China has long revered its sacred mountains, with thousands visiting them every year to pay their respects to monuments to Taoism, Buddhism and folk religion. But beneath the feet of these ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what is now considered the oldest section of the Great Wall in Shandong Province, shifting its ...

Parts of the Great Wall of China — almost certainly the first historical wall that most people would associate with China — have stood for more than 2,200 years. Now, a group of archaeologists ...

In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming ...

Ninety-six-year-old Li Ka-shing earned the nickname “superman” for his uncanny sense of when to sell. Not for the first time, ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a 2,800-year-old fortified wall that predates the country's first emperor. The wall, which runs through a narrow mountain pass in the eastern province of ...

Centered around world heritage sites such as the Central Axis of Beijing and the Great Wall, the "Top 10 Spring Flower-­viewing Destinations" were released by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of ...