In the Jan.-May period, retail sales surged 25.7 percent year on year, with the two-year average growth standing at 4.3 percent.

The photos were displayed at the 2021 Hainan International Diving Festival Launching Ceremony Underwater Photography Competition held last month.

Da Ke Ding together with Da Yu Ding, another bronze vessel that unearthed in the same period and collected at the National Museum of China, will be on display at the Shanghai Museum.

Located at the Ngari Prefecture in Tibet, the Pangong Tso Lake is at an average altitude of 4,242 meters. Its glamorous scenery and abundant natural resources attract birds of diverse species to inhabit there every year.

From Ricci to Johann Adam Schall von Bell and many others, Jesuits enjoyed significant status and prestige during the 17th-century Ming-Qing transition, most notably in the early Kangxi Period after 1662, where Jesuits dominated the Bureau of Imperial Astronomy, among other fields.

Cooking skills related to Sichuan cuisine integrate the wisdom of local people, as an important part of Bashu culture along with the Sichuan dialect and opera.

The Shenzhou-12 manned spaceship will be launched at 9:22 a.m. Thursday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan affairs are purely China's internal affairs, which brook no interference from outside forces. China is unswerving in its determination to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests.

Private businesses continued to be the biggest contributor to the trade growth in the province, while the United States, the European Union, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are among its major trading partners.

The animals have entered forests after taking food from farmland, complicating the efforts to guide and monitor them and take safety precautions.