics champion Shinnosuke Oka and Tokyo Olympics champion Daiki Hashimoto of Japan.

Twelve years after making his Asian Games debut, Chinese equestrian Hua Tian is preparing for his fourth appearance at the continental multi-sport event, with more experience and a deeper pool of horses at his disposal.

Fossilized tracks of a previously unknown giant horseshoe crab species dating back more than 240 million years have been discovered in eastern China, offering new evidence that marine ecosystems recovered far faster after Earth's deadliest mass extinction than previously thought, according to a press release that the research team sent to the Global Times on Monday.

After more than four decades on the Qinqiang stage, Li Mei is still taking on new roles. China's first-class actress, head of the Shaanxi Opera Research Institute and two-time winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, Li is best known for roles such as Li Huiniang, the wronged ghost in Wandering the West Lake, whom she has played more than 1,300 times.

Thirteen-year-old swimmer Yu Zidi of China made a record-breaking Asian Games debut in Tokyo on Sunday, spearheading a prolific opening medal day for China as its athletes collected 11 gold medals across the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. China now tops both the gold medal table and overall medal tally.

Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a high-ranking royal mausoleum dating back to the late Warring States Period (475BC-221BC) in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, with substantial evidence suggesting it might be the burial place of Queen Dowager Huayang, the adoptive grandmother of Qinshihuang, China's first emperor who unified China for the first time more than 2,200 years ago, according to a press release that the local archaeological authority sent to the Global Times on Sunday.

Chinese trail runner Zhao Jiaju crossed the finish line in Courmayeur, Italy, after 65 hours, 55 minutes and 22 seconds, winning the men's title at the TOR330 “Tor des Géants” ultramarathon and setting a new course record, 13 minutes faster than the previous record of 66 hours, 8 minutes and 22 seconds, set by French-Belgian runner Victor Richard in 2025. He is the first Chinese runner and the first non-European runner to win the race since its inception in 2010.

The 20th Asian Games officially opened on Saturday night, offering an opportunity to look back on another remarkable journey: the transformation of Chinese sport over more than half a century.

Much of Sun's reading still takes place in the time left over from work. But some of the books he encountered as a child have stayed with him for decades.

Minning is a town named after a partnership. “Min” comes from Fujian Province in Southeast China, while “Ning” refers to Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region – bringing together a prosperous coastal province and an impoverished inland region more than 2,000 kilometers away.

As the haunting melodies of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto filled the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) on Thursday evening, Ro Jae-hun, ambassador of the Republic of Korea to China, emphasized the timing as a pivotal moment for bilateral cultural exchanges. The performance marked the China premiere of the first-ever opera co-produced by China and South Korea.

Australian athlete Joanna Wietrzyk publicly apologized on Thursday after a mid-race bowel incident at the Hyrox Beijing event on September 12, saying she regretted not stepping off the track and would retroactively withdraw from the race and forfeit the points she earned.

The Embassy of the United Mexican States in China hosted a grand event celebrating the 216th anniversary of Mexico's independence in Beijing on September 11. At the reception, Jesus Seade, Mexican ambassador to China, stressed in his address that Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico Roberto Velasco Álvarez, who recently visited China, had received a warm welcome. The two sides had further enhanced political mutual trust and built consensus on cooperation, injecting new momentum into the China-Mexico comprehensive strategic partnership, he noted.

The Embassy of the French Republic in China launched the 2026 Franco-Chinese Month of the Environment (MFCE) at the Beijing Municipal Forestry and Parks Bureau in Beijing on Monday. Diplomats, a Chinese official in the industrial sector and an image ambassador for the campaign urged more action be taken to raise awareness and protect our shared home - Earth. This year, the campaign is themed "A Planet Full of Life," paying tribute to the magnificent diversity of the Earth's biosphere while reminding humanity to focus on the threats it faces and the resulting challenges.

With the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games set to officially open on Saturday, Chinese athletes are arriving in Japan as the Chinese delegation prepares to defend its dominant position on the Asian Games gold medal table for the 12th consecutive time.

The annual fair, which will run through September 27, has become a familiar fixture of Beijing's cultural calendar.

