The People's Bank of China has upgraded the fifth edition of the renminbi (RMB), the Chinese currency, and on Monday announced the issuing of the new batch from Aug. 30.

The number of inbound visa-free tourists has increased by 16.3 percent in south China's island province of Hainan since last May, local authorities said on Wednesday.

China's Tsinghua University claims the number one spot in the Times Higher Education (THE)'s Asia University Rankings 2019, becoming the first university on the Chinese mainland to top the rankings revealed by the Thursday.

Since March 2017, more than 200 artifacts from the National Museum of Afghanistan, in Kabul, have been touring China to offer a portrait of a civilization standing at the crossroads of East and West.

In what appears to be improved ties between Beijing and Tokyo, Chinese citizens topped the list of foreigners aware of both Japan's upcoming imperial succession and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, according to a recent survey by a Japanese think tank.