The Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently released a new group of 325 national intangible cultural heritage items in Beijing, increasing the total of ICH items to 1,557 on the national list, which was established in 2006.
A Cameroonian living in the coastal city of Yueqing, East China's Zhejiang province, invited three expat friends to learn to make zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) with him from Chinese locals a couple of days before the Dragon Boat Festival.
Chen Jianfei and Chen Shengyong, a pair of brothers born and raised in an underdeveloped village in Yongjia county, Zhejiang province, were both included in the World's Top 2% Scientists, a list published by Stanford University in May.
The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism launched an annual international cultural exchange event entitled "Focus on Zhejiang" at the Wenzhou Overseas Communication Center in the city of Wenzhou on May 22.
The Chint Group, an industrial electrical equipment and new-energy enterprise, is helping construct several hundred photovoltaic power stations in countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.
Ten agricultural projects in East China's Zhejiang province were included on a list of programs that will receive financial support from the central government.
Construction on a number of new railway lines crossing East China's Zhejiang province has recently made steady progress.
Zhang visited his alma mater, Ruian High School, carrying a large Jingdezhen porcelain vase that he had kept for 35 years.
The five cities are Taiyuan from Shanxi province, Wenzhou from Zhejiang province, Jinan, Zibo and Yantai from Shandong province.