Placing a chrysanthemum before the monument, wiping clean the names of the fallen heroes engraved on the wall, using AI technology to bring a revolutionary couple into a tender embrace... As the Qingming Festival approaches, various commemorative events have been held across China to pay tribute to martyrs and unsung heroes who have demonstrated extraordinary courage and righteousness.

China's Supreme People's Court on Thursday released a set of typical cases highlighting the strict punishment of crimes involving the trafficking of women and children. The number of such cases has shown an overall downward trend as a result of China's decade-long efforts to combat these crimes. In 2025, the number of trafficking cases dropped by 77.95 percent compared with the peak in 2012, indicating that the crimes have been effectively curbed, according to the court's official WeChat account on Thursday.

A Chinese industry association issued a statement on Thursday condemning the growing misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including face-swapping, voice cloning and unauthorized use of actors' images and audio for AI model training.

Though it was winter vacation, 17-year-old Yangyang started his day early, walked to the supermarket on his own and returned home to whip up a bowl of seafood noodles for his younger sister.

Four people trapped in a coal mine accident in north China's Shanxi Province were confirmed dead by local authorities on early Thursday.

In response to the problem of nationally protected birds being illegally hunted and sold, from August to December 2025, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) deployed organs nationwide to carry out the Ping'an Yuanye-2025 (Safe Wilderness-2025) special campaign. During the operation, a total of 9,705 criminal cases were filed and investigated, of which 3,562 were cases involving harm to birds, an MPS official revealed at a special conference on Wednesday which marks the International Bird Loving Day.

A surge in mosquito activity across China has triggered fresh public concern, as health authorities elevated the classification of two major mosquito-borne diseases — dengue fever and Chikungunya — to Class B notifiable infectious diseases starting on Wednesday, warning of heightened risks as the insects appear earlier than usual this year.

Stronger exchanges and dialogue between the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang will have an important and positive impact on safeguarding peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits and promoting the peaceful development of cross-Straits relations, Zhang Han, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Wednesday when asked what message the mainland hoped to convey through the invitation to Chinese Kuomintang Chairperson Cheng Li-wun to visit the mainland.

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities, in pursuit of political self-interest, have persistently manipulated the judiciary and suppressed and persecuted political opponents. Such retrogressive actions have already sparked growing opposition from more and more people on the Taiwan island. Right and wrong, and where justice lies, are clear in the hearts of the people, Zhang Han, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, gentle sunlight bathed Anxian Cemetery in suburban Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, where heroic Chinese pilot Wang Wei's cenotaph rests amid ringed pines and cypresses. His statue and monument gleamed with renewed clarity in the sun.

China will implement a set of guidelines on Wednesday to strengthen the crackdown on fraud in the country's universal basic medical insurance.

Chinese scientists have, for the first time, precisely measured the thermal conductivities of a single lunar soil particle from the Chang'e-5 mission, discovering that lunar agglutinates in the soil provide insulation in a vacuum comparable to high-performance synthetic aerogels, marking the lowest thermal conductivity ever reported for a natural material, the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU), Chinese Academy of Sciences, announced on Tuesday.

Two neighboring southern Chinese provinces – Guangdong and Hainan – are currently experiencing dramatically different weather conditions. On Tuesday, cities across Guangdong were hit by severe convective weather, including hailstorms and even tornadoes, while Haikou, the capital of Hainan Province, sweltered under a blistering heatwave, with temperatures reaching 37 C.

The fully domestically developed NORINCO LUCA large cargo unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully completed its maiden flight on Tuesday in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province. According to its developer from China's state-owned Norinco Group, it is now the largest logistics unmanned cargo aircraft in the world to have achieved a successful first flight, marking the arrival of China's first 7-ton-class fixed-wing "unmanned aerial heavy truck" in the low-altitude economy and expanding the range of potential applications.

Four people were killed and nine others were injured in a blast that ripped through a highway tunnel under construction in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Monday afternoon, local authorities said on Tuesday.

