Hold your breath and get ready to be wowed by the breathtaking ocean views as you glide over northeast China's Dalian on a scenic cable car ride.

In pics: Qinghai Guide National Geopark, located in NW China's Qinghai Province, lies in the upper reaches of the Yellow River valley and is renowned for its magnificent Danxia landforms.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday that France has formally recognized the Palestinian state, joining Britain, Canada, and Australia, in an attempt to pile pressure on Israel as it presses on with its military operation in Gaza.

The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, on Monday conducted 300 billion yuan (about $41.2 billion) of 14-day reverse repos, in the first such operation since it adjusted the tool's bidding rules last week.

Chinese scientists have developed a 1.3-mm-wide magneto-ultrasonic tiny robot that can wirelessly detect and regulate environmental parameters such as force, vibration, viscosity, and temperature, creating potential for more accurate drug dosing and in-situ physiological monitoring.

A Chinese space-tech lab has unveiled a lunar brick maker that turns moon dust into bricks, the world's first proof-of-concept machine of this kind.

An international telescope collaboration has unveiled new and detailed images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, revealing a dynamic environment with changing polarization patterns near the black hole. The results were published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Beautifully captured from an aerial point of view, the Qingtian interchange project on the G35 Jinan–Guangzhou Expressway in Yuexi County, east China's Anhui Province, is nearing completion and will soon open to traffic, becoming a key transportation hub connecting the surrounding regions.

China's one-year loan prime rate (LPR), a market-based benchmark lending rate, came in at 3% on Monday, unchanged from the previous month.

China's coal-rich Shanxi Province achieved a record coalbed methane output of 9.81 billion cubic meters in the first eight months of this year, already exceeding the total output of 2022 and accounting for 81.3% of the country's total, according to the provincial statistics bureau.

China's coal-rich province of Shanxi reported more than 862 million tonnes of raw coal production in the first eight months of 2025, marking a 5.2% year-on-year increase, according to local authorities.

The Chinese Navy said Monday that carrier-based aircraft J-15T, J-35, and KongJing-600 have successfully completed their inaugural electromagnetic catapult-assisted takeoff and arrested landing trainings on the Fujian aircraft carrier.

Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in E China's Zhejiang launched its first China-Europe Arctic container express route on Mon, marking the first time the port has extended a route to the Arctic Ocean and providing strong support for foreign trade enterprises to expand into new international logistics channels.

In pics: Starry sky in NE China's Heilongjiang.

China on Monday activated a Level-IV emergency response in the provinces of Guangdong, Hainan, and Fujian as Typhoon Ragasa — the 18th named storm of the 2025 Pacific typhoon season — intensified into a super typhoon on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.

Chinese researchers have recently discovered a new species of the Sarcosporaceae family during a field survey at the Damingshan National Nature Reserve in S China's Guangxi, naming it Plectania damingshanensis, according to a study recently published in the mycological journal MycoKeys.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday announced the Commission's proposals for a 19th package of sanctions on Russia.

The 2025 aviation open-day activities of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force and the Changchun Air Show began on Friday in Changchun, NE China, showcasing the air force's latest development achievements through dynamic aerial performances and static exhibitions.

A total of 42,435 foreign-invested enterprises were established on the Chinese mainland from January to August, increasing 14.8% year on year, the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday.

In pics: Vibrant harvest scenes on sunny days in early fall as villagers dry a rich variety of crops under the blue sky in Shexian, Anhui province.

China has established the world's largest ecological and environmental monitoring network during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), spanning over 33,000 monitoring stations, covering all cities at the prefecture level and above, key river basins, and jurisdictional seas nationwide.

China's foreign exchange market maintained steady operations in August, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said on Friday. The cross-border receipts and payments of non-banking sectors — including enterprises and individuals — hit $1.3 trillion last month, up 8% year on year.

The People's Bank of China on Friday issued a set of gold and silver commemorative coins to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in NW China. The set, which consists of one gold coin and one silver coin, is legal tender in China.

Shanghai has seen a significant surge in the value of goods that underwent verification for tax refunds in the first eight months of this year, which reached 2.07 billion yuan (about $290 million), an 83% increase year on year and already surpassing last year's total: local customs on Friday.

China's largest Linear Fresnel solar thermal station was fully connected to the grid on Thursday in northwest China's Hami. With a total installed capacity of 1 million kW, the project can generate over 2 billion kWh of electricity annually, cutting CO2 emissions by more than 1.63 million tonnes.

