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February 7, 2025

Foreign visitors experience China's improved mobile payment environment over Spring Festival

Foreign visitors in China experienced a smoother, more convenient travel environment during this year's Spring Festival, thanks to improvements to the country's mobile payment systems.
February 6, 2025

Asian Winter Games experts praise ice quality at Heilongjiang Ice Training Center

The ice rink at the Heilongjiang Ice Training Center has been praised by experts, athletes and coaches from teams including Kazakhstan and South Korea, before the opening of the Harbin Asian Winter Games.
February 6, 2025

China sees surging culture, tourism market during 2025 Spring Festival holiday

China witnessed a remarkable surge in its culture and tourism market during the eight-day Spring Festival holiday, which ended on Tuesday, with several market segments climbing to all-time highs.
February 5, 2025

Spring Festival boosts travel, consumption as 8-day holiday nears end

As China wraps up its 8-day Spring Festival holiday celebrating the start of the Year of the Snake, the world's second-largest economy has witnessed shopping and travel booms ignited by hundreds of millions of Chinese people's family reunions.
February 5, 2025

China's Chang'e-7 mission to land on lunar south pole for water ice search, report says

China's Chang'e-7 lunar probe, scheduled for launch in 2026, will target the moon's south pole to search for water ice and test cutting-edge technologies critical for sustainable human activities on the moon, China Media Group reported Monday.
February 2, 2025

Shenzhou-19 astronauts share details of work and life in space with mission halfway through

As China's Shenzhou-19 mission reaches its halfway, the three astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station, orbiting 400 kilometers above Earth, have shared their experiences during the Spring Festival, offering a glimpse into their unique lives in space.
January 30, 2025

Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve sees over 200 million inter-regional trips across China

Some 204.39 million inter-regional trips were made in China on Tuesday, the Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve, according to official statistics.
January 28, 2025

Shenzhou-19 astronauts send Spring Festival greetings from space station

Shenzhou-19 astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze sent their Spring Festival greetings from China's Tiangong space station in a video released by the China Manned Space Agency on New Year's Eve.
January 27, 2025

Local to-do lists underscore China's economic vitality

In the run-up to Chinese New Year, the local "two sessions" meetings, which recently concluded, have devised pragmatic roadmaps for high-quality growth in 2025, highlighting the Chinese economy's remarkable resilience and dynamic potential.
January 26, 2025

Spring Festival rush: Visa-free policies ignite surge in foreign tourist arrivals

As China continues to relax its visa-free policies, the country has seen a notable increase in foreign visitors joining the Spring Festival travel rush, eager to experience its rich cultural traditions.
January 26, 2025

Expanding charging options power NEVs for Spring Festival travel rush

China's highway network is now brimming with charging options. Alongside regular charging stations, new supercharging hubs, mobile charging piles and remotely operated mobile charging vehicles are making it easier than ever for new energy vehicles (NEVs) to hit the road this Spring Festival.
January 26, 2025

China's rural reform initiator writes new revitalization chapter

Just days ahead of the upcoming Spring Festival, residents of a rural village named Xiaogang, located in east China's Anhui Province, met joyously to collect bumper red packets.
January 24, 2025

China honors Shenzhou-18 mission astronauts with medals

The three crew members of China's Shenzhou-18 mission -- Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu -- were awarded medals on Thursday for their services to China's space endeavors.
January 22, 2025

China delivers first batch of homegrown, mass-produced large civil UAVs

A batch of independently developed large civil unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) rolled off the production line on Monday in China.
January 21, 2025

China's space station achieves breakthrough in extraterrestrial artificial photosynthesis

Among the key challenges to sustaining long-term life beyond Earth are achieving self-sufficiency and reducing reliance on Earth's resource supply.
January 21, 2025

Chinese 'artificial sun' sets new record in milestone step toward fusion power generation

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), dubbed China's "artificial sun," maintained a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for a remarkable 1,066 seconds on Monday, setting a new world record and marking a breakthrough in the quest for fusion power generation.
January 20, 2025

Infrastructure, ecology, post-quake recovery among Xizang's top agendas in 2025

Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region has targeted strong economic and social development in 2025, with infrastructure construction, eco-environmental conservation and reconstruction in the quake-hit areas some of its priorities listed in the regional government work report.
January 20, 2025

China's housing market gains strong momentum amid policy boosts, inventory cuts

Cafe on the first floor, gym and reading center on the second, and a fully furnished one-bedroom apartment with a monthly rent of 836 yuan (about 116 U.S. dollars)... for fresh college graduates like Liu Yumeng, this is the dream apartment they've always hoped for.
January 19, 2025

China's internet users surpass 1.1 billion, powering digital economy and innovation

The number of internet users in China hit 1.1 billion by December 2024, up 16 million from the previous year, according to an industrial report on the country's internet development released on Friday.
January 17, 2025

Green-painted trains provide cost-effective rides for rural vendors

With a wooden pole resting on her shoulder to help carry two wicker baskets of vegetables, rural vendor Zhao Shuying boards the No.5652 train with its old-fashioned green livery, heading for a nearby city to sell her fresh produce.
January 17, 2025

East China's economic powerhouse to foster private industry giants

Zhejiang, a major manufacturing province in eastern China, plans to cultivate 20 new "Eagle Enterprises," or industry leaders, predominantly from its private sector, in 2025.
January 16, 2025

2025 Spring Festival travel rush preview in numbers

As Spring Festival approaches, the annual travel rush for family reunions began on Jan 14. Here are some figures offering a glimpse into the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush.
January 16, 2025

Young Chinese embracing new professions, blazing new trails

The adoption of advanced techniques and machinery has ushered in a new era of intelligent farming, transforming one of the world's oldest professions into a modern and dynamic one. This transition has attracted a growing number of young individuals, like Luo, who are redefining the future of agriculture in the country.
January 16, 2025

Shanghai economy surpasses 5 trillion yuan in 2024

Shanghai's economy exceeded 5 trillion yuan (about 695.6 billion U.S. dollars) in 2024, mayor of the east China metropolis, Gong Zheng, said Wednesday.
January 15, 2025

Chinese capital's economy registers 5.2% growth in 2024

The gross domestic product (GDP) of the Chinese capital, Beijing, increased about 5.2 percent year on year in 2024, mayor Yin Yong said Tuesday.
January 15, 2025

Hainan to start independent customs operations by end of 2025

South China's tropical island province of Hainan is intensifying efforts to build itself into a free trade port (FTP), aiming to establish independent customs operations by the end of 2025, according to a government work report presented at the annual session of the Hainan Provincial People's Congress, which opened on Tuesday.
January 15, 2025

Decades-long efforts turn north China deserts into oases

Inner Mongolia, as one of the regions in China most severely affected by desertification and sandification, has long prioritized sand control as a key task in combating these threats. It has continuously implemented the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program and promoted other ecological projects including afforestation and enforcement of grazing bans.
January 14, 2025

China's Spring Festival travel rush starts with 9B trips expected

China ushered in its largest annual population migration on Tuesday, 15 days ahead of the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year.
January 14, 2025

China's Smart Dragon-3 rocket launches satellites from sea

A Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3) rocket lifted off on Monday in east China's Shandong Province, sending the satellite group CentiSpace 01 into the planned orbit.
January 14, 2025

China's auto output, sales both reach new heights in 2024

China's auto sector hit a milestone in 2024 as both production and sales exceeded 31 million units, industry data showed on Monday.