Legend has it that many Chinese in the world originated from Hongtong county. Zhang Zixuan visits southern Shanxi province and discovers more intriguing tales.
The Ministry of Agriculture said Sunday that 55 percent of the country's winter wheat has been harvested with the help of an abundant supply of agricultural machinery.
Young artists are working on mural paintings, which are presented in the exhibition Renaissance: Restoration of the Murals of Shanhua Temple, Datong China, at the museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Shanxi province (Jin, in abbreviated form) lies along the middle reaches of the Yellow River, to the west of the Taihang Mountains, in central China, covering 156,000 square kilometers.