Typhoon Mitag, the 17th typhoon of this year, made landfall in Shanwei City of S China's Guangdong Province on Friday afternoon, with the max wind force near its center reaching 25 m/s, according to the provincial meteorological observatory.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday held phone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.

China's civil aviation sector saw total transportation turnover surge 8% year on year to reach a historic high of 15.18 billion tonne-kilometers in August, data from the Civil Aviation Administration of China showed on Friday.

China's first set of 630℃ ultra-supercritical power generation units recently saw the delivery of its boiler tube, a significant breakthrough in the country's development of high-end power station materials.

China's total mileage of urban rail transit in operation had reached approximately 11,000 km by the end of 2024, ranking first worldwide, according to the Ministry of Transport. At present, around 100 million people across the country commute efficiently each day by rail transit.

Fishermen were photographed scouring the beach for mud snails and clams after the tide receded along the coast of E China's Jiangsu, adding a unique charm to the coastal town.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 jolted 143 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, with a depth of 10 km, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

From January to August 2025, China's border inspection agencies processed a total of 460 million entries and exits, up 14.9% year-on-year. Of the total, 220 million were mainland residents, marking a 15.4% increase, the National Immigration Administration.

The Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday in a statement that it began conducting strikes on Hezbollah military targets in southern Lebanon.

DeepSeek, China's open-source large language model, was featured on the cover of Nature, highlighting its reasoning pipeline and marking a step toward greater transparency in AI.

The water quality of the Yellow River's main stream has remained stable at Grade II in the country's five-tier water quality system for three consecutive years since 2022, marking a significant environmental milestone for the nation's second-longest river: Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

A pilot offshore photovoltaic demonstration project is being advanced steadily at the sea area of Changli County, N China's Hebei Province, with a designed installed capacity of 1.8 million kilowatts.

Chongqing's Wuli Town in SW China, home to about 5,300 mu (about 353.33 hectares) of paddy fields, has recently entered the rice harvest season.

In a breakthrough for bio-inspired robotics, a team of Chinese engineers has designed a robot named RoboFalcon2.0, which flaps its wings and is capable of autonomous takeoff, achieving controlled flight through a novel reconfigurable mechanism, according to a study published in Science Advances.

Chinese researchers have identified new landslides on the Moon that have formed since 2009. The primary trigger of such landslides was seismic activity originating within the moon, or "endogenic moonquakes," rather than asteroid impacts: article published in the journal National Science Review.

Asteroid 2025 FA22, one of the largest of its kind to approach Earth this year — similar in size to a large skyscraper — passed by safely on Thursday, according to scientists.

The Israeli military said it opened an additional route for 48 hours that Palestinians could use to leave Gaza City as it stepped up efforts since Wednesday to empty the city of civilians and confront Hamas militants.

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a mutual defense agreement on Wednesday in the Saudi capital Riyadh, under which any attack against either country will be considered "an aggression against both," the Saudi Press Agency reported.

Like cute, wiggling caterpillars, these driverless SkyShuttle trains weave their way through the city of Chongqing in southwest China.

A dreamy and romantic scene unfolds at the Luhun Reservoir in Luoyang, C China's Henan, where a sea of ​​sunflowers blooms against the backdrop of an orange sunset.

Chinese researchers have discovered Sinosenecio yaanensis, a new species in the tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae), in Tianquan County of Ya'an, SW China's Sichuan Province. This plant grows in the humid, shaded forest understory at an altitude of 1,500-1,600 meters: study in the journal PhytoKeys.

The use of AI could boost global trade by nearly 40% by 2040 and generate substantial global GDP increases of 12 to 13%, said the WTO in its 2025 edition of the World Trade Report on Wednesday.

The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday decided to lower the target range for the federal funds interest rate by 25 basis points, the first rate cut since December 2024.

Ren Yuzhong, vice president of China's prestigious Peking University, has voluntarily surrendered himself to authorities and is being subjected to a disciplinary review and supervisory investigation for suspected severe violations of discipline and law, an official statement said on Wednesday.

A new study by Chinese researchers has revealed how fast theropod dinosaurs could run during the Cretaceous period. By analyzing fossilized tracks, they identified the fastest-known Cretaceous theropod, which could reach speeds of up to 45 km per hour: study in Science China Earth Sciences.