Chinese women's cricket team's long-awaited return to the Asian Games ended before it could even take the field, as its quarterfinal against Bangladesh was canceled due to a waterlogged pitch on Wednesday during the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan, Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.

China's micro-drama users have surpassed 800 million, and the market exceeded 100 billion yuan in 2025, a senior broadcasting official said on Thursday, as the country released 430,000 micro-dramas in the first eight months of 2026, 13 times the total for all of last year, with AI-generated titles accounting for more than 90 percent. The figures underscore a boom that is reshaping content creation and prompting tighter scrutiny.

A total of 58 cultural relics, works of art and paleontological fossils were returned to China by the Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Program of the US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) at a handover ceremony held by the Chinese Embassy in the US on Wednesday, according to a report published by the embassy's official WeChat account on Thursday.

Athletes from China and several other countries and regions were stranded for hours near Nagoya airport on Wednesday after transport arrangements broke down, leaving some waiting nearly six hours without food as they tried to reach their accommodations ahead of the Asian Games, Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Lebanon on Wednesday returned to Egypt 37 ancient artifacts that had been illegally smuggled into Lebanon, according to a statement by Lebanon's Culture Ministry. Lebanese Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh handed the artifacts over to Egyptian Ambassador to Lebanon Alaa Moussa at a ceremony at the National Museum in Beirut.

Three exceedingly rare mammal species have been caught on camera for the first time in a protected conservation area in Southwestern Cambodia's Koh Kong province, conservationists announced in a joint press release on Wednesday. The recorded mammals include the endangered Hog Deer (Axis porcinus), the Large-spotted Civet (Viverra megaspila), and the Hairy-nosed Otter (Lutra sumatrana). The photos and videos were captured between late 2025 and early 2026 during a comprehensive camera-trap survey at the site.

The Early Spring, an urban workplace romance produced by China's online video platform Youku, has become the highest-ranked Chinese mainland series ever on Netflix's global non-English TV chart, a result that industry analysts say marks a shift in how Chinese audiovisual content is winning over overseas audiences.

For decades, Chinese athletes standing on an Asian Games podium have often been associated with uniforms dominated by red, yellow and white. At the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, however, the visual picture will be markedly different as blue will take the center stage.

The monastery courtyard was quiet. The air was thin and cold. That night in Gannan, on the edge of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Eli Marx slept in the room of a 16-year-old monk.

At the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, the capital city of Central China's Hubei Province, visitors can now point a smartphone at a bronze sword more than 2,000 years old and ask, in the local Wuhan dialect, why it still looks sharp. The answer comes back in the same accent.

Xu Huping, former director of Nanjing Museum in East China's Jiangsu Province, who was at the center of the incident where some ancient paintings donated to the museum were found to be sold, has been sentenced to three years in prison for illegally providing assistance to others in securing construction projects and facilitating business cooperation, and accepting property from others in return, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Right at the most bustling intersection beside West Lake, one of China's most iconic cultural landmarks, Pop Mart has opened its largest flagship store in the country. Long before the doors opened on Saturday, eager crowds had already snaked through the Hubin Yintai in77 mall in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, to get an early look at the new store.

Chinese Super League clubs began their new Asian campaign on Tuesday with hopes of reversing their recent struggles in continental competition, with reigning Chinese Super League champions Shanghai Port defeating Ratchaburi FC of Thailand on the away pitch and Chinese FA Cup holders Beijing Guoan beating South Korea's Pohang Steelers 3-1.

Fox spirits, the Monkey King, mythical birds and ancient monsters are finding new life on Chinese short-video platforms - this time without the need for a conventional film crew.

In the crystal-clear water, Chinese athlete Yang Lu, dressed in traditional Chinese opera makeup and clothing, danced gracefully beneath the surface. The expressive charm of a traditional opera role shone through her eyes and facial expressions, while every raised hand, turn and bend of her body transformed the carefully coordinated gestures and movements of opera into fluid motions underwater.

The 37th Galaxy Awards, which concluded on Friday, saw a 1990s-born writer sweep three major awards, a pop star's sci-fi book attract attention after making the shortlist, and the Best Long Novel Award left vacant.

