The re-release of Marvel's Avengers: Endgame with some added scenes, billed in China as Avengers Endgame: Encore, was leading China's Mid-Autumn Festival holiday box office, helping push total ticket sales for the three-day holidays above 270 million yuan ($40.2 million) and warming up the country's movie market ahead of the longer National Day holidays.
At 32, Wang Shun knows that the next breakthrough in his swimming career may not come from doing more of what he has already been doing for years, but from finding the remaining 5 percent that he has yet to explore. "This is my fifth Asian Games journey, and it has come to a satisfying conclusion," Wang told the Global Times in an interview after finishing the swimming competition. "From my first one at 16 to now at 32, I have gone through 16 years of Asian Games."
As combine harvesters bring the autumn harvest to a close across central China's Hubei Province, local farmer Fu Pengcheng is preparing his 1,000 mu (66.7 hectares) of farmland for winter wheat rotation, reassured by stable fertilizer supplies heading into the upcoming planting season.
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.
Out at sea, Chinese and US university students explored the ocean, took part in scientific and cultural activities and, at one point, sat down to negotiate a global environmental problem.
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 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.
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 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.