Authorities in Pingdingshan city, Central China's Henan Province, issued an investigation report on a case in which a woman claimed her uncle fraudulently registered a marriage using her deceased mother's ID. The news sparked public controversy.

Despite South China's Guangdong Province having officially ushered in summer, hailstorms have been battering the region. As of 12:00 noon on Monday, a total of 12 orange alerts for hail had been issued across the province, Chinese media outlet Southcn.com reported.

Chinese scientists have recently discovered fossils of a new species of ancient ray-finned fish that lived about 244 million years ago, which they have named P. huoae. The discovery is the first record of Ptycholepis in China, filling the previous deficiency of marine ptycholepids in Asia, media reported on Monday. The dating of the specimen also makes it the oldest known fossil of this genus in the world.

China's top court said on Monday that courts across the country have issued around 33,000 personal safety protection orders since the anti-domestic violence law took effect in 2016, as the law marks its 10th anniversary this year.

As Qingming Festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day) approaches and people mourn the deceased, the China Organ Donation Administration Center held a collective commemorative event for organ donors on Sunday, where AI-generated digital human footage of the donors touched the event participants.

China on Monday launched a Lijian-2 Y1 carrier rocket with three satellites onboard.

At dusk on a cool March evening in 2026, as the last rays of sunlight faded over the Gobi Desert, the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Zone came alive with anticipation. Kinetica-2 liquid-propellant rocket, developed by China's commercial space firm CAS Space, ignited with a thunderous roar around 7 pm, roaring to life for its maiden flight.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called for mobilizing the whole society to actively participate in afforestation, stressing that a sound ecological environment is shared by all and requires the joint efforts of all.

After a building that partially collapsed early on Sunday, local authorities in Hailin Township, Hailin city, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on Monday said the rescue efforts have completed, and all the nine people trapped were found, with two injured and seven killed, per a statement by Hailin authorities.

China consistently upholds respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries and opposes the violation of other countries' sovereignty or interference in their internal affairs under any pretext, Mao Ning, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday when asked for China's comment regarding US President Donald Trump's claim that "Cuba is next."

This is an "extremely unusual and serious case," Japanese Police Commissioner General Yoshinobu Kusunoki reportedly told an emergency meeting on Monday over the incident in which a Ground Self-Defense Force member intruded the Chinese Embassy in Japan.

The World Data Organization (WDO) held its first general meeting in Beijing on Monday, marking its official establishment.

Air China resumes direct flights between Beijing and Pyongyang on Monday.

China's domestically developed "Linghang," the world's largest-diameter high-speed-rail shield tunneling machine, has successfully completed the 11,180-meter underwater section of the Yangtze River crossing and made landfall in Taicang, East China's Jiangsu Province, according to People's Daily on Sunday.

The 2026 China Internet Media Forum opened in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province, on March 29. Hosted by the Cyberspace Administration of China, People's Daily and the cyberspace commission of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the forum is themed "Leveraging the leading role of mainstream media, unleashing the creativity of diverse stakeholders, and jointly building a prosperous online content ecosystem."

The AEP100 turboprop, independently developed by a research and development institute of Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC), has successfully completed full ground-tests. It marks China's first liquid hydrogen engine to meet megawatt-level full-performance standards, the Science and Technology Daily reported on Sunday.

Viral videos circulated online showed that more than 1,000 Japanese demonstrators gathered in Tokyo's Shinjuku district on Saturday to mark a local peace festival. Holding placards and glowing sticks, the people at the gathering chanted "Apologize to China" and "Prime Minister Takaichi, apologize," just a few days after a 23-year-old second lieutenant in Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, forcibly broke into the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo while carrying an 18-cm blade and threatened to kill diplomatic personnel on March 24.

At an exhibition held during the ongoing 2026 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) in Beijing, a range of brain-computer interface (BCI) products -- from specialized chips to rehabilitation systems -- drew large crowds.