For 23-year-old Chinese snooker player Bai Yulu, reclaiming the world No.1 ranking was not quite the celebration it might have been the first time around.

In response to an incident where a competitor defecated while competing, Hyrox China issued a statement on Monday afternoon, saying it will push for additional rules covering scenarios involving extreme physical discomfort and public health risks at competition venues.

Indoor fitness competition Hyrox has vowed to ban anyone who threatens or encourages harm against athletes after a controversial incident at its Beijing event triggered a heated debate over sportsmanship, hygiene and the responsibilities of both competitors and organizers.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the China National Symphony Orchestra (CNSO). Over seven decades, the orchestra has evolved alongside China's symphonic industry, excelling in interpreting Western classical masterpieces while pioneering original Chinese symphonic works, nurturing professional musical talents, and facilitating cross-cultural artistic exchanges worldwide.

Chinese anti-war film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East is expanding its global reach, with the film hitting in China's Hong Kong and Macao and rolling out in the markets of New Zealand, Malaysia and Australia on Friday.

Chinese motorcycle entrepreneur Zhang Xue is setting his sights beyond race victories, saying he hopes to cultivate a Chinese world champion within five to 10 years.

Chinese short film The Pigeon Ring won the Venice Immersive Grand Prize, the top award of the Venice Immersive section, at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Saturday.

The Fourth Dragon Boat Festival kicked off Saturday in Yambol, the administrative center of the Yambol Province in southeast Bulgaria, featuring dragon boat demonstrations and diverse cultural showcases.

Experience deepens, of course, yet before every show Zhang Ran returns to the text and reads a passage again. In her youth the famous couplet "What a riot of purple and crimson blooms - all left to broken wells and crumbling walls" filled her imagination with color.

Northern China has entered a high-risk period for autumn pollen, with health and weather authorities warning that pollen levels will remain high in many areas in early September. The National Health Commission and the China Meteorological Administration on September 1 jointly issued the country's first pollen concentration forecast notice for autumn, according to a report by the People's Daily. The notice said that most parts of northern China will see sunny to cloudy weather over the following week, creating favorable conditions for pollen production and spread.

Many tourists choose to travel to Anshun, a city in Southwest China's Guizhou Province, for the picturesque Huangguoshu Waterfall. But the first thing that greets some visitors has nothing to do with the waterfall.

Laughter and friendly competition filled the air here on Tuesday, as Chinese and Namibians came together over games, music and dance at the China-Namibia Culture Fair in Windhoek, the Namibian capital. Hosted by the Chinese Embassy with support from Namibia's Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture (MEIYSAC), the event roared to life as a cornerstone celebration for the 2026 China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges. What began for some attendees as a casual visit quickly turned into a dive into cross-cultural connection.

The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in China has hosted a series of cultural events in Beijing, from music to new book launches, cultural exchanges sessions. These events mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations while deepening people-to-people exchanges.

The world's first specialized museum dedicated to the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs, the Hami Pterosaur Museum in Hami, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, will open on Sunday, Wang Xiaolin, a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the Global Times on Thursday.

While Christopher Nolan's long-awaited epic reimagining of the Odyssey summoned ancient heroes using Hollywood's full arsenal of scale and spectacle, a different kind of Chinese film was finding audiences abroad by doing the opposite: looking closely at ordinary people, local dialects, and the quiet weight of family memory.

A 120-million-year-old dinosaur fossil has been recovered from a 473.2-metre-deep drilling core in North China's Inner Mongolia Auton¬omous Region. Chinese scientists said the discovery represents the first dinosaur find in the western Yingen-Ejinaqi Basin, extending the known western range of Early Cretaceous dinosaur remains in the region, according to a press release that the research team sent to the Global Times on Thursday.

Former Olympic champion Liu Xiang has chosen to leave the state sports system through a voluntary buyout, 11 years after retiring, the Shanghai Sports Bureau said Wednesday afternoon. The move comes as the hurdler's comments anpit his retirement arrangements have sparked public discussion.

