Storytelling is an art for a select few in Nagqu who ensure the many adventures of the Tibetan hero King Gesar will never be forgotten.
China Daily reporting team returns with new appreciation of life in Dongxiang county of rural Gansu province.
Dogs wait before a participating in a competitive match in Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 4, 2011.
Flying into Dali, Yunnan province, on a bright summer morning was a magical experience. The plane banked around Erhai Lake as the sun picked out the small city perched on its banks.
In the early decades of the founding of New China, the portrait image of Chairman Mao Zedong on Tian'anmen Rostrum was changed eight times.
In some scenic spots, with steep mountainous terrain, walkways are placed along the cliff face to allow tourists a better view. These walkways are securely positioned by specialist workers with a head for heights.
Three scientists who unlocked key elements of how the body's immune system works won the 2011 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday.
The death toll in the floods caused by Nesat rose to four on Sunday in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, as the typhoon continued to wreak havoc, local authorities said on Sunday.
The 8th Beijing Twins Festival, started on Oct 2 in Honglingji Park in Beijing city, featured various activities and attracted about 600 couples of twins. The twins will show their talents in contests, parade in dresses, participate in sports games, join hands with parents in interaction games.
Waiters compete in the annual Waiters Race, in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, Oct 2, 2011. About 450 waiters took part in the competition.
Micro-blogging has been growing rapidly, dwarfing the many other forms of social networking that came into being only three or four years ago.