Three people were killed and 23 others injured, nine critically, in a fire that broke out at a building near Qinxian North Street in Taiyuan, North China's Shanxi Province on Saturday evening, CCTV News reported on Sunday.

The China Manned Space Agency announced that it would solicit proposals for a space human research program starting April 1, targeting major strategic, fundamental, and forward-looking scientific issues related to the long-term healthy survival of humans during future space station flights and lunar landing missions.

Dr. Henry C. Lee, a world-renowned forensic scientist, died Friday at his home in Henderson, Nevada at the age of 87, according to a release from the University of New Haven.

The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, or NeurIPS, a leading global conference in machine learning and computational neuroscience, issued a public apology on Friday via its X account over a controversial policy in its 2026 submission handbook, soon after boycotts from several China's federations for technology professionals.

Students fly kites on the playground of a school in Suqian city, East China's Jiangsu Province on March 26, 2026. Photo: VCG

Two pandas play on a tree in Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Southwest China's Sichuan Province on March 26, 2026. Photo: VCG

As Qingming Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday honoring the deceased and marking the “Pure Brightness” solar term, approaches, some young people are planning to put a modern spin on the tradition by visiting the graves of famous historical figures, many set in scenic locations. What, then, draws people to the tomb of a historical figure?

“We are deeply saddened by this tragedy and have lodged solemn representations with the US side,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Friday in response to a case that a Chinese postdoctoral researcher recently died by suicide the day after being summoned for questioning and interrogated by US law enforcement officers.

“We plan to train more Chinese-speaking tour guides in South Korea and enhance reception services at popular tourist destinations for Chinese travelers,” Choi Hwi-young, South Korea's Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said in an interview with the Global Times in Beijing.

Token, a key concept in the artificial intelligence (AI) field that has recently been standardized in Chinese as "ciyuan," has become one of the most talked-about buzzwords among entrepreneurs and experts at the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum).

A travel alert advising Chinese citizens to avoid traveling to Japan popped up on many people's cellphones on Thursday, citing "constant deterioration of security environment for Chinese nationals in Japan" concern while referring to the extremely vile act of a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force member who broke into the Chinese Embassy in Japan.

In front of the PLA, there is no "Taiwan Shield," only "Taiwan Cage." The "Taiwan independence" armed forces seeking to resist like a cornered beast are doomed to destruction, Senior Colonel Jiang Bin, deputy director-general of the Information Office of the Ministry of National Defense and the ministry spokesperson, said on Thursday when addressing a question that Taiwan island is considering building a "Taiwan Shield" modeled on Israel's air defense system, how does the PLA assess such an anti-missile system and from a military perspective, does the PLA believe this anti-missile system can succeed. "Taiwan independence" is a dead end, and China's reunification cannot be blocked, Jiang stressed.

In response to foreign media reports claiming that Hong Kong police can now demand phone or computer passwords from people suspected of breaching the National Security Law (NSL) for Hong Kong, portraying the new rules as a “further crackdown on dissents,” a spokesperson from the Security Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) told the Global Times on Thursday that the reports are misleading, noting that law enforcement officers must apply to the court for a warrant and obtain judicial approval before searching electronic devices such as mobile phones.

China on Thursday launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket, placing two new satellites into space.

China's 307,000-ton new-generation very large crude carrier (VLCC) Empire Hope, independently researched, developed and designed by China, was delivered in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, on Wednesday. With indicators of performance reaching world-class standards, the vessel has further boosted China's global competitiveness in the construction of VLCC, CCTV reported on Wednesday.

Chinese and the Philippine law enforcement authorities have cooperated to deport a suspect surnamed Zheng, who is suspected of organizing others illegally cross national borders, according to a statement released on Wednesday by the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines via its WeChat account.

