This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March. As one of its important starting points, Yudu County in east China's Jiangxi Province, a place best known as the starting point of the Long March by ...

China's tennis ace Zheng Qinwen said she was hungry for more achievements in her career after becoming the first Chinese player to win the China Open women's singles title on Sunday, describing the triumph as a first step toward realizing ...

Tourists climb the “cloud ladder" at the Mingtang Mountain Scenic Area in Anqing, East China's Anhui Province, on October 11, 2026. Photo: CNS Photo

Two enormous steel claws swung slowly through the air, plunged into a mountain of garbage and rose again carrying huge loads of waste. From behind a glass wall, the scene looked almost like a giant claw machine - except that ...

An attack on King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday afternoon has reportedly left 12 people dead and 309 injured, triggering reactions across the region and beyond.

A spectacular 3D light show illuminates ancient city walls. Visitors take the wheel of a tractor. A giant hydraulic press at a manufacturing plant demonstrates the precision of China's heavy industry. These are some of the experiences awaiting international city ...

The third China-Cambodia-Thailand Track II Dialogue, themed "Implementing the Fuxian Consensus and Consolidating the Foundation for Lasting Peace," was held in Shenzhen on Sunday, hosted by China Foreign Affairs University. Nearly 100 representatives from China, Cambodia and Thailand attended, including ...

China's Zheng Qinwen claimed the women's singles title at the 2026 China Open on Sunday, defeating Russia's Mirra Andreeva in the final.

The five cubs of a closely watched wild Siberian tiger family have begun leaving their mother in Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, offering a new glimpse into the animals' lives as habitat restoration supports local breeding.

A documentary revealing Japanese wartime atrocities, titled Inside Unit 731: Japan's Secret Human Experiments, produced by Singapore's mainstream English-language media outlet Channel NewsAsia (CNA), has received Singapore's national award for Best History Documentary at the 2026 Asian Academy Creative Awards ...

A 34-year-old Chinese photographer who went missing in Thailand has returned safely to China, his sister said in a social media post on Sunday. The case drew widespread attention in recent days after his sister published an online missing-person notice ...

The Chinese Embassy in Saudi Arabia said on Sunday morning that no Chinese nationals had been reported killed or injured so far, following an attack on King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday afternoon.

Thousands of visitors flocked to the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge during China's recent week-long National Day holiday, not simply to cross the world's highest bridge in southwestern Guizhou Province, but to stop and explore the surrounding area.

A type of moss discovered in a desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region can survive conditions that would kill most plants, including severe dehydration, intense radiation, extreme cold and Mars-like space environments.

China expresses sympathies to the Panamanian government and people in the affected region, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Saturday after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck Panama.

On October 10, the China Coast Guard (CCG) task group led by CCGS Xiamen conducted a rights-protection patrol in the territorial waters of China's Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands, according to WeChat account of CCG.

Exclusive footage obtained by the Global Times shows that a Philippine medical evacuation near China's Ren'ai Jiao on Thursday was carried out with China's permission and remained under China Coast Guard (CCG) supervision throughout the operation.

Lai Ching-te's speech disregarded facts, distorted right and wrong, misled the public and revealed ulterior motives, Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council spokesperson Zhang Han said on Saturday when asked to comment on Lai's remarks on cross-Straits relations in ...

China's Ministry of Justice announced on Saturday the official launch of "Lex Com," a nationwide platform designed to provide legal services to Chinese companies and citizens operating overseas.

How does an international engineer perceive China's green building? In September, 60 building professionals from China, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and beyond gathered in Beijing for the 2026 Capacity Building Workshop for Chinese and International Engineers (Green Building). In this episode of Voices ...

China and Pacific Island countries have always adhered to mutual respect and equal treatment though they differ in natural endowments, history, culture, and social systems, said Liu Haixing, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central ...

China aims to return samples from Mars to Earth in around 2031, with the Tianwen-3 mission scheduled to launch around 2028, Zhang Jiajun, an associate research fellow at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wrote in ...

A joint counterterrorism exercise involving competent authorities of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states was held in Minsk, Belarus, from October 4 to 8, marking the first time Belarus has hosted the exercise since joining the SCO, with counterterrorism law ...

Several regions, in provinces including South China's Guangdong Province, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and North China's Shanxi Province, have announced autumn holiday schedules for second and primary school students. The breaks generally last three to four days, with some arranged ...

China launched a Long March-12 carrier rocket on Saturday from a commercial spacecraft launch site in the southern island province of Hainan, sending an internet satellite group into space.

A Chinese national was killed along with two local security personnel in an attack on a construction site in Nigeria's Kebbi State on Thursday, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday, citing local police.

