In the Ewenki ethnic group’s culture, “sunflower” handicrafts made from cowhide and sheepskin are common household decorations. The leather in the center symbolizes the sun, while the surrounding fur represents sunlight, symbolizing warmth and auspiciousness. Uran, an Ewenki herdswoman from Ewenki Autonomous Banner, Hulunbuir city, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, founded her brand, Sun Girl, in 2010 with a …

Goose liver, or foie gras, a delicacy often associated with France, has become a specialty of Linqu county, Weifang city, east China’s Shandong Province. The county processes 5 million Landes geese annually, producing 5,000 tonnes of goose liver. Linqu supplies goose livers to premium hotels and restaurants in over 30 Chinese provinces and cities. They also reach dining tables in …

Located in southeast China’s Fujian province, Quanzhou is one of the most important Chinese ports along the historic Maritime Silk Road. “Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China” was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List on July 25, 2021, becoming China’s 56th UNESCO World Heritage Site. The serial property encompasses 22 sites of administrative buildings and structures, religious …

ISLAMABAD: Local and international firms have announced an investment of $5 billion during the next three years in Pakistan’s oil & gas exploration and production (E&P) sector. The announcement was made in a meeting presided over by Prime Minis­ter Shehbaz Sharif at PM House on Saturday. A delegation of companies from the oil and gas exploration and production sector informed …

Bound together by mountains and rivers and common interests, China and Kazakhstan are good neighbors, good friends and good partners. For thousands of years, the two peoples have had amicable ties, jointly writing an epic of east-west interactions along the ancient Silk Road. In July this year, the 24th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai …

With China and Kazakhstan making more solid progress in Belt and Road cooperation, both sides are writing new chapters in cultural and people-to-people exchanges. Join People’s Daily Online to discover a multi-faceted framework of people-to-people exchanges in areas including culture, art, education, and health between the two countries and explore how different civilizations live together in harmony. Belt and Road …

People’s Daily and Kazakh media outlets held a sharing session to present the results of their collaborative coverage of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation between China and Kazakhstan on June 29 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The sharing session was attended by Sarybaev Galiaskar Tulendinovich and Alisher Satvaldiyev, deputies of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Xu Lijing, deputy editor-in-chief of …

A filming crew from People’s Daily Online recently visited Kazakhstan to interview Chinese Ambassador Zhang Xiao about the future of China-Kazakhstan relations. The interview, part of the media organization’s “Cultural Silk Road” series, covered topics such as Belt and Road cooperation, intercultural exchanges, and mutual learning among civilizations. Zhang said that China and Kazakhstan are friendly neighbors connected by mountains …

Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, hosted a ceremony on June 29 to call for submissions for the second Silk Road Global News Awards (SRGNA), an event aimed at promoting cooperation among media outlets from countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The ceremony was part of a sharing session on the results of joint coverage of high-quality cooperation under the …

Various roadside concerts have been held in Guiyang, the capital city of southwest China’s Guizhou Province, attracting a lot of tourists and local residents to the performances and to sing together on the bustling streets. The roadside concerts, without tickets or fences, have received great affection since they were first held in 2023. A total of 102 roadside concerts were …