Film crews may be thinning out at Hengdian World Studios, often dubbed China's Hollywood, but its sets are finding a new audience: tourists eager to star in their own short dramas. During the National Day holidays, visitors to the studio complex in Hengdian, East China's Zhejiang Province - the country's largest film and television production base - paid hundreds of yuan to star in their own vertical short drama, complete with costumes, makeup, direction and filming. The package also included admission to the scenic area, where visitors could step onto film sets featuring replicas of traditional Chinese palaces and other period architecture.
China's first fully AI-generated feature film to receive a theatrical release permit is set to hit cinemas on Friday, a trial run for an industry wrestling with how to embrace new technology without losing moviegoers.
China will formulate a law on cultural heritage protection to strengthen legal safeguards for various types of cultural heritage, including historic and cultural districts, according to a press conference held by the State Council Information Office in Beijing on Tuesday.
China's Central Archives opened more than 5,000 Long March-related archival items to the public on Monday to mark the 90th anniversary of the Red Army's Long March victory, offering firsthand accounts of key battles, strategic decisions and solidarity between soldiers and civilians.
China has successfully completed a near-operational application test of its domestically developed satellite internet system along an Arctic shipping route, achieving breakthroughs in cross-regional communications, remote medical consultations and real-time scientific data transmission, according to information China's Ministry of Natural Resources provided to the Global Times on Monday.
Recently, Shandong issued the Action Plan of Shandong Province for Empowering the In-depth Integration of Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship through “Scenarios + Capital”, aiming to facilitate the precise matching between scenario supply and demand, and the efficient linkage of factor resources such as capital and talent.
Ethiopia's reigning Olympic marathon champion Tamirat Tola won the 2026 Beijing Marathon on Sunday in 2:03:10, setting a course record and the fastest time ever recorded at a marathon held in China. The 35-year-old's performance at the Beijing Marathon, which also hosted the National Marathon Championships, beat the previous course record of 2:07:06 by almost four minutes.
An international collaborative study has recently confirmed the world’s first juvenile fossil of Huphsuchus, an extinct genus of small marine reptiles dating back approximately 247 million years, discovered in Yuan’an county, Central China’s Hubei Province, the Global Times learned from the Hubei Institute of Geosciences, Hubei Geological Bureau, on Sunday.
Chinese short-video platforms have removed thousands of AI-generated videos pairing Sun Wukong, the Monkey King from Journey to the West, with Lin Daiyu, the female lead of Dream of the Red Chamber, after a viral crossover trend triggered debate over the boundaries of reworking classical literature.
Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin said artificial intelligence (AI) may carry Earth's civilization beyond humanity, even if that future does not belong to humans, as he marked 20 years since The Three-Body Problem began serialization.