China and the European Union (EU) reached a 16-point consensus spanning trade and investment, export controls, intellectual property rights and World Trade Organization (WTO) reform at high-level talks in Beijing on Thursday and Friday, marking tangible progress in efforts to ...

Two Chinese porcelain objects dating to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Kangxi period at the British Museum were allegedly damaged on Sunday after a bowl fell from its display shelf. The museum reportedly said in response that neither the shelf nor ...

China's Foreign Ministry on Friday slammed Japanese right-wing forces for using artificial intelligence (AI) to distort historical facts and whitewash Japan's crimes of aggression, calling on the international community to stay alert and reject such moves.

President of the Republic of Botswana Duma Gideon Boko will pay a state visit to China from October 12 to 17, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Friday, and spokesperson Mao Ning said the upcoming visit will elevate China-Botswana relations ...

A video recently posted online showed a bear hanging motionless near a fixture at a wildlife park in Linyi, East China's Shandong Province, prompting concerns that it was in danger. After visitors reported the incident, zoo staff members told them ...

Saturday marks World Migratory Bird Day. With the migration season in full swing, wetlands across China are stepping up protection using smart monitoring, wetland restoration and volunteer patrols, building safer stopover and wintering grounds for birds heading south.

Visitors to Wild Elephant Valley in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, have discovered an unusual line of souvenirs: notebooks, postcards, fridge magnets and gardening products made from elephant dung. Videos of the items recently drew attention online, with a sign ...

A taxi driver in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province, has won praise after returning 100,000 yuan in cash to a passenger, delivering the man's forgotten phone the following day, and then making a third trip to return a 10,000 yuan ...

A Chinese woman in Australia got more than she bargained for after spending A$50 ($34.70) on a secondhand money jar, only to discover dozens of currencies from around the world inside, turning the unusual thrift-store purchase into a small profit, ...

Shanghai Port has topped global container throughput for 16 straight years. Much of that moves through Yangshan Deep Water Port, 28 million+ TEUs in 2025. How does it stay both secure and fast?

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Friday firmly rejected relevant claims in the US Department of State's 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report, which downgraded Hong Kong from Tier 2 to Tier 3, calling the claims entirely unfounded ...

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Friday rejected Philippine claims about disruptions of a medical evacuation from a Philippine vessel illegally grounded at China's Ren'ai Jiao, stressing China will firmly respond to any malicious provocation and resolutely safeguard its territorial ...

AI should be used for good and to advance human progress, not to distort historical truth or whitewash Japan's wartime aggression, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Friday.

China firmly opposes and combats hacking activities in accordance with law, while also firmly opposing the spread of false information and the creation of various kinds of noise for political purposes, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Friday.

China's FAST telescope has helped uncover the first known primordial pulsar triple with a still-evolving companion star, according to a statement sent to the Global Times by the National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Chinese and ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday launched 11 Chinese-backed downstream projects worth an estimated 10.2 billion U.S. dollars at the Weda Bay Industrial Park in Central Halmahera, North Maluku. Prabowo also witnessed the park's first export of electric vehicle (EV) batteries ...

A Chinese envoy on Thursday condemned Japan's accelerating remilitarization at the United Nations, warning that it had become a major threat to regional peace and stability and urging Tokyo to fulfill its nuclear non-proliferation obligations.

Crime drama "Traces of Justice" topped China's National Day holiday box office, in a market that fell from a year earlier, with some analysts citing the absence of a blockbuster-scale title. The seven-day holiday frame ending on Wednesday generated 1.165 billion ...

Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut and deputy chief designer of the China Manned Space Agency, has said here that the country's space station will become a global research platform for scientists worldwide. Yang made the remarks at the ongoing 77th International ...

China on Thursday allowed the Philippine Coast Guard vessel 4409 to evacuate an injured person from a Philippine vessel illegally grounded at Ren'ai Jiao, permitting a small-boat transfer on humanitarian grounds, and the China Coast Guard (CCG) handled the operation ...

In the evening in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, the building housing an e-commerce livestreaming hub was brightly lit. In front of the camera, an Ethiopian host spoke briskly: "If you have been watching this little guy for 10 minutes and ...

As autumn sets in, a breeze sweeps across the Xiaohe National Wetland Park in Xiaoyi, North China's Shanxi Province. Reeds sway and waterbirds skim the surface, while small groups of residents stroll along the riverside paths, enjoying the refreshing air. On ...

Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao held a meeting with the European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maros Sefcovic on Thursday in Beijing, according to a statement released by China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM).

Former Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen again targeted the Chinese mainland in a speech at Stanford University on Wednesday, claiming that "cyberattacks, cognitive warfare, information manipulation, and economic coercion have become almost a daily occurrence," while linking the island's technological ...

All Russian government agencies are making relentless efforts to safeguard public health and safety and urging the public not to worry, the Russian Embassy in China said on Thursday, as concerns over a possible pathogen exposure at a Russian plague ...

