BEIJING - China on Friday unveiled a 257-member delegation, including 170 athletes, for the upcoming Harbin Asian Winter Games from Feb 7 to 14. Comprising 85 men and 85 women, the squad is headlined by six Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic champions: Gu Ailing, Xu Mengtao, Qi Guangpu, Gao Tingyu, Fan Kexin and Liu Shaoang.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yu In Chon gives a congratulatory speech on Jan. 24 in the Olympia Hall of the Seoul Olympic Parktel in the Songpa-gu District of the capital, during a launch ceremony for the national team competing in the 2025 Asian Winter Games to be held in Harbin, China.

South Korean athletes competing in the upcoming Asian Winter Games held their delegation launch ceremony in Seoul on Friday, vowing to make the country proud with their performances on ice and snow. The Chinese city of Harbin will host the ninth edition of the Asian Winter Games from Feb.

Harbin, the "ice city" in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, has seen a significant increase in foreign tourists following the 240-hour visa-free transit policy, according to the city's airport.

Adhering to a mantra of ‘international standard, domestic first-class’, Wangfujing Duty Free pledged to create a new benchmark for travel retail in Northeast China.

A woman eats hot food to keep warm at a giant hotpot restaurant inside the Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin in China’s Heilongjiang province, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) Li Long serves customers at his iron pot stew restaurant ...

The flame for the Harbin 2025 Asian Winter Games was lit at the Sun Island Scenic Area here on Monday, with 18 days to go before the opening of the Games.

A colorectal cancer (CRC) screening public health initiative launched in Harbin, China has attracted about 830,000 participants for registration. The project utilizes fecal DNA methylation testing technology from BGI Genomics to identify at-risk individuals.

China is one of the most populous countries in the world, surpassed only by India. By the end of 2023, China boasted a population of about 1.4 billion people. Although this marked the country's second year of population decline,

South African lifestyle influencer Sarah Langa made her international runway debut at Harbin Fashion Week, modelling for South African designer, Rich Mnisi.

China’s population has fallen for the third straight year, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation that is now facing both an aging population and an emerging shortage of working age people able to support their elders.

Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit), visitors to China's wintertime resort city of Harbin often make a beeline for stalls selling padded clothing to augment their wardrobes. Oddly perhaps for some, frozen