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From historic districts to traditional villages, #China is stepping up efforts to safeguard its cultural heritage. A new #law and the country's first dedicated five-year plan for cultural #heritage protection aim to preserve not only individual relics, but also the living fabric of #history and #culture. https://t.co/2VdcmmzDFd

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In Hengdian, China's "#Hollywood," tourists are stepping out of the audience and onto the set. For a few hundred yuan, they can don imperial costumes, deliver iconic lines from hit TV dramas and star in their own short dramas. https://t.co/nNLkCktnrS

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Ancient #DNA from 7 individuals at sites in Beijing and Hebei Province suggests early millet farmers in northern #China largely originated locally, with genetic continuity spanning more than 3,000 years and a shift toward millet-rich diets, according to research published in the journal #ScienceAdvances.
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In China, you can challenge Li Bai to a poetry duel or joke with Tang Monk — as scenic-spot theme characters go viral, one town is offering salaries of up to $ million a year to recruit them.
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The #Liangzhu civilization in the lower Yangtze River basin offers important evidence of the emergence of early states in China. Archaeological findings reveal a society marked by social hierarchy, specialized production and large-scale water management more than 5,000 years ago.
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Make money from your face – or lose control of it? Licensing your facial likenesses for AI-generated videos is emerging as a new side hustle. But the potential payout may be only part of the story. #AI
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AI girl group BABYQUEEN has sparked widespread online discussion after its virtual member Mity announced a pregnancy, with the creator later revealing the fictional reason behind the announcement.
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The death of a 24-year-old Chinese #mukbang #influencer with 1.23 million followers, just three days after her final eating video, has sparked widespread debate over the potentially life-threatening health risks of extreme eating and self-induced vomiting, as experts warn that potassium supplements are no substitute for proper medical care.
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BABYQUEEN, an AI virtual girl group made by Chinese #Kpop lovers, posted an announcement on October 12 sharing the “happy news,”, which sparked controversy on Chinese social media. The creator later explained that juggling multiple AI characters at once had become too much pressure, and the team started thinking about cutting down on characters.

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Indoor fitness competition #HYROX announced on Wednesday that its #Shanghai event would be postponed because of unforeseen problems with venue arrangements. The indoor hybrid fitness endurance race had previously faced attention after a competitor experienced a bowel incident mid-race at HYROX #Beijing. https://t.co/9slvejhH9U

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Themed “Earth as Home” and running from August to the end of October, the 2026 #Shanghai Writing Program brings nine international #writers together for #literary exchanges and cultural exploration, inspiring fresh perspectives on contemporary Chinese #literature and new creative experiments.
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The British Council (BC), which administers #IELTS tests, announced in a statement on Tuesday that it would arrange two additional days of free test sessions in the Chinese mainland for affected candidates after computer-delivered IELTS exams scheduled for Saturday and Sunday were canceled due to technical issues.
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Could the #MonkeyKing really fall in love with the ever-melancholy Lin Daiyu? Chinese short-video platforms Douyin, WeChat and Kuaishou have removed thousands of #AI-generated videos that paired #SunWukong, the Monkey King from Chinese classics Journey to the West, with Lin Daiyu, the female lead of Dream of the Red Chamber, as “lovers” after the crossover mashups turned two canonical characters into an internet sensation.
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A Chinese man has been jailed for 12 years after teaching himself tomb-raiding techniques from popular online novels and looting ancient graves of bronze artifacts. China’s top court released the case as a warning: “#Fiction is not a crime manual.” #China
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#GTExclusive: China’s tennis ace Zheng Qinwen is “hungry for more.” After becoming the first Chinese player to win the #WTA 1000 #ChinaOpen women’s singles title, Zheng told the Global Times that the triumph is just the first step toward realizing her potential and she found “my fire” back. #QueenWen https://t.co/h33L40nYQO

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#China's 2026 National Day #boxoffice hit 1.165 billion yuan ($173.8 million), with daily takings exceeding 100 million yuan for seven straight days, CCTV reported on Thursday. The holiday registered 31.996 million admissions and 3.29 million screenings, up 2.21% year on year. Domestic films claimed 78.7% of the total box office.

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#PeakoftheArena Twelve years after his Asian Games debut, Chinese equestrian Hua Tian returns for his fourth continental Games with more experience, a deeper pool of horses and a career-best 12th-place finish at the recent FEI Eventing World Championships.
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A young Chinese team is turning stories from China’s school textbooks into painstakingly made short videos, drawing 130 million-plus views while choosing real actors and locations over #AI to help a new generation rediscover the people and history behind the pages.
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Ma Yansong, the first #Chinese architect to design a major #Western cultural landmark, has created a floating, cloud-like museum in LA that rejects monumental authority. Instead, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art elevates public space and grows from Eastern ideas of nature and imagination. @lucasmuseum
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China’s new hit spy series The Long Watch is not just about “boldness,” but also about the quite heroism of China’s national-security police officers. Covert front work is lonely and long, the show’s screenwriter said. An officer may retire after decades without a spectacular victory. “Only faith can withstand the long years,” he noted. The story is set during the 1995 Taiwan Straits crisis. It is a spy drama that takes "on a subject rarely treated so directly: the modern history of [cross-Straits] tensions."
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