When I was 10, my parents began teaching me how to grow tulips. From that moment, I dreamed of seeing tulips bloom all over the world. As I grew older, I traveled extensively, searching for an ideal place to make my dream a reality. In 2013, I received an exciting offer from Holland Flower Park in Dafeng district of Yancheng, …
More than 70 percent of China’s fishing lines and nearly 55 percent of the world’s supply come from Geshan, a small town in Dongyang city, east China’s Zhejiang Province. In the town, buildings with “fishing gear” signs can be seen everywhere, and the atmosphere around the fishing gear industry is quite strong. The local slogan is, “Wherever there is a …
At the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show held in the U.S. city of Las Vegas, the “Land Aircraft Carrier,” a modular flying car developed by Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker XPENG, made its first international debut, drawing significant attention worldwide. It is expected to be delivered to customers in 2026. Flying cars are gradually turning into a reality, presenting endless possibilities …
For Chinese across the world, the Spring Festival is a time for family reunions, festive traditions, holiday shopping and diverse cultural and tourism activities. Shopping events for festival goods centered around Chinese intangible cultural heritage (ICH) are gaining popularity across China in recent years. During a recent event in north China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, ICH inheritors demonstrated a wide …
A British girl, Lorna Mary, is celebrating her first Spring Festival in China. Through her Chinese friends, Mary has learned that the Spring Festival is one of the most significant holidays for the Chinese people, and of all the Chinese holidays, it’s the best at presenting Chinese culture. “Yi Shi Zhu Xing,” meaning food, clothing, housing and transportation, was the …
During a live-streaming session, Li Suying, the fifth-generation inheritor of Zhuang brocade in Jinlong township, Longzhou county, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was weaving brocade in front of a wooden weaving machine. Her demonstration drew a crowd of viewers to the live-steaming session, eager to purchase her handiworks for the upcoming Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year. Li’s booth …
At an embroidery workshop covering nearly 3,000 square meters, over 100 embroidery machines are neatly lined up, producing exquisite embroidered fabrics with vibrant colors and elegant styles depicting flowers, birds, fish, and insects. The workshop belongs to Wenshan Yufurong Ethnic Embroidery Co., Ltd., the largest computerized embroidery enterprise in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Workers and machines are busy fulfilling orders …
Li Jie, a skilled embroiderer from southwest China’s Yunnan Province, infuses intangible cultural heritage items such as traditional embroidery and silver ornaments with modern fashion elements, creating ethnic costumes that captivate consumers and breathe new life into traditional clothing. Born and raised in an ethnic village in Fuheng township, Yangbi Yi Autonomous County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Li developed a …
As the world’s largest ice-and-snow theme park, the ongoing 26th edition of the Harbin Ice-Snow World in Harbin, the capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, is a romantic fairy-tale world full of ice and snow sculptures. On Dec. 31, 2024, the operating hours of the park were extended until 00:30 a.m. the next day, attracting a large number of visitors …
As the new year began, a train loaded with fresh fruits and vegetables set off from China’s Yunnan province to the capital of Laos, Vientiane; in many Chinese supermarkets, Lao bananas imported by cold-chain trains via the China-Laos Railway are sold, enriching consumers’ choices. The China-Laos Railway is becoming a “golden corridor” promoting the common development of China and its …