The 2026 Conference on Hongshan Culture is being held in Chaoyang, Liaoning from August 5 to 6, bringing together renowned experts and scholars from China and abroad. Before the conference, experts and scholars visited sites including the Niuheliang Site Museum, Chaoyang Museum, and Chaoyang Bird Fossil National Geological Park to gain an in-depth understanding of the Hongshan culture. Experts noted that Hongshan culture has had a significant influence on the world.
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.
The characters flowing from Yang Yuehong's brush looked familiar -- but few visitors around him could read them.
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.
Xihaigu takes its name from three counties in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region: Xiji, Haiyuan, and Guyuan, areas long considered among China's harshest environments. Yet today, this land has produced a large community of writers, and literature has become as vital as a staple crop for local people. This two-part series focuses on regional writers and their achievements. Expanding from individual stories to the broader landscape, this second installment looks beyond Xihaigu, heading south to explore how a "spiritual harvest" of literature has flourished in places like Zhaotong in Southwest China's Yunnan Province.
A small porcelain cup hits the floor. Instead of shattering, it bounces, making a dull but playful sound. Though not a historic artifact in Jingdezhen's newly inscribed World Heritage property, the cup embodies the innovative spirit that still thrives in this ancient porcelain city in east China's Jiangxi Province.
An AI-powered smart blackboard unveiled by a Chinese company at the 2026 World AI Conference has gone viral on overseas social media as it instantly generates graphs from handwritten equations and demonstrates other state-of-the-art capabilities. Many overseas self-media vloggers have hailed the technology, calling it “the future of education.”
More than 2,500 years ago, Confucius espoused the philosophy that "One should never tire of refining his food, nor of mincing his meat with care." Today, that ancient ethos comes alive in Qufu, the sage's hometown, where Italian sinologist Famularo Dario steps into the Jiurutang restaurant to meet Kong Fancheng, a bearer of the intangible cultural heritage of Kong-family Cuisine. Over a meticulously prepared banquet, the young scholar savors a living embodiment of Confucian culture.
Chinese scientist Wang Jinsong has become the first Chinese recipient of the William Nordberg Medal, a major international award recognizing distinguished contributions to the application of space science.
Temperatures have been climbing across China in recent days, from north to south and from east to west, with red and orange heat warnings issued one after another, according to the National Meteorological Center. The summer heat is not only being felt by people. At Yongle Palace in Ruicheng county, North China's Shanxi Province, first built during the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), conservation specialist Bai Yongqin keeps a close watch on a different set of numbers - tiny shifts in temperature and humidity that could quietly affect the centuries-old murals and ancient structures he has spent decades protecting.