The sudden cardiac death (SCD) of Zhang Xuefeng, an online influencer and well-known tutor specializing in China's college entrance examinations, has triggered an outpouring of grief online while also drawing widespread attention to the heart health risks. Chinese medical experts say the condition is showing a worrying trend toward younger generations, often linked to high-risk factors such as chronic sleep deprivation, excessive fatigue and unhealthy lifestyles.

The National Natural Science Foundation of China released the country's top 10 scientific advances of 2025 during the opening ceremony of the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) Annual Conference in Beijing on Wednesday.

"Some people on the island, for their own political gains, are willing to act as pawns of external forces, disregarding the interests of Taiwan residents and pushing the Taiwan region into a dangerous situation," Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said on Wednesday. Zhu noted that their malicious nature and fawning posture have already been rejected by the public.

The world's first nanoscale micro-vibration laboratory, independently developed by China, has officially commenced operations in the Xiong'an New Area in North China's Hebei province, which could provide support for the independent development of high-end manufacturing sectors in China, Science and Technology Daily reported Tuesday.

Zhang Xuefeng, an online influencer and renowned tutor focused on college entrance exams, succumbed to sudden cardiac death in Suzhou at 3:50 pm on Tuesday, despite all-out rescue efforts, according to an obituary posted on his Sina Weibo account on Tuesday's evening.

China's High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), a major national scientific facility often dubbed a “super microscope” and giant “X-ray machine,” has recently opened its first global call for user research proposals. The move signals the project's shift from construction to preparations for full operation and marks a key milestone in the country's fourth-generation synchrotron radiation program, the Global Times learned from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, on Tuesday.

Walking into the venue of the Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting, before it officially kicks off on Wednesday, visitors are greeted by piano-playing robots. As their mechanical fingers rise and fall on the keys, the melody of Jay Chou's “Blue and White Porcelain” echoes gently through the exhibition hall. This scene of human-machine collaboration has become an intuitive display of technology at the venue.

China's top intellectual property regulator said on Monday it had completed its first-ever screening of over 1.3 million patents held by universities and research institutions nationwide.

Shandong Provincial Higher People's Court, entrusting the Tai'an Intermediate People's Court, delivered the second-instance verdict on Tuesday in the case involving appellants Zeng Xiaohai and Yuan Yonggui, and original defendants Lü Guangdong and Wang Xuyong for child abduction. The court approved the sentencing of defendant Zeng to death with a two-year reprieve, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property for the crime of child abduction, according to CCTV News.

A video showing a nearly one-meter-tall large bird leisurely crossing a road in Hunchun, Northeast China's Jilin Province, has gone viral on social media recently, sparking widespread discussions among netizens over the authenticity of the video. The Global Times confirmed with local wildlife protection authorities on Monday that the bird was indeed a vulture, known locally in Northeast China as "zuoshandiao."

From DeepSeek to Seedance 2.0 to OpenClaw, China's intensified push in artificial intelligence (AI) not only gained global attention, but also has become a major focus of heated discussions at the ongoing China Development Forum (CDF) 2026 that run from Sunday to Monday in Beijing.

A traffic accident occurred at around 7 am on Monday in Hezhang county, Bijie city, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, with preliminary confirmation showing that the accident has killed two students and injured another 14 students. The State Council Work Safety Committee has decided to supervise the investigation and handling of the accident, the CCTV News reported on Monday.

A Smart Dragon-3 rocket lifted off on Sunday in east China's Shandong Province, sending the satellite group CentiSpace 02 into the planned orbit.

As US and Israeli strikes against Iran rattle financial markets and send oil prices surging, over 80 leaders of the world's largest multinational corporations, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume, Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius and Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong, convened in Beijing on Sunday for the China Development Forum. The sheer density of corporate heavyweights in one room sends a clear message - as global economy feels on edge, the world's executives are increasingly looking to China to serve as a crucial anchor of predictability and certainty, analysts said.

Beijing's cyber police recently uncovered a large-scale criminal network engaged in “doxxing,” the illegal harvesting and online exposure of personal data. Authorities have cracked down on the illicit industrial chain behind the infringement of citizens' personal information in accordance with the law, CCTV News reported on Sunday.

