A poster of the animation feature Love Sick [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
China never lacks access to quality animation productions. The difficulty lies in how to translate them successfully and adapt them into the market, but young Chinese animation creators are on the move. Zhang Xingjian reports.
From the Disney-made blockbuster Zootopia […]
Chang Yangyang shows his works, Dec 29, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]
In many people’s eyes, 23 year-old Chang Yangyang is unusual compared to his peers. He always stays at home, paints flowers, cuts paper and carries a small pair of scissors in his pocket wherever he goes.
His mother complains about his paper-cutting […]
Colorful skies greeted early risers in Beijing, Jan 10. Beijing residents saw blue skies on Sunday, as a cold front dispersed the smog which had been hovering over the capital for the past week. [Photo/IC]
A photo taken on the Forth North Ring Road in Beijing captures a pretty sunrise in Beijing […]
Wang Puzhang, 55, mixes flour before making a set of patterned steamed buns for a customer’s wedding ceremony at his home in Banyapo village, Huazhou district of Weinan, Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, in the early morning of Jan 4, 2017. Huazhou patterned steamed buns, with a history of 3,000 years, is a […]
Lots of migratory birds are spotted this winter at Poyang Lake, China’s biggest freshwater lake, in Yongxiu county, Jiangxi province on Dec 16, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]
NANCHANG — Some 160,000 migratory birds have been spotted this winter at Poyang Lake, China’s biggest freshwater lake, authorities said Monday.
Poyang in eastern China’s Jiangxi province is a […]
Snow covered log cabins and “snow mushrooms” in Xuexiang Village on Jan 2, 2016. [Photo/IC]
Xuexiang Village, which literally means snow village, a once State-owned impoverished forestry farm located in China’s northernmost province of Heilongjiang, has been transformed into a booming tourist resort, thanks to its forest resources and vision.
Formerly […]
A seal “pose” for photos at China’s Zhongshan Station in Antarctica, Dec 6, 2016. Several seals approached the research station recently.[Photo from Sina Weibo account of CCTV news]
Several seals approached China’s Zhongshan Station in Antarctica, even “posing” for photos.[Photo from Sina Weibo account of CCTV news]
Several seals […]
The two, born on July 15, 2013, are the first surviving panda twins ever born in the United States. Their parents, Lun Lun and Yang Yang, were sent to Zoo Atlanta in 1999 under a breeding and research agreement between China and the United States. [Photo by She Yi/ For China Daily]
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Research vessel and icebreaker Xuelong (Snow Dragon) docks 31km from China’s Zhongshan station in Antarctic on Dec 5, 2016. Taking an expedition team of more than 200 members, it arrived there on Monday after a month-long journey that started on Nov 2 from Shanghai. [Photo from Sina Weibo account of CCTV news]
Flowers blossom at Sangke Grassland in Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Gansu, on July 16, 2016. [Photo/IC]
A folk song from the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589) goes like this: “When the wind blows, cattle and sheep are revealed in the swaying grass”. After 14 years of grassland preservation, such a scene […]
Actors take part in the “Parade through Macao, Latin City” in Macao, South China, Dec 4, 2016. The parade was held on Sunday to mark the 17th anniversary of Macao’s return to China. [Photo/Xinhua]
Actresses take part in the “Parade through Macao, Latin City” in Macao, South China, Dec 4, 2016. The parade […]
SWAT teams practice crowd control in Beijing, on Nov 29, 2016. Around 300 police officers from 11 countries participated in a joint security drill. The exercise was part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s police cooperation meeting in the capital. [Photo by Zou Hong/China Daily]
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