China has on many occasions made clear its position on the current China-Japan relations, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Thursday, in response to a question about Japan's demand that China show "appropriate respect" to Prime Minister Sanae ...

The China-Laos Joint Support and Training Center at Ban Keun Airport in Laos and the China-Laos Friendship Aviation Academy officially began operations on September 29. Their opening has drawn widespread attention and fear-mongering by some foreign media outlets.

Five people in Heyuan, South China's Guangdong Province, developed rhabdomyolysis after eating wild Cyprinus carpio rubrofuscus (red-tailed carp) in April, with four meeting the clinical criteria for Haff disease, in what constitutes the second carp-associated cluster of Haff disease ...

China is ready to take this visit as an opportunity to work with Russia to deepen strategic communication, promote practical cooperation, and keep injecting new momentum of development into China-Russia relations in the new era, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao ...

The average size of monitored wild vertebrate populations worldwide declined by 73 percent over the past 52 years, while nature still shows the potential to recover when conservation action is sustained, according to a report released on Thursday by the ...

Can you imagine tourists nowadays using AI tools to search for and compare homestays in remote Chinese villages before having made the trip? In Guyuan, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, such a shift is helping villages move beyond the ...

Unit 7 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in Lianyungang, East China's Jiangsu Province, was successfully connected to the grid on Thursday, officially sending its first kilowatt-hour of electricity to the grid and laying a solid foundation for its subsequent ...

China has nominated Doctor Song Li to run for the position of director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning confirmed at a regular press briefing on Thursday.

A research team at China's Tsinghua University has successfully developed an operational nuclear clock, marking a major breakthrough in humanity's decades-long pursuit of more precise timekeeping and opening up new possibilities for applications ranging from satellite navigation to fundamental physics ...

Initially a fan of Chinese TV series, 19-year-old Zuura Zakirova is now a student of the Chinese language. Recently, the third-year Confucius Institute student at Kyrgyzstan's Osh State University performed a modern Chinese song and played the guzheng, a traditional Chinese ...

The Global Development Initiative (GDI) has played a key role over the past five years in revitalizing the global development agenda and promoting South-South cooperation, a Pakistani envoy has said. The initiative was proposed at an important time, bringing development back ...

China urges the relevant Dutch authorities to view objectively and rationally China's efforts to combat cyberattacks and stop making groundless accusations against China under the pretext of cybersecurity, a spokesperson for Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands stated, according to the ...

One more survivor of the Nanjing Massacre passed away on Wednesday, reducing the number of registered living survivors to 20, the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders said. Massacre survivor Guo Xiulan died at the age ...

As Japan prepares to revise its three security documents by year-end, including the National Security Strategy, plans have emerged within the Japanese government to mention nuclear submarines as an option for strengthening deterrence, Kyodo News reported on Tuesday, citing several ...

From the downfall of the notorious "four major families" criminal gangs in northern Myanmar to joint operations targeting fraud compounds in Myanmar's Myawaddy and the establishment of an international anti-fraud mechanism initiated by China, a major three-part documentary airing on ...

China and Russia maintain close exchanges and cooperation on the prevention and control of infectious diseases, including plague, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday in response to a question concerning a plague infection incident in Russia.

A documentary airing on the Chinese state broadcaster revealed further details in the case of Chinese actor Wang Xing, who was trafficked to a telecom fraud compound in Myanmar's Myawaddy region as the case previously attracted widespread public attention in ...

The moments when Chen Zhi, the ringleader of a major cross-border gambling and fraud criminal syndicate based in Cambodia and two other key members of the group were escorted back to China and had their hoods removed was disclosed in ...

In 1972, Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing arrived in the US following then US president Richard Nixon's visit to China, beginning one of the most recognizable chapters in people-to-people exchanges between the two countries, according to the Xinhua News Agency. ...

Russian Presidential Aide and Chairman of the Maritime Board Nikolai Patrushev will visit China from October 8 to 13. Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central ...

"Tourist marvels, local cuisine, educational activities for the kids, and a bit of tech... these are the key words for my family's trip to Datong," said 30-something Pan Li, a Beijing resident who just wrapped up a family self-driving tour ...

A foreign warship lost power when tracking the Zunyi, a Type 055 large destroyer of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, which was on a daily training exercise, a Chinese crew member unveiled on Wednesday.

DeepZang, China's first Tibetan large language model (LLM), has begun a new round of upgrades to enhance Tibetan-language artificial intelligence (AI) technology and advance the deployment of multilingual simultaneous interpretation, aiming to further integrate the model into public services, education ...

Television host Kevin Tsai from the island of Taiwan has drawn backlash after appearing at a Taipei mayoral campaign event for Puma Shen, a die-hard supporter of “Taiwan independence.” In its latest commentary, Jun Zhengping, a Sina Weibo account affiliated ...