The Chinese version of a mobile game, “Travel Frog: China Journey,” will shut down in December because its Japanese IP rights holder reportedly “proposed stringent terms” during renewal negotiations, according to Nandu N Video by the Southern Metropolis Daily on Wednesday.

Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a wealth of artifacts and remains at a 2,500-year-old settlement in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang Province, offering new clues to the social organization and water management of the ancient Yue Kingdom, which preceded the Qin Dynasty (221 BC-207 BC).

China's Zheng Qinwen saw her remarkable run at the 2026 US Open ended in the women's singles quarterfinals on Thursday as she lost 1-2 to second seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, but her resurgent form and never-say-die spirit have won wide praise.

Before China introduced its new rules governing AI companions, the sophomore at a university in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, chatted almost every day with an AI agent on an AI companion app.

The latest trailer of Chinese third-person action role-playing game Genigods: Nezha has drawn more than 200 million views on overseas social media platforms in seven days since its release during Gamescom 2026, according to the Xinhua News Agency. The trailer has surpassed 6 million views on Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili as of Wednesday.

Chinese film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East held premiere screenings in Malaysia and Australia on Tuesday, drawing praise from local audiences, with some describing the film as "realistic" and "moving."

This photo taken on Sept. 8, 2026 shows the gold, silver and bronze medals of the 48th WorldSkills Competition at Shanghai Mint Co., Ltd. in east China's Shanghai. Shanghai Mint Co., Ltd. has officially shipped all the medals for the 48th WorldSkills Competition recently, which will be awarded at the competition scheduled to take place in Shanghai from Sept. 22 to 27.

China's Supreme People's Court on Monday issued guidelines for handling AI-related disputes, addressing issues of broad public concern including AI-generated face-swapping, voice cloning and other deep synthesis abuses, bringing long-awaited legal guardrails to the booming domestic short drama sector.

A record of a solar eclipse from the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC) has been discovered among a set of oracle bones that had been pieced together. "The inscription uses the extremely rare phrase 'eclipse of the sun,' referring specifically to a partial solar eclipse," Mo Bofeng, a professor at the Center for Oracle Bone Studies, Capital Normal University (CNU), told the Global Times on Monday.

China's Zheng Qinwen staged a remarkable comeback from 0-5 down in the opening set to beat eighth seed and former champion Iga Swiatek 7-5, 6-3 on Tuesday and reach the US Open quarter-finals for the third time.

China's Zheng Qinwen staged another thrilling comeback from 5-0 down to beat eighth seed Iga Swiatek of Poland 7-5, 6-3 to secure a quarterfinal berth in the women's singles of US Open on Monday. In Saturday's previous round, Zheng had bounced back from 5-0 down in the deciding set to eliminate home player Madison Keys.

Actress Ellen Burstyn reacts during the awarding ceremony of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Sept. 7, 2026.

As athletes raced over walls and through a series of obstacles in Beijing on Sunday, the UIPM 2026 Obstacle World Championships came to a close, with cheers ringing out from around the course. The event came as obstacle racing prepares to make its Olympic debut at the 2028 Los Angeles Games, replacing equestrian as the fifth discipline of modern pentathlon, a sport that has included horse riding for more than a century.

Several Hollywood classics are returning to Chinese mainland cinemas following the end of the summer movie season, offering audiences a chance to revisit familiar films while helping theaters fill screens during a traditionally slower period.

Under a dark sky, runners wearing headlamps made their way through forests and over rocky trails near Songhua Lake in Northeast China's Jilin Province last weekend, their lights forming a moving line across the rugged mountains.

At the 2026 Esports World Cup in Paris, France, 28 Chinese clubs competed across 24 titles during this year's seven-week tournament. Chinese esports club AG.AL claimed the overall championship, while KSG won the Honor of Kings World Cup, BaiSha Gaming took the CrossFire title and JDG finished third in Call of Duty: Warzone.

Organizers of the China GT Championship acknowledged shortcomings in the management of emergency response and rescue operations following a serious crash at the series' Shanghai round. A driver pulled a rival from a burning car, while participating teams and drivers accused event organizers of failing to respond adequately.

