The fragrance of wintersweet flowers is now spreading throughout the frigid air at Yangzhou's Geyuan Garden, adding some color to the dead of winter.

The year-end tradition of preserving meat is still very popular in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, where residents hang up strings of cured meat and sausages in their backyards to catch the winter sun and wind.

​The Yangzhou 486 Intangible Cultural Heritage Center was included in the first batch of 10 provincial intangible cultural tourism bases, local media reported on Jan 7.

Gorgeous Yangzhou, an overseas social media platform of Yangzhou city in East China's Jiangsu province, was launched on Jan 6 as a key part of the city's international communication efforts.

Oriental storks, a bird species under first-class state protection in China, seem to have a particular fondness for building their homes on electricity pylons.