Excitement permeates the night air as villagers gather to practice and rehearse for the upcoming lantern dragon dance competition in Langxi County, east China's Anhui Province.

Chinese tech giant ByteDance officially launched its artificial intelligence (AI) video-generation model Seedance 2.0 on Thursday, while imposing strict restrictions on uploads featuring real-person images and videos

A total of 76 Chinese scientific journals ranked among the top 5% globally within their disciplines, indicating a steady rise in the international influence of Chinese sci-tech journals, according to the World Journal Clout Index (WJCI) of Scientific and Technological Periodicals (2025).

Diversity key to resilience of China's foreign trade In 2025, China's foreign trade demonstrated strong resilience and vitality. China's total imports and exports reached 45.47 trillion yuan ($6.55 trillion) in 2025

China's railway fixed-asset investment rose 5.5% YoY to 46.3 billion yuan (about $6.71 billion) in January 2026, data from China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. showed Friday.

Orange trumpet vines cascade like a warm red-orange waterfall over Hongqi Town in Zhuhai, south China’s Guangdong Province, filling the breeze with their soft fragrance.

China is now capable of searching for and recovering its return capsule from both land and sea, following the successful test mission of the Mengzhou (Dream Vessel) spacecraft, the country's new-generation spaceship for crewed missions, on Wednesday.

Swans move in flawless beauty amid swirling snow at the Swan Lake Wetland in Rongcheng, east China’s Shandong Province.

China's logistics sector saw steady demand growth, structural optimization, and improved efficiency in 2025, further solidifying its role in supporting economic development, according to data released by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing on Tuesday.

China's National Immigration Administration (NIA) forecasts that the average daily number of inbound and outbound travelers nationwide will surpass 2.05 million during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday, up 14.1% YoY.

Chinese researchers have developed the world's first large-scale quantum key distribution (QKD) network based on integrated photonic quantum chips, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Nature.

China on Thursday launched a Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3) rocket from waters off Yangjiang, south China's Guangdong Province, sending seven satellites, including Pakistan's PRSC-EO2, into the preset orbit.

China's Tianguan satellite has likely captured an intermediate-mass black hole tearing apart and devouring a white dwarf star, marking the first observation of such an extreme event, according to the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)

Chinese heating appliances gain global traction amid seasonal demand As winter sets in, a wave of innovative heating solutions from China is reaching consumers worldwide.

Chinese local authorities have allocated 2.05 billion yuan (about $295.23 million) in funds to directly benefit the public through the distribution of consumption vouchers, subsidies, and cash envelopes during the nine-day Spring Festival holiday, an official said on Wednesday.

China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 0.2% YoY in January, while the producer price index (PPI), which measures costs for goods at the factory gate, went down 1.4% YoY in the same month, the National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday.

In a stunning fusion of art and technology, horses galloped to life across a wall in a mesmerizing light-and-shadow display for the Year of the Horse in east China’s Shanghai.

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited primary-level officials and residents in Beijing during a two-day inspection tour from Monday to Tuesday, extending Spring Festival greetings to Chinese people at home and abroad ahead of the festival.

For the first time, a Chinese-developed optical clock named NIM-Sr1 has contributed to the calibration of International Atomic Time (TAI), marking a milestone in China's optical clock research and boosting the country's influence in international time and frequency studies.

MaltaPost on Monday unveiled its Year of the Horse commemorative postage stamps in Valletta, marking the third consecutive year the country has issued stamps celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year.

China on Saturday launched a cutting-edge AI model for smart ocean forecasting designed specifically for the South China Sea. Feiyu-1.0 is a two-way coupled air-sea model, featuring intelligent forecasting in meteorology, research and ecosystem management.

The China-developed world’s first 5-tonne-class electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft was recently unveiled with a full transition flight in Kunshan, east China’s Jiangsu Province.

A total of 100 China-made natural gas-powered buses for export to Mexico were loaded to a ship at Yantai Port in Yantai, east China's Shandong Province. These buses, which feature lower fuel consumption, stronger power, and longer range, will be deployed in the public transportation system.

Nature’s beauty is on full display in Yongfu Town of Zhangping City, southeast China’s Fujian Province, where far-reaching tea terraces stretch in emerald waves, interspersed with cherry trees ablaze with radiant blossoms.