A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnostic device made another appearance aboard China's space station recently, where it monitors the health of the taikonauts, CCTV News reported on Wednesday.

Indonesia's Air Force Chief of Staff reportedly told the public recently to be patient about the delivery of J-10 fighter jets from China, with an Indonesian media report saying the Chinese-made warplanes are expected to arrive in Indonesia within six ...

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announces: Russian Presidential Aide and Chairman of the Maritime Board Nikolai Patrushev will visit China from October 8 to 13. Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the ...

Actor and singer Nicky Wu from the island of Taiwan has drawn widespread attention after posting a video of himself waving the Chinese national flag at Tiananmen Square in Beijing to celebrate China's National Day. A baseball event that he ...

On brightly lit Qilou Old Street, vendors slice open pink wax apples, their juice sparkling under the lights. A drone captures traffic weaving across Haikou's cross-sea bridge, while elsewhere, women in ethnic attire craft traditional goods amid lush rainforests, and ...

China remains firmly opposed to US arms sales to China's Taiwan region, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday, stressing that the country's position is clear.

A stream of new occupations is emerging at the forefront of China's new technologies, industries and business models, mirroring industrial upgrading and improvements in people's livelihoods.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun on Tuesday condemned Philippine aircraft and vessels for intruding into airspace and waters under China's jurisdiction in the South China Sea, saying China's military and coast guard had acted legitimately in accordance with law.

People were randomly killed as ritual sacrifices, including one victim whose skull was found to have seven bullet holes. The second episode of a new serial documentary reveals how the Wei family, one of the so-called “four major families” in ...

A Chinese documentary has revealed details of a deadly shooting in Myanmar in which more than 20 Chinese nationals attempting to flee a telecom fraud compound were intercepted by armed Myanmar nationals and shot at close range with AK-47 assault ...

The China Air Transport Association (CATA) said Monday that China Eastern Airlines had secured evidence and filed a report to the police over an incident in which a China Eastern Airlines flight attendant knelt down to apologize to a passenger.

Sun Lei, China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on Tuesday delivered a rebuttal during the general debate of the UN General Assembly's Third Committee in response to Western countries, urging a handful of countries to stop fabricating and ...

The 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday adopted by consensus the draft resolution titled "Promoting accessibility for the full enjoyment of all human rights by all" proposed by China on behalf of 47 countries.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Monday called China an "important neighbor" and said Japan would advance its strategic relationship of mutual benefit, with China, while claiming that it would firmly "assert" its positions on issues including the East ...

For years, Yang Liangen saw strangers as a threat. After a series of break-in attempts at a 900-year-old temple in north China's Shanxi Province, Yang moved into the compound in 1997, sleeping behind its gates and guarding its rare sculptures ...

After key members of the so-called "four major families" in northern Myanmar, including Wei Qingtao and Liu Zhengqi, entered Chinese territory in October 2023, a special task force moved decisively to make the arrests. The entire operation lasted just 10 ...

On October 3, a Philippine C-208 aircraft illegally intruded into the territorial airspace over China's Huangyan Dao without approval from the Chinese government. The naval and air forces dispatched by the PLA Southern Theater Command (STC) tracked and monitored the ...

Researchers from Chinese and British institutions have developed a wireless charging system for new energy vehicles (NEVs) with conversion efficiency exceeding 98 percent.

Five years after China proposed the Global Development Initiative (GDI), its focus is shifting increasingly towards practical cooperation that addresses the priorities of developing countries, a senior UN official has said.

China's state television CCTV News on Sunday released rare footage of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Army's counter-drone units in combat-oriented training, highlighting laser weapons, integrated missile-gun systems and high-power microwave weapons as an "iron triangle" of anti-drone equipment.

China's Ministry of State Security warned on Sunday that some overseas organizations have entered ecologically sensitive areas under the guise of tourism or scientific research, or illegally collected human blood samples through purported medical testing to steal China's genetic resources ...

China has completed the main structure of its first offshore platform designed to inject carbon dioxide to boost natural gas recovery, CCTV News reported, citing China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).

Although called Tiangong, or "Heavenly Palace," China's space station is becoming less distant and more like home, as astronauts bring the comforting tastes into orbit.

As the host for this year's APEC, China stands ready to work with all parties for a fruitful APEC "China Year" and make new contributions to the economic growth of the Asia Pacific and beyond, a spokesperson for the Chinese ...

Chinese troops have completed their participation in Russia's Center-2026 (Tsentr-2026) exercise and begun withdrawing after joint training with forces from multiple countries wrapped up with a closing ceremony in Chelyabinsk on Friday, with the drills focusing on intelligence reconnaissance, command ...