The 6th Xiannu Mountain Ice and Snow Festival opened in Wulong, Southeast China's Chongqing municipality, on Dec 27. Ninety-nine newly-married couples held a romantic Han-style collective wedding.
Filled with joy and sorrow, 2014 has come to an end. China Daily has gather this year's most newsworthy China stories for a look back at the year that was.
Many migrants who come to big cities from rural areas to seek fortune find business by selling lunch to construction workers.
These striking images show ice climbers scaling frozen waterfalls beneath incredible night skies.
Up to 93 children from Daliang Mountain in southwest China's Sichuan province study at a private music school in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei province.
Two Chinese artists are getting a spotlight in "the Crossroads of the World" -- New York's Times Square.
According to "China's Economic Life Survey", released by CCTV (China Central Television), the ranking of China's happiest cities in 2014 came out.
Zhang Qiyue (center), new consul general of China in New York, is welcomed by representatives from the Chinese community after her arrival at the John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday.
The AirAsia plane with 162 people on board may have fallen into the bottom of the sea, said Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency chief Monday.
Chinese director Ning Hao's road comedy Breakup Buddies topped the list of the highest selling Chinese films in 2014.
Labeled as "the beginning year of China's comprehensively deepening reform era", 2014 has seen many real changes in various fields.
The skies were clear in Malaysia late in the evening of March 7 as Hou Aiqin passed through the security checks at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. She was due to take Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, bound for Beijing, scheduled to take off at 1:41 am minutes on March 8.