The opening session of the First Senior Officials' Meeting of APEC China 2026 was held in Guangzhou on Tuesday.

China recorded more than 1.4 billion inter-regional passenger trips during the first week of the 2026 Spring Festival travel rush, which started on February 2, transport authorities said on Monday. It is expected to see a record 9.5 billion inter-regional passenger trips during the 40-day period

China has revised its regulations on nature reserves to promote high-quality conservation efforts, improve management systems and advance the building of a Beautiful China. The revised regulations are set to take effect on March 15.

Chinese scientists have, for the first time, confirmed that the impact cratering rates on the near and far sides of the moon are essentially consistent, laying a solid basis for the establishment of a globally unified lunar chronology system.

Chinese scientists have, for the first time, confirmed that the impact cratering rates on the near and far sides of the moon are essentially consistent, laying a solid basis for the establishment of a globally unified lunar chronology system.

China ranks first in the world with 15 World Natural Heritage sites and four mixed natural and cultural sites, according to a recent report.

Feel the festive cheer as sparkling lights and Chinese New Year decorations are popping up all over the city of Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province.

A group of Chinese white dolphins, with an estimated number of about 30 to 50, was spotted in waters southwest of the island province of Hainan during a special investigation, marking a relatively large number of this species in the area in recent years.

China's first space industry-developed electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft completed its maiden flight in southwest China's Chongqing on Friday.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visited an information technology (IT) innovation park in Beijing on Monday morning.

Thanks to nearly 40 years of conservation and breeding efforts, the Endangered Animal Protection Center of Gansu Province in northwest China has made significant progress in protecting the Przewalski’s horse, the world’s only remaining wild horse species and a first-class protected animal in China.

The world’s longest-span rail-road hybrid girder cable-stayed bridge marked a new milestone on Wednesday as its No. 6 main tower was topped out in Zhoushan, east China’s Zhejiang Province.

As the Spring Festival draws near, red lanterns are hung throughout Jimo ancient town in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, wrapping the town in a joyful, festive atmosphere.

China’s largest-capacity and fastest domestically designed aluminum-alloy twin-hulled high-speed passenger ship, Beiyou 36, was put into operation in Beihai, south China’s Guangxi, on Thursday for the Spring Festival travel rush.

The first batch of daily consumer goods duty-free shops for island residents in south China's Hainan Province is scheduled to open on Feb. 11, 2026, according to a press conference on Friday. The initial rollout will include five shops—three in Haikou, one in Sanya, and one in Danzhou.

China's rural online retail sales reached a record 3 trillion yuan (about $431.22 billion) in 2025, representing a year-on-year increase of 6.7%, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday.

China's domestic gold production in 2025 reached 381.339 tonnes, up 1.09% YoY, while gold consumption stood at 950.096 tonnes, with annual investment gold levels overtaking jewelry consumption for the first time, data from the China Gold Association showed on Thursday.

China had 1.125 billion internet users as of December 2025, with the internet penetration rate surpassing 80%, according to a report released on Thursday.

China is planning to launch its Xihe-2 solar exploration satellite to the previously unexplored Sun-Earth L5 Lagrangian Point – approximately 150 million km away from Earth – between 2028 and 2029 for solar probing and space weather monitoring, according to the project's latest seminar.

China's Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday hosted the first of a 2026 series of events aimed at encouraging overseas exporters to sell to the Chinese market.

Hungary and China on Wednesday jointly issued a commemorative stamp series titled "National Treasures: Traditional Hungarian and Chinese Instruments" for the upcoming Chinese New Year.

Cars no longer have to be built on a traditional assembly line. In China, production is increasingly organized around what are known as "manufacturing islands."

China on Thursday introduced a zero-tariff policy on certain imported goods for consumption by residents in the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP).

Lichun, or Beginning of Spring, the first of the 24 solar terms on the Chinese lunar calendar, falls on February 4 this year, ushering in the official start of spring as nature stirs back to life after winter.

China is expected to basically establish a system of standards for the low-altitude economy by 2027, and by 2030, there will be more than 300 standards for the low-altitude economy, and a structurally optimized, advanced, reasonable and internationally compatible standards system will be formed.

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday the international community is quite clear about who is seeking to seize the Panama Canal, and relevant remarks by the U.S.