A total of 48 hand-made dragons participated in the Gunlong Festival on Thursday. The folk festival, which has a history of more than 600 years, is a local tradition to wish for good fortunes in the new year.
The floral headdress,a traditional symbol of Xunpu women, is called Zanhuawei in Quanzhou, a port city known as one of the starting points of the ancient maritime silk road.
The series contains 10 sets of egg carvings. Among them, "Year of the Loong (Dragon) 2024" adopted the intaglio carving technique, using four eggshells to combine the image of the traditional Chinese dragon with the number 2024.
Two people were killed and three others missing after a ship hit a bridge and caused the bridge to fracture on Thursday morning in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, rescuers said.
China Wildlife Conservation Association reached an agreement with the Madrid Zoo in Spain and the San Diego Zoo in the United States respectively on a new round of international conservation research on giant pandas.
The Long March 8 Y-3 carrier rocket was shipped to the launch center for the Queqiao-2, or Magpie Bridge-2 launch mission, on Thursday for final assembly tests.
A Long March 8 Y-3 carrier rocket was shipped to Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province on Thursday, according to the China National Space Administration.
Fifty new vehicles left the Torugart Port in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region for Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday.
China welcomes the World Bank’s appointment of Zhang Wencai, Vice President of the Export-Import Bank of China, as the managing director and World Bank Group Chief Administrative Officer, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Wednesday at a press conference.
Two major ship locks on the Yangtze River, the north line ship locks of the Three Gorges Dam and the Gezhouba No. 1 ship lock, will remain closed for 45 days and 40 days respectively.
Colorful lanterns are set up at a park to greet the upcoming Lantern Festival in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Feb. 21, 2024.
Keepers at the park prepared balls of glutinous rice with fruit and vegetables as a Lantern Festival dessert for animals on Wednesday.
Cherry blossoms are in full bloom, creating an oil painting-like landscape in Longyan, east China's Fujian Province, Feb. 20, 2024.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, due to his schedule, could not attend the G20 meeting and has designated Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu to represent China at the meeting, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday at a press conference in Beijing.
Three giant pandas, Tian Bao, and twins Bao Di, Bao Mei, born at Belgium's Pairi Daiza zoo, will return to China this year, the zoo announced on Tuesday.
Beijing received the first snow of the Year of the Dragon on Tuesday. China's National Meteorological Center on Tuesday renewed an orange alert, the second-highest in four-tier weather warning system, for cold waves in various regions.
Seventy-eight dragons took part in the celebration on Tuesday. Maolong Festival, a folk activity for people of the Gelao ethnic group to celebrate the Spring Festival and lantern festival, is listed as one of the national intangible cultural heritages in 2006.
An ancient technique of salt production dating back to 1,000 years ago is well-preserved in Xizang and local people follow a traditional salt harvesting method by collecting brines from salt mines and ponds and evaporating them in the sun until crystallization.
A flock of bohemian waxwings rest on branches of a tree in Tekes County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning held a regular news briefing in Beijing on Tuesday, making some remarks about foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to Spain after a reporter asked her to comment.
Statistics reveal that China's economic vitality thrived during the Spring Festival of Chinese Year of the Dragon, boosting global confidence and outlook for 2024 while shattering several holiday records.
Argentine football star Lionel Messi explained his absence during a match two weeks ago in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, on Monday.
China's Tibet Airlines signed an order for 40 C919 passenger jetliners and 10 ARJ21 regional jets for high-altitude plateaus with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC) during the Singapore Airshow on Tuesday, according to COMAC.
"Zhalong dance" is a form of dragon dance performed amid fireworks by the Miao ethnic group and listed as an intangible cultural heritage of Guizhou Province in 2006.
Lanterns are displayed to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Xiongan New Area, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 19, 2024.
Two of China's independently-developed large amphibious aircraft AG600M, codenamed Kunlong, completed their cold-weather test flights at Dongshan airport in Hailar, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
During the eight-day Spring Festival holiday, Chinese tourists took 474 million domestic trips, an increase of 34.3 percent compared to the previous year, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China on Sunday.
Aerial view of spring scenery of Daye lake bed in Huangshi, central China's Hubei Province.
C919 will perform flight demonstrations at the Singapore Airshow 2024, which lasts from Feb. 20 to Feb. 25.