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 Some 10,000 spectators gathered to watch a parade along Shuncheng Street in downtown Chengdu yesterday morning to mark the start of the International Festival on Intangible Cultural Heritage. |
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 Huangshan city in eastern China's Anhui Province, where the UNESCO world heritage site Mount Huangshan is located, is adopting a new way to protect its cultural relics. |
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 Beijing's Qianmen Street, which is currently under redevelopment, will restore its streetscape to that of the early twentieth century, through use of historical photos, becoming the second pedestrian thoroughfare in the Chinese capital, after Wangfujing Street, the downtown shopping district. |
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 Chinese archaeologists have recovered around 10,000 pieces of antique pottery and porcelain in an underwater excavation of a shipwreck believed to date back to the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) in the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea. |
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 Senior publicity officials of the Communist Party of China yesterday called for a general overhaul of the 70-year-old Xinhua Bookstore. |
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 A controversial 21-km dragon project, planned as a tourist attraction in a national forest in Xinzheng, Henan Province, was started without environmental assessment and is illegal, the country's environment watchdog confirmed on Monday. |
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 The trucks roared past Tian'anmen Square on Saturday, marking the beginning of the 2.6 billion yuan (US$332 million) effort to rebuild the national museum into the world's largest. |
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 Flickering red lanterns, loud firecrackers and laughter when people goof on word puzzles -- such was the scene when some Beijing folk organizations crammed into an old hutong to relive long-gone Lantern Festival traditions. |
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 People will probably have days off on traditional Chinese festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Pure Brightness Festival (Tomb Sweeping Festival); but the three seven-day "golden week" national holidays Labour Day (May 1), National Day (October 1) and the Chinese New Year may be shortened, said Zhai Zhenwu, a professor at the Renmin University of China, yesterday. |
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 Mei Baojiu, a renowned Peking Opera artist, has recently proposed a necessary curb on debasing content in pop TV reality shows around the country. made the call prior to the upcoming Fifth Session of the Tenth National Committee of the country's top advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC). |
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