Culture – China Focus

Urumqi: Where the Wind Never Stops and Neither Does the City

Urumqi is becoming one of the engines behind China's clean energy transition, while still holding onto a cultural identity defined by centuries at the...

Chinese Elements at the 2026 World Cup

China's contribution to the event is no longer just about what fans wear or wave, but what they see and connect with emotionally on one of the world's biggest...

ECONOMY WATCH China & The World Culture Economy Jun 22, 2026

Living the Story

As visitors increasingly seek deeper engagement with local culture and history, China’s tourism market is embracing new forms of experience-based consumption...

ECONOMY WATCH Culture Economy Jun 18, 2026

Why the Classics Still Matter – and Why Now

In an era marked by casual historical revisionism, shallow cultural relativism, and unwarranted attacks on established facts, about antiquity as much as about...

China & The World Culture Jun 11, 2026

Beyond the Goals: Football and the Making of a County

In an age of curated spectacles, Rongjiang offers something rarer. Not just goals, but meaning. Not just growth, but connection. And if football can help...

Culture Economy Jun 5, 2026

Beyond Western Narratives: A Foreigner’s Perspective on China’s New Ethnic Unity Law

The unity of diverse regions, peoples, and cultures in China is a key to the rapid progress and shared development of the nation.

Politics Culture May 26, 2026

Living Archive of Global Exchange

From the enticing grasslands and rugged mountains of the north to the ancient ruins and surviving cities of the Silk Road, Xinjiang offers a legacy of...

Politics Culture May 12, 2026

Tails on the Tracks

A pet-friendly society is gradually taking shape in China.

Culture Economy Environment May 9, 2026

Classics at a Click

Digitisation, AI and new cultural experiences are breathing new life into ancient Chinese books and bringing them closer to readers.

Science & Technology Culture May 8, 2026

Striving, Not Sinking: The Hidden Vitality of China’s Youth in Transition

Chinese youth today do face significant challenges and competition, but these are the natural friction of rapid development, not a terminal crisis. The truth...

Culture Economy Environment Apr 24, 2026

An American Crosses Divides to Put Down Roots in China

We might have different cultural values, we might have different cultural norms, we might have perceptions about each other. But the fact is we are both human.

China & The World Culture Apr 21, 2026