Expo themed on Chinese railway culture kicks off in Beijing

Chinese dancers dazzle international audiences with artistic charm.

In recent years, Chinese dance drama has embarked on an international ascent, with Hong Kong often serving as the initial gateway. This vibrant city, a confluence of East and West, has proven to be an ideal springboard for Chinese cultural productions to captivate a global audience. From there, Chinese dance dramas have traversed continents, enthralling audiences with a blend of traditional storytelling and contemporary performance art.

The Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University (AADTHU) hosted a key event in Milan from Nov. 15-16, bringing together global academic leaders in art and design.

An art exhibition featuring the works of Chinese teenagers was simultaneously held Saturday on China's orbiting Tiangong space station, as well as in Beijing and Macao.

In China, there is rising interest in cultural things, with museums becoming increasingly popular.

China's rich culinary heritage continues to inspire creative cultural products. With various expressions on their fluffy faces, plush toys based on local food traditions have gained nationwide popularity recently.

Enchanted by the beauty of white Chinese porcelain, Marc Leuthold has spent the past two months creating contemporary artworks using the local clay and firing methods of Quyang, a county in Hebei province, with over a thousand years of ceramic-making history.

With ginseng, wolfberry, tangerine peel, and some other traditional Chinese medicines added inside, the aroma of ginseng tea fills the ski gear hall at a ski resort in the Changbai Mountain area.

While the service industry has played an increasingly important role in rural vitalization, tourism featuring cultural characteristics has gained the attention of visitors, boosting the incomes of villagers.

Nearly 1,000 thangka paintings have been cataloged, appraised, and scanned in high definition in the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the capital of the Xizang autonomous region, since the palace began digitizing them in early March, said the Cultural Relics Research Office of the Potala Palace Management Office. 

As the younger generation learns more of China's history, replicas of iconic relics let them take home a little piece of the past.

Filigree Mosaic art reached its peak in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 2008, Filigree Mosaic art was listed as a national-level intangible cultural heritage.

A model presents a creation during the 17th Swahili Fashion Week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dec. 6, 2024.

Traditional design and practices for building Chinese wooden arch bridges were added to UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Li Xintong's journey with Ebru, the ancient Turkish art of paper marbling, began in 2007 when she moved from the northwestern Chinese city of Xi'an to Istanbul.

For Meng Genhua, a dedicated Mongolian ethnic attire artisan, her greatest joy has stemmed from seeing her business grow from a humble 20-square-meter workshop to a thriving 500-square-meter store over the course of nearly four decades.

Models present creations during the runway show at Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week 2024 in Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 20, 2024.

The Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University (AADTHU) has dedicated its art resources and capabilities into a series of events showcasing China's artistic and design prowess across China and France. The cultural events have been held over several months to celebrate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries, and the China-France Cultural and Tourism Year.

Held every five years since 1949, the National Exhibition of Fine Arts is a glimpse of artistic developments across the country, including the work of artists based in Macao.

Henry Cheung, CEO and co-founder of high-fashion brand Team Wang Design, aims to expand the brand's intellectual properties (IPs) globally, the executive told China.org.cn during an interview about the fashion house he established with pop star Jackson Wang.