China firmly committed to global drug-control cooperation
August 19, 2026
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Abandoned Chinese mines offer cool solutions for scorching summer heat
As summer heatwaves scorch parts of China, a city in east China's Jiangsu Province has launched the country's first residential centralized cooling project that uses water from abandoned coal mines, offering a cost-effective and eco-friendly cooling solution.
August 6, 2026
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International exhibitions add cultural appeal to China's summer travel season
International exhibitions are gaining traction across China this summer and offering visitors more opportunities to explore civilizations from around the world.
August 5, 2026
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From barren land, a wine region takes root
By combining grape cultivation with ecological restoration, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has built China's largest concentrated wine-producing area, with digital technology and tourism adding further value to the industry.
August 5, 2026
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China's SAIC Motor signs joint venture renewal agreement with GM
Chinese automaker SAIC Motor and General Motors (GM) on Wednesday announced a 20-year extension of their joint venture partnership to 2047.
August 5, 2026
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China's Smart Dragon-3 rocket successfully launches 2 satellites from sea
A carrier rocket launched from waters off east China's Shandong Province Wednesday has sent two hyperspectral satellites into orbit, which are expected to support high-precision observation in China and large-scale monitoring of land and sea worldwide.
August 5, 2026
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Chinese Long March-8A rocket launches new internet satellite group
China sent a new batch of internet satellites into orbit Tuesday from a commercial spacecraft launch site in the southern island province of Hainan.
August 5, 2026
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China's 'Ice City' fuels summer boom with indoor attractions
Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, is known as China's "Ice City" for its freezing winters, ice sculptures and winter sports. After the outdoor section of Harbin Ice-Snow World, the world's largest ice-and-snow theme park, closed this February, its indoor ice-and-snow pavilion took over, offering visitors a cool escape from the summer heat.
August 5, 2026
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Chinese cities explore new roles for gig workers as 'community responders'
With around 84 million people in China engaged in new forms of employment such as delivery riders, couriers and ride-hailing drivers, multiple cities are experimenting with different approaches to leverage their mobility, neighborhood familiarity and frequent interactions with residents to strengthen local communities.
August 5, 2026
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China's AI industry tops 1.2 trillion yuan in 2025, up 40%
The size of China's artificial intelligence (AI) industry was estimated to exceed 1.2 trillion yuan (about 176.7 billion U.S. dollars) in 2025, up 40 percent year on year, according to a research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
August 4, 2026
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China testing AI-powered patrol vessel in Shenzhen
On a busy stretch of water in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, a 12-meter-long maritime patrol vessel adjusted its course, followed its assigned route and scanned the surface for potential hazards — all without an officer having to steer it through every maneuver. The vessel, Haixun 14102, is China's first maritime law enforcement boat to receive an integrated digital and intelligent upgrade.
August 4, 2026
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Tech innovation reshapes China's granary heartland, bolstering food security
Powered by smart farming solutions, technological upgrading is reshaping the heartland of China's granary in the province, bolstering the country's food security.
August 4, 2026
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China's embodied intelligence endeavors reshaping productivity
This is precisely the shift happening in China's embodied intelligence industry: from "able to walk" to "able to work" and from the showroom to the production line.
August 4, 2026
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Outsmarting climate change with high-tech at Mogao Grottoes
Visitors to the Mogao Grottoes often find themselves lost in reverie, but few ever glance back at the unassuming gray cave doors behind them. These smart doors actually exemplify how the Mogao Grottoes are harnessing technology to adapt to a changing climate.
August 4, 2026
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Hualong One nuclear power unit starts operation in south China
A new nuclear power unit using Hualong One, a domestically designed third-generation nuclear reactor, began commercial operation on Monday in south China's Guangdong Province, according to China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN).
August 4, 2026
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Trade-in program drives smart, green cooling upgrade across China
Across China this summer, a more targeted trade-in program and an early heatwave have accelerated the replacement of aging appliances with more efficient, smarter models -- a push that underscores an upgrade in the quality of consumption.
August 3, 2026
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China's entrepreneurial ecosystem fuels growth of startups
From Chinese-style music to smart glasses, an array of eye-catching startup projects turned an exhibition center in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, into a vibrant showcase of innovation and creativity this week.
August 3, 2026
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Chinese plateau salmon expands into global markets
Over more than a decade, Longyangxia has built a chain covering hatchery, farming, processing, cold storage and overseas shipment.
August 3, 2026
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Beyond sci-fi: AI reimagines and powers Chinese solo startups
Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is helping create a new generation of "one-person bands," opening up new doors for young entrepreneurs in China to build and operate businesses with AI tools.
August 3, 2026
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Lab meets real world at China's robot 'vocational school'
At a "school" in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, "teachers" hold remote controls, sensors record every move, and "students" drill the same task again and again until they get it right. Those "students" are actually robots. More than 140 of them are currently training at the National Pilot Base for Embodied AI Applications in over 40 job-oriented scenarios, which include smart kitchens, warehouses, farms and a dimly lit mock mine tunnel.
August 3, 2026
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Saturday marks the 99th founding anniversary of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) as it continues its journey from a fledgling revolutionary force to a modern military advancing toward its centenary.
August 2, 2026
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China issues management rules for Huangyan Dao National Nature Reserve
China on Saturday issued the management measures for the Huangyan Dao National Nature Reserve, a key step in safeguarding the diversity, stability and sustainability of the Huangyan Dao natural ecosystem.
August 2, 2026
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China establishes technical committee on quantum information standardization
A technical committee on quantum information standardization under China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was established Thursday at a meeting in Beijing.
July 31, 2026
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China's high-tech transformation fuels global investors' bullish outlook
China's technology-driven industrial transformation is drawing increasing attention from international investors as the global AI boom fuels demand for computing hardware.
July 31, 2026
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China's mega tunneling machine completes Yangtze River underwater tunnel breakthrough
The world's largest-diameter shield tunneling machine, tailored for high-speed railway projects and developed domestically in China, successfully holed through an underwater tunnel traversing the Yangtze River on Thursday.
July 31, 2026
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China's online literature grows in scale, expands global reach
China's online literature industry continued to grow in both scale and global influence in 2025, with the total number of online literary works exceeding 33 million and the overseas readership reaching about 250 million, according to a report released on Thursday.
July 31, 2026
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China reshapes global AI landscape with trillion-parameter open-weight models
China is making significant strides in reshaping the global AI landscape, as a new generation of frontier open-weight models is poised to bridge the global "intelligence gap" by providing advanced and affordable computing tools for less developed nations and grassroots innovators.
July 30, 2026
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China's economy starts new five-year plan with resilience, new growth drivers
China's steady first-half growth in 2026 underscored the resilience of the world's second-largest economy and the growing role of new growth drivers as it embarked on a new five-year development period, Chinese officials said.
July 30, 2026
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Chinese astronomers find pulsar with three coexisting emission variations
A group of Chinese researchers has revealed a pulsar that can simultaneously exhibit three key emission variability phenomena, overturning the previous observations that pulsars showed only one or two kinds of radiation variations, according to a research article recently published in The Astrophysical Journal.
July 29, 2026
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Rising CIIE participation signals foreign firms' strong confidence in China market
Foreign enterprises are showing renewed optimism and expressing stronger confidence in China's resilient economy amid the 100-day countdown to the 9th China International Import Expo (CIIE).
July 29, 2026
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APEC meetings in Chengdu promotes AI development, cooperation
Before an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can answer a learner in Bangkok, the technology behind it may already have crossed several borders throughout Asia.
July 29, 2026