Models present creations of HEMU during the 2027 Spring/Summer Shanghai Fashion Week in east China's Shanghai, Oct. 8, 2026. The event opened at Xintiandi commercial complex here on Thursday. (Xinhua/Chen Haoming)Models present creations of HEMU during the 2027 Spring/Summer Shanghai Fashion Week in east China's Shanghai, Oct. 8, 2026. The event opened at Xintiandi commercial complex here on Thursday. (Xinhua/Chen Haoming)A model presents a creation of HEMU during the 2027 Spring/Summer Shanghai Fashion Week in east China's Shanghai, Oct. 8, 2026. The event opened at Xintiandi commercial complex here on Thursday. (Xinhua/Chen Haoming)Models present creations of HEMU during the 2027 Spring/Summer Shanghai Fashion Week in east China's Shanghai, Oct. 8, 2026. The event opened at Xintiandi commercial complex here on Thursday. (Xinhua/Chen Haoming)A model presents a creation of HEMU during the 2027 Spring/Summer Shanghai Fashion Week in east China's Shanghai, Oct. 8, 2026. The event opened at Xintiandi commercial complex here on Thursday. (Xinhua/Chen Haoming)Models present creations of HEMU during the 2027 Spring/Summer Shanghai Fashion Week in east China's Shanghai, Oct. 8, 2026. The event opened at Xintiandi commercial complex here on Thursday. (Xinhua/Chen Haoming)A model presents a creation of HEMU during the 2027 Spring/Summer Shanghai Fashion Week in east China's Shanghai, Oct. 8, 2026. The event opened at Xintiandi commercial complex here on Thursday. (Xinhua/Chen Haoming)Models present creations of HEMU during the 2027 Spring/Summer Shanghai Fashion Week in east China's Shanghai, Oct. 8, 2026. The event opened at Xintiandi commercial complex here on Thursday. (Xinhua/Chen Haoming)

China's box office during the 2026 National Day holiday topped 1.16 billion yuan (about $170 million), with daily revenue exceeding 100 million yuan for seven consecutive days, according to the China Film Administration.The seven-day holiday period recorded nearly 32 million cinema visits and 3.29

China's National Day holiday has brought a busy week to cinemas.

Initially a fan of Chinese TV series, 19-year-old Zuura Zakirova is now a student of the Chinese language.

On the morning of Oct. 1, the first day of China's National Day holiday, the Confucius cruise ship slowly pulled away from a port in Jining, east China's Shandong Province, setting off for Nanyang ancient town on the city's southern outskirts.Named after the famous ancient Chinese philosopher

While tourism in China has traditionally been associated with breathtaking landscapes and photo opportunities, Wang Xin (pseudonym) opted for a different kind of National Day holiday this year: watching tennis.Well before the vacation she had purchased tickets for the Jingshan Tennis Open in

October 7 marks the third year since the introduction of Xi Jinping's Thought on Culture. In recent years, Chinese cultural products have taken the global stage by storm, reflecting the growing vitality of China's cultural industries and the expanding reach of its soft power.

Led by the strong performance of domestic films, China's National Day holiday box office crossed the 1-billion-yuan mark (around $149.2 million) on October 6, the second last day of the weeklong holiday season.

The Chinese anti-war film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East will represent the Chinese mainland in the Best International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards, the film's official Weibo account announced on Wednesday.

Actor and singer Nicky Wu from the island of Taiwan has drawn widespread attention after posting a video of himself waving the Chinese national flag at Tiananmen Square in Beijing to celebrate China's National Day.

The Nobel Prize in physics will be announced Tuesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.Last year, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements

For years, Yang Liangen saw strangers as a threat.After a series of break-in attempts at a 900-year-old temple in north China's Shanxi Province, Yang moved into the compound in 1997, sleeping behind its gates and guarding its rare sculptures and wooden structures.

With music filling the National Mall and the US Capitol behind the stage, Chinese and American artists gathered on Saturday for "Future Resonance — ShanghaiEye Night" people-to-people exchange events.

Chinese Huangmei Opera artists Han Zaifen (R) and Chen Bangliang perform Huangmei Opera: The Lady Consort Prince during "Future Resonance -- ShanghaiEye Night" in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Oct. 3, 2026.

2026 Nuit Blanche event held in Toronto, Canada