The peony was the top choice for "national flower" in a referendum held throughout China in 1994. But no final decision has ever been made and not everyone agrees with that choice -- or even if ...

Residents in Dounan began planting flowers in 1983. In the 1990s, they embarked on the path of commercial cultivation and ...

China has a wide variety of flowering plants; the peony, a flower indigenous to ... and is treasured as one of the country's national flowers.?

A new study has decoded the complex genome of the Tibetan wild tree peony (Paeonia ludlowii), revealing its evolutionary ...

On China's National Day on October 1, Chinese posts dismissing Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa repeatedly shared an old ...

Red Charm' is a bombe-shaped (named after the ice cream dessert) peony bloom. The stamens of this style of flower are ...

Fellows in the Center for China Analysis’ (CCA) Foreign Policy and National Security pillar conduct research into China’s external affairs. We focus on geographical areas that carry heightened ...

China's weeklong celebration of its National Day, from October 1, is known as the "golden week" because it's the Asian giant's biggest week for travel, tourism and leisure spending. However ...

Pandas are back in Washington. Two giant pandas from China arrived in D.C. on Tuesday and were transferred to their new home at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

China has taken a step forward in its ambitious plan to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 – unveiling the specially designed spacesuit its crew will don for what’s expected to be a landmark ...

Diplomats from a variety of countries have been sent home over crimes, rude behaviour and allegedly starting a spy school After the vote the People's Republic of China began efforts to 'build ...