China has contributed around 30 percent to global economic growth on average so far, and that share is likely to rise, Zheng Yongnian, dean of the School of Public Policy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told the Global Times on Sunday on the sidelines of the China Development Forum 2026, held in Beijing from Sunday to Monday.

China's development will remain very positive because China has taken the innovation route, prominent American scholar Jeffrey Sachs told the Global Times on Sunday on the sidelines of 2026 China Development Forum (CDF) that is taking place in Beijing from Sunday to Monday.

Police authorities in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, announced a major breakthrough in the long-standing case involving Zhang Weiping and others in child trafficking, following the arrest of the key suspect known as "Meiyi" or "Aunt Mei," whose real surname is Xie, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday.

A park in Chongming district, Shanghai, will host a "sleep challenge," where participants' only goal is to wake up naturally, with the highest sleep score receiving a 3,000-yuan ($436.5) prize, local media outlet Jimu News reported.

"Go and enjoy the blossoms, go and seek romance" — this is the spring break initiative launched by a college in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, which plans to grant a holiday from April 1 to 6 for all faculty, staff, and students.

A community in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu Province, has launched a weight-loss challenge dubbed "flab for beef," where participants can exchange one pound of lost flab for one pound of beef, with greater rewards for more weight loss – up to a maximum of 20 pounds per person, according to the official WeChat account of the People's Daily.

Yueyang Barbecue College in Central China's Hunan Province officially launched enrollment for its 2026 “academic qualification with professional skills” advanced talent training program, aiming to train formally qualified barbecue chefs through a one-month intensive program.

An on-the-spot investigation by Global Times reporters uncovered that Japan has even touted the looted Chinese cultural relics as "war trophies" of its militarism, with the notorious Yasukuni Shrine among the sites where they are displayed. Yasukuni Shrine enshrines Japan's imfamous class-A war criminals who symbolized Japan's war atrocities and militarism during World War II.

A local people's procuratorate in Xinxiang in Central China's Henan Province filed a public prosecution on Friday with the Xinxiang Intermediate People's Court against Shi Yongxin (formerly known as Liu Yingcheng), former abbot of Shaolin Temple, on charges of embezzlement, misappropriation of funds, bribery by a non-state functionary, and offering bribes, according to a statement published by the Xinxiang Municipal People's Procuratorate on Friday.

China's second domestically built large cruise ship was undocked in Shanghai on Friday, moving a step closer to trial voyages and final delivery as the country expands its push into the cruise tourism market.

China's State Council has approved Meishan City, located in Sichuan Province, as a national historical and cultural city, according to a notice on the website of the Chinese government released on Thursday.

China on Thursday said it is “shocked” by the remarks by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, who said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and he have authorized the Israel Defense Forces to kill any Iranian official without the need for additional authorization.

When US President Donald Trump visited Japan in October 2025, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi greeted him with a charm offensive. Through "praise, Nobel nominations and promises of investment in the US," Takaichi secured a pledge from the US president: "Anything I can do to help Japan, we will be there." Now that it is Takaichi's turn to visit Washington, the atmosphere is markedly different, largely because of the war in Iran, and it's the US that's asking for help.

The debate over whether AI-generated dramas could replace traditional productions has recently intensified after television drama producer Youhug Media unveiled two AI-generated performers, sparking concerns over portrait rights, industry ethics, and employment security.

Four flapping-wing drones developed by a research team at the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), which feature eagle, pigeon, butterfly and beetle imitations, have recently gained widespread public attention. Among them, the eagle-inspired flapping-wing drone achieved a single continuous flight time of 256 minutes, media reported on Thursday.

China on Wednesday issued a guideline outlining arrangements for pilot work to extend rural land contracts by an additional 30 years upon the expiration of the second-round contracts.

