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A rich variety of Spring Festival celebrations await people in the United Kingdom wanting to mark the start of the Year of the Snake.
Gaoqiao Town, located in east China's Jiangsu Province, is home to nearly 400 snow boot manufacturers and more than 800 e-commerce businesses, generating an annual output value of over 2.2 billion yuan ($300 million).
The rich and flavorful cuisine of Shengyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, has attracted people worldwide. The city looks forward to your visit and wishes you a happy Spring Festival!
The first batch of personnel for 9th Asian Winter Games has arrived at Taiping International Airport in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province ahead of the official start of the games, according to the entry-exit border inspection authority on Sunday.
South China's Haikou Customs announced on Sunday that the cdf Haikou international duty-free shopping complex in Hainan Province successfully carried out China's first regular customs-supervised low-altitude drone delivery of duty-free goods for island departures.
As the Chinese New Year becomes a global celebration, the festive spirit travels across oceans along with goods from Yiwu, a vibrant city. The AI-composed track "Treasures in Yiwu New Year" is now online. Join us to experience the global flavor of the New Year!
“Happy Spring Festival in Mampukuji Temple,” an event celebrating the Chinese New Year, kicked off on Saturday in Kyoto, offering a unique cultural experience to the Japanese people.
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek topped the Apple App Store's free downloads in both China and the U.S. on Monday, outpacing ChatGPT in free downloads in the U.S.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed Spring Festival, social practices of the Chinese people in celebration of the traditional new year, on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on Dec. 4, 2024.
One of the cores of the Spring Festival is “being together,” said Richard Trappl, an Austrian sinologist and former director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna, in the latest W.E. Talk. “Regarding international issues, I believe we need to be highly united. We should not be divided, try to avoid misunderstandings, and understand each other better,” he said.
"A conductor is like a switch of an orchestra," said Li Xincao, an accomplished conductor, who is also the president of the China Conservatory of Music.
China's manufacturing sector has witnessed a moderation in January, as the mass exodus of employees returned to their home regions for the upcoming Spring Festival holiday.
As the world's hub for small commodities, east China’s Yiwu city is filled with international traders doing business globally. With Spring Festival around the corner, the festive atmosphere is growing stronger here, and foreigners are embracing local customs—hitting the markets, preparing for the holiday, buying flowers, and sprucing up their homes. Let's take a look at what's on their Chinese New Year shopping lists!
Lighting fireworks to ward off evil spirits and pray for peace is a key Chinese New Year tradition. Liuyang City, in central China's Hunan Province, is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Fireworks.” With a history spanning more than 1,400 years, its fireworks are exported to over 100 countries worldwide. Noticeably, two out of three fireworks that illuminate the sky originate from Liuyang. From the Beijing Olympics to the Qatar World Cup, from daytime fireworks in Los Angeles to Dubai’s New Year display, Liuyang’s fireworks dazzle the world with its brilliance.
A key suspect surnamed Yan, who is involved in multiple cases of Chinese citizens recently being deceived to the Thailand-Myanmar border was apprehended and brought back to China on Saturday evening.
China has extended its vehicle trade-in policy for 2025, a move experts anticipate will yield a stronger effect than in 2024, leading to a potential surge in the consumption of automobiles in the world's largest vehicle market.
Why was the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, selected as a UNESCSO intangible cultural heritage? What cultural values does it embody, and what inspiration does it bring to the world? How can we add more global appeal to the “Chinese New Year”? Richard Trappl, an Austrian sinologist and former director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna, and Gao Wei, head of the Beijing Folklore Society and a member of the expert committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Beijing shared their views in the latest W.E. Talk program.
The Year of the Snake will will start on Jan. 29, 2025, marking the first Chinese Spring Festival since its inscription on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
With 166 members, the global trade body has made major contributions to the strength and stability of global trade and economy over the past 30 years.
After a hiatus of 14 months, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao captivated a passionate crowd of patrons and officials at the zoo as they made their public debut on Friday morning.
The China Coast Guard will strengthen patrols jointly carried out by vessels, patrol aircraft and shipborne helicopters in the future to improve its ability to safeguard national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights.
Premier Li Qiang reiterated on Sunday China's commitment to upholding openness and inclusiveness to enhance international exchanges in various fields in order to jointly promote peace and development.
The importance of using artificial intelligence in a human-centered way for international security was the topic at a recurring U.S.-China dialogue.
China and the United States have displayed their willingness to efficiently manage bilateral relations and work on differences, observers said after Foreign Minister Wang Yi and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a phone conversation on Friday.
Various lanterns, festive Chinese New Year paintings, and layered displays of candies and pastries... The Chinese New Year goods at Phnom Penh’s Orussey market in Cambodia have become a dazzling sight.
Gao Wei, head of the Beijing Folklore Society and a member of the expert committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Beijing, stated in the latest W.E. Talk some countries have designated the Chinese Spring Festival as a local legal holiday and have their own ways of celebration, which indicating that the Spring Festival has some inherent cultural values that are widely recognized.
What does the Spring Festival mean? In the eyes of Richard Trappl, an Austrian sinologist and former director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna, the Spring Festival means no matter how far apart people are, they will embark on the journey back home. He said that we live in an era of cultural diversity and that Spring Festival enables people from different cultural backgrounds to understand each other. It reminds us that we should pay more attention to families and friends. (Zhang Dongfang)
The level of respiratory infectious diseases' spread in China has begun declining, a national viral disease researcher said during a news conference on Sunday.
China's non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) surged 10.5 percent year-on-year to $143.85 billion in 2024, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce released on Sunday.
Leading Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has successively released two cost-effective open source models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, quickly becoming the talk of Silicon Valley.
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