China's 2026 summer movie season is heating up, with box office receipts and audience turnout hitting record highs.As of Thursday, China's total 2026 box office revenue (including presales) had surpassed 26.5 billion yuan (about $3.9 billion), with more than 670 million admissions

Festival of Folk Arts held in Budapest, Hungary,

In Beijing, a young inheritor of Chinese shadow puppetry is bringing the hit game franchise Plants vs. Zombies to the stage, shining a new light on traditional arts with pop culture. (Produced by Wang Shuyi)

In Jingdezhen, China's renowned "porcelain capital," Singaporean ceramic artist Vanessa Sng discovered that a ceramics studio could stay open through the night.

Keqiutou Site Museum, a branch of the Chinese Archaeological Museum, is built around the Keqiutou ruins in Pingtan, southeast China's Fujian Province. It serves as an important platform for the study and presentation of Austronesian culture and for the display of the prehistoric culture of Pingtan.

Practice makes perfect! Watch young Sichuan Opera artist Chu Hanqing master the intricate chair acrobatic technique, executing every movement with precision and effortless grace after countless repetitions. (Produced by Xie Runjia and intern Zhao Wenchang)

As the summer tourism season heats up, Fenghuang County in central China's Hunan Province is seeing a surge in inbound tourism, with increasing numbers of domestic and international visitors flocking to the ancient town.To further enrich its nighttime tourism offerings, Fenghuang has upgraded its

The Chinese animated comedy All Wishes Come True! hit cinemas in Hong Kong and Macao on August 20, with a Cantonese-dubbed version also being released.Rather than retelling the well-known legend of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, All Wishes Come True! imagines what happened before they became

A creative netizen crafted an intricate model of the Great Wall and dragons using puffed rice sticks, turning an everyday snack into amazing artwork. (Produced by Li Zhuoman and intern Zhao Wenchang)

An exhibition titled "Harmony Creates Beauty: An Art Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Civilization" opened on Tuesday at the National History Museum of the Kyrgyz Republic in the country's capital.

Wang Jibing delivers meals by day and writes poetry in the gaps between deliveries. In July 2026, he became the first delivery rider to win the poetry category of the ninth Lu Xun Literature Prize — one of China's most prestigious literary honors — for his collection Low Flight. In this episode of Rui Sight, we sit down with the man known as the delivery rider poet to talk about literature, fate and what it takes to chase a dream without losing sight of the life in front of you.

A branch campus of China's Liaoning Normal University was inaugurated Monday in the Uzbek city of Khiva.

People visit the 11th Guizhou (Zunyi) International Chili Expo in Zunyi City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Aug. 18, 2026.The expo kicked off here on Tuesday, drawing more than 90 enterprises across the country for chili trade and technical cooperation. (Xinhua/Tao Liang)An exhibitor selects

In Dazuo Village on Fujian's coast, the traditional blue-and-black attire of Hui'an women was once seen as old-fashioned. Today, it has become a tourism asset, helping draw more than 200,000 visitors a year and generating more than 3 million yuan ($440,000) in additional income for local