The Midu echoing, a national intangible cultural heritage folk music from Midu county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, is finding new life in the digital age, as a creative adaptation blending traditional melodies with contemporary rhythms ignites online engagement and cross-cultural participation over gesture dance challenges these days.

A China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel formation on Wednesday conducted a patrol in China's territorial waters of Diaoyu Dao.

China has rolled out a guideline to advance child-friendly development across society, aiming to better protect minors' lawful rights and interests and promote children's healthy, all-round growth, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Tuesday.

The Shenzhou-21 crew aboard China's orbiting space station on Monday completed their mission's second series of extravehicular activities (EVAs), including installing a space debris protection device for the space station, which a space expert said is a precaution to protect critical systems from debris that cannot be addressed by robotic arms.

With the final cast-in-place roadway slab poured, the upper deck of the Huanggang Road Yellow River Tunnel in Jinan, East China's Shandong Province was fully completed on Tuesday, marking the dual breakthrough of the world's largest-diameter underwater shield tunnel, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

As Beijing enters the peak pollen season starting Tuesday, the Chinese capital city's pollen prevention and control efforts have shifted toward "tech-enabled solutions," using a biological agent to create an "invisible mask" on high-pollen trees.

The 3rd Silk Road Global News Awards officially launched its submission call on March 16. The awards are hosted by the Belt and Road News Network (BRNN) and organized by the BRNN council chair, People's Daily.

The Chinese and US delegations held candid, in-depth and constructive exchanges and consultations in Paris from Sunday to Monday on economic and trade issues of mutual concern, including tariff arrangements, promoting bilateral trade and investment, and maintaining existing consultation consensus, Xinhua News Agency reported.

“Without an inclusive environment and a scientific review mechanism, these world-changing achievements might never have seen the light of the day,” Du Yanan, a professor at Tsinghua University, told the Global Times on Monday at a sideline event of the ZGC Forum, which is scheduled to be held from March 25 to 29 in Beijing. He highlighted these key factors behind Beijing's rise as a major hub for original innovation in China.

China's State Administration for Market Regulation has officially approved the establishment of a national technical committee to standardize satellite internet systems and services, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday.

After the China Central Television (CCTV) annual 3.15 Consumer Rights Gala spotlighted the so-called “AI poisoning” driven by a commercial technique known as generative engine optimization (GEO), some start-up companies in the GEO industry issued statements on Monday, vowing public compliance in AI search optimization.

The world's first Tibetan large language model and its application, DeepZang, has been officially unveiled in Lhasa, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. This model fills the gap in indigenous large language models at both the national and ethnic levels, while also facilitating the innovation and inheritance of Tibetan ethnic culture in the AI era, the company's chairman told the Global Times.

Shenzhou-21 astronauts complete second series of extravehicular activities

As of the end of 2025, over 1.33 billion people were covered by China's basic medical insurance, with the coverage rate remaining stable at around 95 percent.

China on Monday launched the Kuaizhou-11 Y7 carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, sending eight new satellites into preset orbits.

China successfully launched a remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Sunday.

The Strait of Hormuz, that slender 21-mile choke point where the Persian Gulf meets the open sea, has become the world's most expensive bottleneck as the war triggered by the US-Israeli attack against Iran progressed into the third week. Marking a new development to situation, US President Donald Trump in a social media post urged countries including China, the UK, France and Japan to deploy war ships to keep the strait "open and safe." This move drew sarcasm from Iran, with Iranian Foreign Minister commenting that "US is now begging others, even China, to help it make Hormuz safe."

China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) on Sunday released a set of typical cases on consumer rights protection, focusing on areas such as food and drug consumption on this year's World Consumer Rights Day, in a bid to effectively safeguard consumers' legitimate rights and interests through high-quality judicial action, and guide businesses to operate with integrity and in compliance with the law.

The Shenzhou-21 crew aboard the Tiangong space station has recently reported updates on their work, with “space tomatoes” yielding a bumper harvest, the China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Sunday.

China successfully launched a remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Sunday.