Homestays offering authentic cultural experiences are becoming a new highlight in China’s cultural and tourism industries, with bookings seeing remarkable growth. Many tourists believe that homestays in county-level regions offer a glimpse into local cultures. An increasing number of tourists like to live in homestays in county-level regions to experience a different lifestyle. According to Chinese homestay booking platform Xiaozhu.com, …

Recently, travel videos posted by an Irish couple on the social media account “Two Mad Explorers” went viral online. These trending videos relate to the couple’s travel stories in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province, highlighting their experiences with the high-speed railway, the Southern Song Imperial Street, and classic dishes like sweet lotus root with sticky rice. Their travel experiences reflect …

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Takeo Akiba, secretary general of Japan’s National Security Secretariat, held consultations under the China-Japan high-level political dialogue mechanism in Beijing on Monday. The two sides reiterated that they will abide by the principles and consensus set out in the four political documents between China and Japan and commit to comprehensively advancing the strategic relationship …

In Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal state, South Sudan, stands a blue and white brick-and-concrete structure. This is a police station named after a Chinese peacekeeping police officer – Dongxing. In 2008, Sun Dongxing was sent to Wau on a United Nations peacekeeping mission. The local police station was dilapidated and unusable. Responding to the pleas of local officials, he …

“Carrying forward the Shanghai Spirit: SCO in Action.” This is a slogan raised by China after it took the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) for 2024-2025 in July this year. It clearly demonstrates that the SCO is not about high-sounding rhetoric, but about concrete action. China has fully started the work as the rotating presidency. It will …

The BRICS countries now account for about 30 percent of the global GDP, nearly half the global population, and one-fifth of global trade after the group’s expansion from five members to 10 in January. The enlargement of BRICS is “a major milestone” in its history and “a landmark event” in the evolution of the international situation, said Chinese President Xi …

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Russia’s Kazan on Tuesday for the 16th BRICS Summit. Russian officials greeted Xi at the airport. Guards of honor lined up on both sides of a red carpet to salute the Chinese leader, and Russian youths dressed in national costumes welcomed him with traditional courtesy. A Russian fighter jet was seen escorting Xi’s plane. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China and Russia have found the right way for neighboring major countries to get along with each other, which is based on non-alliance, non-confrontation and not targeting any third party. In his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Xi said China-Russia relations have come a long way and made a series of …

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged the country’s state-level economic and technological development zones to continuously stimulate innovation vitality and endogenous momentum and promote high-standard opening up for in-depth reform and high-quality development. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in a recent instruction on …

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that China and the U.S. should shoulder the responsibilities of major powers and jointly address global challenges to achieve mutual wins as he met with the head of a U.S.-based political risk consultancy. This is in the interest of both countries’ peoples and is the shared expectation of nations worldwide, Wang, also …