In the early morning, before the opening of the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, the shutters roll up one by one in the basement of the Wangfu Century Building, about 800 meters from Donghuamen of the Palace Museum. Hundreds of intricately designed traditional costumes and makeup tools in the shops await customers eager to try traditional Chinese styling.
The sun beat down on the ancient stones of Beijing's Beihai Park, but Ma Zhixue barely noticed the heat.
Shopping malls, restaurants and sports venues in Beijing have remained packed with visitors during the ongoing National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, representing a microcosm of the strong consumer demand nationwide.
Zhangzhou Pien Tze Huang Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, a time-honored company that produces one of China's most renowned herbal formulas, has continued to diversify its product portfolio and expand its business scope.
This year's National Day Golden Week holiday, led to notable increases in the number of visitors in Hong Kong — boosting local retail, catering and hospitality sectors, and even benefiting the city's banking business.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional celebration of appreciating the full moon and family reunions. In ancient times, its festive mood was captured in poetry and art.
Chu culture, which traces back to the State of Chu during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), is known for its unique imagination and romantic charm.
In a new phenomenon, many tourists are taking bullet trains to smaller cities in China to catch much cheaper flights for their vacations abroad
Saulebek Kabylbekov is a 66-year-old Kazakh ophthalmologist at Daqing Ophthalmology Hospital who can communicate fluently with patients in a northeastern Chinese dialect.
In Zhuang villages, residents gathered in courtyards chatting leisurely; during Tibetan New Year celebrations, people in colorful costumes weaving through the lively crowds; in houses, chickens pecking insects and grains from the ground, cats and dogs lying by doorsteps, and golden corn and fresh fruits and vegetables drying on rooftops.
It was a freezing, moonless night on Tibetan New Year's Eve in 1954 when 7-year-old Tseyang sat on her father's shoulders on a muddy path in Shigatse of the Xizang autonomous region.
For more than a decade, Dradul has worked as a guardian of a wetland near Mapam Yumco Lake, which, nestled at an altitude of over 4,500 meters in Burang county of Ngari prefecture, Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, is the world's highest freshwater lake.