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Chinese long jumper sets world season's best of 8.36m

Chinese long jumper Wang Jianan leaped to 8.36 meters in the men's event, the world's best performance this season, on the first day of China's national athletics champ

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Giving lacquerware a new shine

Huang Cailiang, an officially recognized inheritor of making gold-painted lacquerware, has practiced the craft for more than four decades. He now spends more time on training students to cultivat

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CGTN Exclusive: How drones are saving farmers

02:55 Every year, roughly 200,000 people die from pesticide poisoning across the world, with a large number of them falling prey to direct spraying. The United Nations

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Exhibition in Hangzhou memorizes a lyric humanistic

A Rainy Day [Photo provided to China Daily] Late writer, essayist and dramatist Wang Zengqi once said, "My paintings, they are like a cloud over a hill." Wang is often hailed as a "lyric humani

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China's summer holiday travel boosts domestic tourism

02:52 Recovery in China's domestic tourism sector is picking up pace thanks to the summer holiday travel rush.Shanghai students are back on campus and the World Expo Museum is finally

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China's July industrial profits up, auto sector sees growth

A production line at a Geely plant in Zhejiang Province, China, July 29, 2020. /VCG Profits growth of China's major industrial firms continued to accelerate in July, totaling 589.5 billion yua

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Piano man, 60, hits the high notes online

When Yang Su's piano rendition of Moscow Nights was posted by a friend on short video platform Douyin in November 2017, nobody expected that it would restart the 60-year-old man's musical care

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Cinema worker recounts long wait for reopening and thrill of return

Zhang Huibo watches the screen from the projection room at Wandi Cinema in Lishui, Zhejiang Province. /courtesy of Zhang HuiboIt was the midnight of July 20. Zhang Huib

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China renews blue alert for Typhoon Bavi

China's national observatory on Sunday renewed a blue alert for Typhoon Bavi, which is expected to bring gales to south and southeast China. The typhoon, the eighth of

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Chinese mainland reports no new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases

Tourists stroll in the Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on Aug. 22, 2020. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- No n

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Alibaba's Q2 revenue jumps 34% amid surge in online shopping

Alibaba's headquarter in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. /VCG China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. on Thursday said its revenue jumped 34 percent year on year in the first q

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Cirque du Soleil's China show celebrates 1-year anniversary

Cirque du Soleil's X: The Land of Fantasy, a resident show in Hangzhou, the capital city of east China's Zhejiang province, celebrated its one-year anniversary after it resumed performances in

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China-Europe freight trains hit record highs for 5 months amid pandemic: media

A China-Europe freight train carrying medical supplies bound for Madrid of Spain departs from the city of Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang Province, June 5, 2020. (Photo by Lyu Bin/Xinhua)According to the

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China takes creative measures to reduce food wastage

A "Clean Plate Campaign" has been launched across China as the country steps up measures to reduce wastage of food.In response to the nationwide campaign, catering serv

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Chinese mainland reports 17 new imported COVID-19 cases

Chinese mainland reported 17 new imported COVID-19 cases Tuesday, bringing the total number of imported cases to 2,339, the National Health Commission said Wednesday.

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China's college graduates find tough job market amid COVID-19

Anhui University of Science and Technology holds a job fair, Anhui Province, China, June 16, 2020. /VCGThe abrupt coronavirus outbreak in January disrupted Kang Xiaolai

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China's Geely Automobile first-half profit drops 43%

China's Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd said on Monday first-half net profit fell 43 percent, as the coronavirus outbreak slammed the brakes on auto sales in the world's biggest market.Geely, China's h