A promoter dressed as a teddy bear rests along a retail street in Zhangjiakou in northern China's Hebei province on Dec. 22. AP SHANGHAI — It took less than 24 hours for all the Christmas trees ...

Before becoming president, Xi went to Finland in 2010 and was photographed with Santa Claus. That kind of chumminess appears to be a thing of Christmas past, experts say.

A teacher dressed in a Santa Claus costume teaches students to make a mini Christmas tree in Yantai, East China's Shandong province, Dec 12, 2015. Santa Claus is busy during the Christmas period.

A joke involving Santa Claus, heavy smog in China, fear of false accusations, and a lack of permits has been making the rounds on Chinese social media on Thursday.

Santa Claus is melting in one of China's coldest cities. Each year Harbin hosts a world-renowned ice festival. This year's show features an 80-foot ice sculpture of the jolly old elf. But a warm ...

Growing up in the Chinese countryside with only an elementary school education, Yang Yanjun had never heard of Christmas until she landed a job painting pink-cheeked cherubs to decorate trees.

MOHE, China, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Santa Claus and his elves have been busy at work turning a Christmas village in northern China into a winter wonderland for visitors. In a two-storey wooden house ...

Christmas signs being described here are merely the ones visible to all: the colors red and green (as opposed to Beijing’s usual dusty gray), the Santa Claus impersonators visiting schools, the ...

China has one-upped us! In China, Santa Claus is a musician whose favorite instrument is the saxophone! Google says so. Plain old St. Nick is beginning to seem one-dimensional.