Operating the traditional wooden loom requires the collaboration of two artisans.[Photo provided to China Daily]Among China's myriad forms of silk products, one of them — yunjin — remained shrouded in mystery for more than a millennium. Historically reserved exclusively for imperial use,...

Li Jiacheng is revered as one of the most influential businessmen in China as well as in Asia. Nicknamed “Superman”, the 94-year-old Chinese entrepreneur is the richest person in Hong Kong, with an estimated net wealth of US$36.2 billion (as of 2022). His companies were involved in real estate, po...

Yang Zhenning is one of the most famous Chinese scientists. He is a theoretical physicist whose research with Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American physicist, disproved the law of conservation of parity, concerning the interactions of fundamental nuclear particles. The pair shared the 1957 Nobel Prize i...

Wind, Zhu Legeng's work on display at his one-man exhibition,Creating in Inheritance, at the Chinese Traditional Culture Museum in Beijing.[Photo provided to China Daily]Decadeslong experimentation sees master craftsman evolve techniques to give his work another dimension, Lin Qi rep...

Zheng He, a Chinese Muslim eunuch that lived during the early Ming dynasty, is one of the greatest explorers in the history of mankind. Funded by the Ming emperor, he led seven epic voyages between 1405 and 1433 west from China across the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa and deep into the Pe...

Folk craftsmen in Yiquan village in Xinjiang county of Yuncheng, Shanxi province, create gold-paste artwork. [Photo by Gao Xinsheng/For chinadaily.com.cn]Dozens of folk craftsmen in Yiquan village in Xinjiang county of Yuncheng, Shanxi province, were busy creating gold-paste artwork recently.Gold pa...