China marks 2,576th anniversary of Confucius' birth

Six significant archaeological sites in China were named the top new discoveries in 2024, announced Wednesday at an annual forum hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Paddy-field remains dating back over 8,000 years have been discovered in central China's Hunan Province, according to the provincial cultural relics and archaeology research institute.

More than 65 years after its discovery, the Erlitou site in the heart of the Central China Plains, continues to yield new clues about the grand picture of early-stage Chinese civilization.

"Mirror to the Future: Chinese Basic Art Education Literature Exhibition (1904-2024)" opened at The First Historical Archives of China in Beijing on Wednesday.

A lecture series hosted by the Chinese Archaeological Museum has offered a unique window into major archaeological discoveries and the latest research on the origins and early development of Chinese civilization.

An ongoing exhibition at the Shanghai Museum commemorates the life and journey of Marco Polo (1254-1324), one of the most celebrated travelers from the West to China.

Under the theme of "exchanges and mutual learning for a new model of human progress," the Second Liangzhu Forum being held in Hangzhou, the capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, from Monday to Wednesday, has gathered more than 300 Chinese and foreign cultural officials, diplomats, scholars, writers, archaeologists and musicians from more than 60 countries and regions to tap the rich cultural resources of Liangzhu further.

More than 90,000 stone artifacts, dating back to the Neolithic period more than 5,000 years ago, have been unearthed in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, according to local sources.

A museum showing cultural relics dating back 3,900 to 4,300 years opened to the public Tuesday in Shanxi Province.

The 2024 Silk Road Rediscovery Tour of Beijing kicked off in the capital city of China on the evening of October 21.

A tomb dating back approximately 5,000 years, presumed to be the grave of a prehistoric king, has been discovered at a ruins site in central China's Henan Province, with over 350 artifacts unearthed to date.

Chinese archaeologists recently pinpointed the origin of the mysterious Jianjiapo tomb site in the east Tianshan region in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.