China's tennis star Zheng Qinwen staged a remarkable comeback from 5-0 down in the deciding set to defeat home favorite Madison Keys 1-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5 on Saturday and reach the US Open women's singles round of 16.

How do you bring a coastline back to life? In Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province, mangrove forests now thrive where aquaculture and pollution once dominated, while a once notorious “stinking lake” has been transformed into an urban ecological hub.

Visitors are seen during the China Culture & Tourism Industries Expo in north China's Tianjin, Sept. 3, 2026. The four-day expo kicked off here on Thursday, featuring 10 themed exhibition areas to showcase emerging modes and scenarios in the development of culture and tourism industries.

The Russian Cultural Center in Beijing held a grand event commemorating the 81st anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War on September 3. The event featured a photo exhibition, short film screenings, and a concert.

China's film market is gearing up for a busy September, with multiple new films scheduled to hit theaters in the run-up to the National Day holiday season (October 1-7). Several US films are set to open on Friday, including the thriller Fall 2: Dead Point, action crime film Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair and action mystery film Mutiny, alongside other releases spanning multiple genres.

After living in Jingdezhen for years, Colleu has become so familiar with the city that introducing it to his friends from abroad comes almost as naturally as talking about his hometown.

China will further crack down on toxic fan culture in sports and promote healthier behavior during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30), while expanding sports consumption and aiming to increase the total size of the sports industry to more than 7 trillion yuan ($986 billion) by 2030, Gao Zhidan, director of the General Administration of Sport of China (SGAS) said at a State Council Information Office press conference on Thursday.

In a gallery of golden wheat fields on canvas, Wang Yaoyao in a pale pink qipao is a quiet contrast. The academically trained painter now embraces the unruliness of farmer painting -- a typical Chinese naive art. At the exhibition hall in the financial hub of Beijing, under Wang's brush, a traditional paper-cutting-style piglet leaps onto a palette, and dives deep into a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors.

On August 25, one month after its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Global Times visited Jingdezhen, the famed "porcelain capital" in East China's Jiangxi Province, to explore what the recognition means for a city whose identity has been shaped by porcelain for more than a millennium.

China's first full-length AIGC drama Beyond Wukong aired on prime-time satellite TV recently, igniting heated nationwide debate over whether AI can faithfully revitalize traditional literary classics without sacrificing human artistic depth and creative soul.

Looking forward to the upcoming Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan, Olympic champions Zhang Yufei and Qin Haiyang told the Global Times during an event in Beijing on Wednesday that they plan to leverage the tournament as an important test on the road to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

In this installment, we meet Greek drama scholar Luo Tong, the third generation of her family to devote herself to the study of Greek culture and its connections with China. She grew up surrounded by Greek literature, following in the footsteps of her grandfather, renowned translator Luo Niansheng.

The football squads for the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games were officially unveiled on Tuesday, with Wu X I, Zhang Yuning and Zhu Chenjie named as the three overage players in China's 23-player U23 men's squad. For the women's team, star midfielder Wang Shuang will lead a lineup that includes veteran Zhang Rui and forward Shao Ziqin.

Real Madrid sparked criticism from Chinese fans after using “Tibet” alongside Nepal in a social media post for a pre-match tribute, which many viewed as an inappropriate reference to China's Xizang Autonomous Region.

Standing at the foot of the Giza Pyramids, the wind from the Nile sweeps across sand dunes that have stretched for thousands of years, reaching a modern museum that carries a new chapter for an ancient civilization: the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). On November 1, 2025, after more than two decades of construction and waiting, the world's largest museum dedicated to ancient Egyptian civilization officially opened its doors to the world.

An 82-year-old man can fly? Chinese runner Ding Ming has found himself at the center of admiration after sprinting to a world title and setting a new Asian record at an international tournament recently.

A joint Chinese-Egyptian archaeological team has completed the first large-scale systematic excavation of the Sekhmet Temple and its surroundings in the ancient city of Memphis, clearing most of the above-ground remains and revealing new details about the temple's structure, later reuse and the everyday life that continued around it for centuries.