Culture: Royal jewels come to Shenzhen

An exhibition titled Awaken: Royal Jewelry Arts from the Renaissance to the 20th Century opened at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning in Guangdong province, on Sunday. More than 160 pieces of royal treasure collected from 20 countries and regions and spanning four centuries are on display. The exhibits include necklaces, pendants, pocket watches, crowns, snuff bottles and other luxury items from Europe. More than 100 treasures are on display for the first time. The exhibition will run to March 1.

Travel: Chinese visitor surge to Finland

The rising number of Chinese visitors has contributed to the growth of Finnish tourism, according to the national broadcaster. Citing booking numbers from Visit Finland, the report said a total of 140,000 Chinese tourists will visit Finland from December to February, up 16 percent from last winter. Direct flights from China to Finland are the driving force for the tourist growth. China's Juneyao Air, Tibet Airlines and Sichuan Airlines all started flights to Helsinki in 2019. Finland's national carrier Finnair also started to offer thrice weekly flights to Beijing Daxing International Airport this year. Among popular attractions for Chinese tourists are Lapland, Finland's northernmost region, and the Paljakka ski resort in Puolanka, a town in central Finland with 2,600 residents.

Film: Ip Man 4 leads box office this week

Ip Man 4, the latest installment in the martial arts film franchise Ip Man based on the life of a legendary Wing Chun (a form of kung fu) master, led the Chinese box office this week, according to the China Movie Data Information Network. Set in the 1960s, the film sees Donnie Yen reprising the title role as the kung fu master who travels to the United States to work with Bruce Lee after the latter decides to open a Wing Chun school.

Society: Metro app to cover 10 cities

Metro passengers are able to scan a QR code on the Metro Daduhui app this week to pay their fare in 10 cities in the Yangtze River Delta, said Shanghai Shentong Metro Group. Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo were the first three cities in the region to adopt the method in December last year. Since then, seven other cities have joined the network. Changzhou in Jiangsu province was the final piece in the jigsaw. Shengtong Metro said more than 3 million people have used the app.