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Foreign companies eye opportunities in western China's green industries
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August 12, 2026
China's mega water project transfers over 90 billion cubic meters of water
The first phase of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project has diverted a cumulative total of more than 90 billion cubic meters of water through its eastern and middle routes as of Monday, marking a new milestone for the world's largest water diversion initiative.
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August 12, 2026
Foreign financial institutions bullish on China's hard-tech growth momentum
Foreign financial institutions are finding a stronger investment case in China's hard-tech industries as breakthroughs in AI, semiconductors, and advanced manufacturing are driving more exports, higher earnings, and growing interest from global investors.
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August 10, 2026
Digital technology reshapes China's service consumption landscape
From virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences that bring museum collections closer to visitors, to AI-powered travel planning and personalized recommendations on e-commerce platforms, digital technologies are fundamentally reshaping how Chinese consumers discover and enjoy exciting new services.
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August 7, 2026
IPO, innovation and industry: What a chipmaker's rise tells about China's push in memory sector
In just one decade, Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has transformed from a startup in an industry long dominated by global players into one of the world's largest producers of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and the most valuable listed company on the A-share market.
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August 7, 2026
Test run begins on China's northernmost high-speed railway
A high-speed railway traversing a permafrost zone in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province entered trial operation on Thursday, bringing the country's northernmost bullet-train line one step closer to official service.
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August 6, 2026
China empowers Global South nations through AI technology
In recent years, China has seen its intelligent technology increasingly being deployed across the Global South, in sectors like disaster mitigation and agriculture, helping to bridge the digital and intelligence divide.
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August 6, 2026
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.
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August 5, 2026
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.
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August 5, 2026
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.
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August 5, 2026
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.
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August 5, 2026
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.
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August 4, 2026
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.
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August 4, 2026
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.
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August 3, 2026
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.
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August 3, 2026
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.
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July 31, 2026
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.
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July 31, 2026
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.
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July 29, 2026
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).
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July 29, 2026
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.
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July 24, 2026
Why foreigners are drawn to China
China has seen a growing number of foreign visitors. More foreigners are coming to China for work, life and travel, drawn by factors including convenience, public safety and a tangible futuristic vibe.
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July 24, 2026
Pontoon bridges, drones and AI joining China's disaster response
In the ongoing flood season this summer, new technologies ranging from drones to artificial intelligence (AI) have figured prominently in China's efforts to improve disaster rescue, monitoring and early warning.
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July 23, 2026
Chinese villagers take center stage in revitalizing rural culture
Across China, new forms of cultural expression are lowering the barriers for rural communities to engage in creative activities. Farmers are no longer just characters in stories told by others. Instead, they are increasingly becoming storytellers, performers and beneficiaries in their own right.
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July 23, 2026
Xinjiang deploys 108-arm robot for cotton topping, slashes labor costs
It has 108 mechanical arms, rolls through cotton fields like a slow-moving tank, and performs more than 300,000 snips an hour. It is not some new weapon from a superhero movie, but a real robot built to do one of farming's most tedious jobs: cotton topping.
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July 22, 2026
Chinese Gravity-1 rocket launches new satellites from sea
China on Wednesday sent a Gravity-1 carrier rocket into space from waters off the coast of Shanghai in east China, marking a complete success for this flight test mission.
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July 22, 2026
From sand to sensors: How a tech initiative is bridging rural China's education gap
For much of the world, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, a landlocked area in China's arid northwest, conjures images of sweeping deserts, succulent goji berries and tender lamb. Increasingly, it is also known as a green energy powerhouse, with vast solar and wind farms sprawling across its Gobi desert.
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July 22, 2026
China distributes childcare subsidies to over 25 million babies in 2026
China has distributed this year's childcare subsidies to 25.16 million babies, the National Health Commission said Tuesday.
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July 21, 2026
China's AI classroom revolution takes root
China achieved internet connectivity across all primary and secondary schools in 2020, laying the foundation for wider adoption of digital learning tools. Today, AI is increasingly viewed as the next step in this transformation.
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July 20, 2026
China's energy storage sector benefits from synergy between AI, electricity
China's energy storage industry is in line to benefit first from a drive to promote greater integration of the country's artificial intelligence (AI) and new energy sectors as part of its development blueprint for the next five years.
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July 20, 2026
Restoring grasslands sustains both land and life in China's Inner Mongolia
Winds howl across the Hunshandake Sandy Land, 180 km north of Beijing. Two decades ago, they fueled dust storms across northern China. Today, they raise waves of green grass. The wind has not changed; the land has.
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July 20, 2026
China releases action plan on international AI ethics governance
An action plan on international artificial intelligence (AI) ethics governance was released Friday at the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai.