China launched a Long March-8A carrier rocket on Friday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a new group of internet satellites into space.

People pay tribute to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the death of Dr Sun Yat-sen at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu Province, on March 12, 2026. Photo: VCG

As the country contributing the largest and fastest increase in global greening, China accounts for one-quarter of the world's newly added green areas, according to statistics released by China's National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA) on Thursday, the National Tree Planting Day.

"Inside our company we also use OpenClaw. I think it is just an exploration in the digital AI field. It can do something interesting, but it lacks breadth, and its security and fundamental risks have not been resolved. The current version is only a playable version and it isn't yet ready for real commercial or production use," He Xiaopeng, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) and chairman of Chinese electric vehicle maker XPENG, told the Global Times in an exclusive interview on Wednesday when asked about his view on the open-source AI agent OpenClaw, also known as "crayfish."

Many Chinese patients facing life-threatening illnesses have long been traveling hundreds or even thousands of kilometers to seek treatment at top hospitals in big cities like Beijing or Shanghai. Yet for Li Yingshan from Qujing in Southwest China's Yunnan Province whose mother was up to an as urgent situation, the journey has become shorter and easier.

A research team of the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently studied two lunar meteorites, revealing for the first time a magma recharge event on the moon about 3 billion years ago. The finding provides evidence for the moon's late-stage thermal evolution, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Thursday.

Legislation on prepaid elderly care services should be improved to enhance senior citizens' sense of security in elderly care, Jia Yu, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), president of the Shanghai High People's Court, told the Global Times during the two sessions this year.

Multiple deputies to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) and members of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) have made suggestions regarding how artificial intelligence could be developed, applied, and integrated to boost the country's development during this year's two sessions.

China's Tianwen-3 mission, which aims to carry out a Mars sample return, has achieved breakthrough results in relevant key technologies, mission chief designer Liu Jizhong, who is also a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) told reporters on Thursday. According to Liu, the main engineering line is currently carrying out the development of initial prototypes, with plans to transition into the formal prototype development phase this year, and all work is progressing smoothly.

Ninety-three Taiwan compatriots stranded in Istanbul, Turkey, due to the evolving situation in the Middle East have recently returned to the Taiwan island via transit in Shanghai in batches under the coordination of the Chinese Consulate General in Istanbul. This marks the largest group of Taiwan compatriots returning to Taiwan via the Chinese mainland since the escalation of the Middle East situation at the end of February. The Chinese Consulate General in Istanbul revealed more details in an exclusive interview with the Global Times on Wednesday.

A deputy to the 14th National People's Congress has called to make comprehensive sex education a formal part of China's national curriculum, with mandatory classes starting as early as kindergarten, the Global Times learned on Wednesday on the sidelines of this year's "two sessions."

Nearly 4.9 million visits were made by Taiwan residents to the Chinese mainland over the past year after the mainland introduced services to facilitate cross-Straits travel, with young people accounting for more than one-third of the total. Peace and development remain the shared aspiration of people on both sides of the Straits, said Xu Kewei, a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

China's robust development in the domain of deep-space exploration will see new advancement, as the country schedules the launch of its Chang'e-7 lunar probe this year to target the Moon's south pole in search of water ice - a critical resource for future sustained human presence and base construction on the Moon, the Global Times learned from the state-owned space program contractor China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) on Wednesday.

A US P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft transited the Taiwan Straits on Wednesday. The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) organized naval and air forces to conduct tracking, monitoring and alert operations throughout the process, and effectively handled the situation, a source told the Global Times on Wednesday.

Inside Beijing's conference rooms, the final draft of China's 15th Five-Year Plan is being scrutinized. A centerpiece of the top-level roadmap sets out a profound internal gear shift to transform the world's factory into a global innovation powerhouse by 2030.

The Indian government's Press Information Bureau (PIB) Fact Check unit has debunked a viral video purporting to show Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi speaking about informing Israel about the location of an Iranian ship.

“I kept hearing explosions over there. Baby, I was really scared to death,” said a father, who was rushing forward, scooping up his young daughter and kissing her forehead lightly. This was a scene witnessed by the Global Times reporters at around 2:30 am on Monday at the passenger exit of the arrivals hall of Beijing Capital International Airport. The little girl had just landed on a flight from Dubai and emerged from the arrivals exit.

With the starting pistol, the 35th Rossing National Marathon set off early Saturday morning in Swakopmund, Namibia. This long-running sporting event has become a vivid example of China and Namibia working together to build a China-Africa community with a shared future.

Chinese scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in mapping the Moon's chemical composition by building an AI-based model using the measured data from the first sample collected on the Moon's far side by the Chang'e-6 mission. The model, for the first time, integrates ground-truth information from the Moon's far side into a global chemical composition map, offering new insights into the Moon's asymmetry and the evolution of the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the Science and Technology Daily reported on Sunday, citing the Deep Space Exploration Lab.

Ten outstanding women have been honored in China for their remarkable contributions, with their meritorious deeds made public as the country celebrates International Women's Day on Sunday.

Editor's Note: Building a Healthy China by 2035 is a strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee, and the 15th Five-Year Plan period is critical to achieving this goal, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday, emphasizing the need for coordinated planning and accelerated implementation, the Xinhua News Agency reported. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while attending a joint group meeting during the fourth session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the top political advisory body, Xinhua reported. Building a Healthy China is a systematic project, Xi remarked. In the face of the people's growing and diverse healthcare needs, it is imperative to focus on major priorities and center closely on the tasks that benefit a wide range of people and have a significant impact on the overall situation. Human power and other resources should be concentrated, and effective measures be taken to improve the public health system, build up a quality and efficient medical service system, and promote healthy and positive lifestyles, so as to continuously achieve new progress, Xinhua reported. China has established the world's largest healthcare system, with medical and healthcare systems covering both urban and rural residents have been put in place. The average life expectancy of the Chinese reached 79.25 years in 2025. During the 14th Five Year Plan period (2021-25), the country advanced the Healthy China in a systematic way and continued to raise the overall health level of the population. The sky is bluer, the water is greener, and people around us are living longer and healthier lives. The steady improvement in people's well-being has helped safeguard both the physical and the mental health of the public.

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More than 33 million Chinese families with infants under the age of three have received childcare subsidies, Lei Haichao, head of the National Health Commission, said on Saturday at a press conference held on the sidelines of the annual session of the top legislature.

The average life expectancy of the Chinese reached 79.25 years in 2025, an increase of 1.32 years from 2020, Lei Haichao, head of China's National Health Commission, said on Saturday at a press conference held on the sidelines of the annual session of the top legislature.

China's human resources authorities are mulling measures to actively harness AI in creating new job opportunities and empowering traditional jobs, an official said Saturday.

The gross enrollment rate for senior high schools in China reached 92 percent in 2025, an increase of 7 percentage points compared with that in 2012, Education Minister Huai Jinpeng said on Saturday.

“Based on current knowledge and technological capabilities, achieving controlled nuclear fusion will take at least another 20 to 30 years,” Wang Mingdan, a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference who is also a nuclear industry expert, told the Global Times during the ongoing “two sessions.”

“Using the so-called allegations of 'forced labor' under the pretext of human rights, some disregarded facts, acted recklessly, and flagrantly trampled on international law and international trade rules. They engaged in political manipulation and economic bullying, attempting to use Xinjiang-related issues to contain China and hinder China's development. We firmly oppose this and will resolutely fight against it,” Wang Kuiran, deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) and Secretary General of the people's government of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, said at the ongoing “two sessions.”

Liu, a man from Shaoyang, Central China's Hunan Province, discovered several gold-colored pellets in the stomach of a home-raised duck he was butchering. After subjecting them to a flame test, the pellets did not discolor, leading to a preliminary identification as real gold, Jimu News reported. But local authorities said that professional verification is needed for further confirmation.

Guangdong's first “Slipper King” competition, initiated by a blogger, was held in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province. Contestants were required to present their slippers and share the stories behind them, Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

Mistaken for a black bear? A closer look turns it's actually a giant panda. This scene unfolded at the Wolong Shenshuping panda base under the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, featuring the panda cub "Su Jin Zai," who has been affectionately nicknamed the "little coal ball" by netizens due to its muddy fur.

Yang Xiugang, an agricultural technician from Southwest China's Guizhou Province, has captured widespread attention for instructing local farmers in rice cultivation techniques in Nigeria, the Beijing News reported.

Global Times reporters recently paid a visit to Ehang, the world's first company to obtain all four certifications for manned eVTOL aircraft. Featuring in-depth coverage of its R&D center, final assembly line and flight test base, this installment explores how China's low-altitude economy is moving from technological breakthroughs to large-scale commercialization, addressing a key question on many people's minds: How far are we from commuting to work by “air taxi”?

In the age of the digital economy, data has become the new oil.

At the container terminal of Zhangjiagang Port Area in Suzhou Port, East China's Jiangsu Province, container trucks shuttle back and forth on March 5, 2026, presenting a scene of bustling activity. Photo: VCG

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said on Wednesday in an exclusive interview with China News Service that Hong Kong will explore drafting its first five-year plan to better align with national development strategies, China News Service reported on Thursday. Lee came to Beijing to attend the opening meeting of the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC).

China targets economic growth of 4.5 percent to 5 percent this year and will strive for better in practice, according to a Government Work Report submitted Thursday to the country's top legislature for deliberation.

The 14th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, opened its fourth session on Thursday morning at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Ahead of the opening of the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress on Thursday, Qi Xiangdong, a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Chinese cybersecurity firm Qi An Xin Technology Group, said in an interview with the Global Times that it is not surprising that the US used the artificial intelligence (AI) technology in its strike against Iran.

A rare spring snow dusted Beijing on Wednesday, but the chill did little to deter the Chinese and foreign journalists waiting outside the Great Hall of the People. Hours before the doors opened for first press conference of the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), the line was already winding down the steps—a testament to the gravity of this year's "two sessions."

The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, China's top political advisory body, opened its annual session on Wednesday in Beijing, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Science and technology contribute to more than 64 percent of China's agricultural output growth, particularly in key areas like the seed industry and mechanization, a Chinese academician in agricultural expertise said during a question-and-answer session at the Members' Corridor group interview of the fourth session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday.

China's confidence to open up its quantum computing service to the world and to export components of quantum computers to Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner countries stem from a self-controlled and integrated industrial chain, a senior Chinese quantum computing scientist told the Global Times in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of China's annual "two sessions."

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities' stubborn pursuit of "Taiwan independence" by relying on the US, and their repeated attempts to ingratiate themselves with Washington even at the cost of sacrificing the long-term interests of Taiwan residents and undermining the island's economic development prospects, will ultimately make themselves "fish on the chopping board" to be carved up and a "cash machine" to be exploited, Zhang Han, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said at Wednesday's regular press conference, when responding to a media inquiry on reported remarks by the US President Donald Trump claiming that Taiwan had stolen the US chip business while relying on the US for protection.

When asked to comment on the popularity of the historical drama Swords into Plowshares on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, which has sparked widespread discussion, Zhang Han, spokeswoman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Wednesday that the attention and debate surrounding the drama's storyline and the history behind it fully reflect that peace is a shared aspiration of compatriots on both sides.

Roughly one hour before the first press conference of China's "two Sessions" of 2026, some 200 Chinese and foreign journalists had already formed a long line outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing where the event is held. Despite the lingering early-spring chill, a palpable sense of excitement rippled through the crowd as reporters eagerly anticipated clues about the world's second largest economy's development plan.

Ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday local time on protecting children in armed conflict, Iranian Ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani denounced Washington as “deeply shameful and hypocritical,” accusing it of calling for child protection while carrying out airstrikes on Iranian cities. The meeting later, chaired by US First Lady Melania Trump, sparked online outrage as an airstrike by the US and Israel had killed at least 165 schoolgirls and staff at a girls' school in southern Iran.

A “blood moon” casts its glow over Beijing on March 3 as the only total lunar eclipse of 2026 coincided with the Lantern Festival, adding a rare touch of romance to the traditional Chinese celebration. Photo: VCG

On March 3, which marks the 13th World Wildlife Day, China's National Forestry and Grassland Administration released a report saying that the country has seen a notable improvement in the quality of wildlife habitats. More than 80 percent of the country's nationally protected terrestrial wildlife and wild plant species are now under effective protection, and overall populations of wildlife and wild plants are growing steadily.

Fossils of a large omnivorous multichisel-toothed lizard have been discovered recently in the Late Cretaceous strata dating back more than 70 million years in the Ganzhou Basin of East China's Jiangxi Province. The species has been named Heterodon fangii.

China's Yangtze River Delta — a major economic engine in the east of the country — plans to open five new high-speed railway sections within the year. The move comes amid expectations that the region's 2026 rail investment will exceed 130 billion yuan ($18.82 billion).

Chinese authorities on Tuesday warned of the security risks of an open-source project OpenClaw and urged government agencies to exercise extreme caution, given its rapidly rising downloads from Chinese IP addresses and the fact that views of Chinese-language documents have exceeded those of all other non-English languages since January.

As the US Israeli military operation against Iran entered its third day on Monday, fighting and mutual retaliatory attacks intensified, with rising casualties on all sides and growing risks of a wider regional war. Amid the tense situation, China has intensified diplomatic efforts.

As the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 opened in Barcelona on Monday, the Fira Gran Via buzzed with a shared vision of an AI-driven future. A palpable "China momentum" drew significant attentions at the halls, alongside Google's generative AI demos and Samsung's cohesive Galaxy S26 ecosystem. From AI-installed terminals to advanced humanoid robots, these high-tech products from China showcase that China's progress toward high-level technological self-reliance has reached a new milestone.

China's first intelligent fine-tuning equipment for ballastless track was officially put into operation on Monday, marking a leap from manual labor to intelligent and digital construction in turnout fine-tuning, Science and Technology Daily reported.

The second group of 58 Chinese nationals, including two Hong Kong compatriots, arrived safely in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan from Iran in the early morning of March 2, Azerbaijani Chinese Overseas Association President Bao Lijun told the Global Times on Monday. According to Bao, about 100 more Chinese citizens are expected to evacuate to Azerbaijan from Iran. The association has deployed six buses to assist in transporting compatriots, Bao said.

China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on Monday released a batch of typical cases centered on people's livelihood, covering prominent issues including doxing — the act of illegally obtaining and disclosing others' sensitive personal information, with one suspect in the case obtained up to 600 million sets of citizens' personal information, according to CCTV News.

China on Sunday strongly condemned the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling the move "a grave violation of Iran's sovereignty and security."

In the blue waters of the South China Sea, a China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel was seen cruising at high speed when, from its port bow, a Philippine ship altered course to the right, cutting across the front of the Chinese vessel at close range, disregarding the risk of a potentially fatal collision. The scene comes from exclusive footage obtained by the Global Times on Sunday of the incident that occurred on Friday.

The first batch of 18 Chinese nationals from Iran had crossed the Astara border and are traveling by bus to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, Bao Lijun, president of the Azerbaijani Overseas Chinese Association, told the Global Times at around 11 pm on Sunday. He added that in about four hours, another roughly 50 Chinese nationals in Iran would also evacuate overland to Baku.

A new round of widespread rain and snow has begun sweeping across China since Saturday, with the Jiangnan region and South China expected to see frequent rainfall and localized heavy downpours, while northern regions are expected to experience continued below-average temperatures. Experts said the widespread heavy rainfall will help improve soil moisture and water storage, supporting early rice sowing, though severe weather may cause brief delays in early rice planting in central and eastern South China.

The Guangdong Archives (GPA) hosted a donation and exhibition event on Saturday, showcasing newly acquired historical documents detailing Japan's invasion of South China during World War II.

China's Ministry of State Security issued a notice on Sunday on its official WeChat account, warning that outsourcing data storage to third-party providers could pose hidden national security risks, following a reported cyberattack by overseas hackers on the database of a domestic e-commerce platform.

The turn of the year is not only a peak period for household consumption but also a key time for many workers to receive their wages and plan their expenses.

When you're running a business away from home, the biggest fear is running out of cash flow.

The official Weibo Community Observer account issued a notice on Friday stating that the personal account of Xiaopa, a stand-up comedian, had posted content inciting gender antagonism and fueling marriage and childbirth anxiety. For violating relevant laws and regulations, the account was ordered to be suspended, and the platform executed the suspension order.

A six-month-old baby monkey in Japan has gone viral online after treating a stuffed toy as its mother, capturing hearts around the world.

Gold consumption has recently been on the rise, and turning idle gold jewelry into “golden nail art” has become a Chinese New Year trend among young people, China National Radio (CNR) reported. The new trend has sparked heated discussions online.

The 2026 Chinese New Year celebrations in a small French village with a population of fewer than 11,000 were exceptionally vibrant, featuring dragon dances, lion dances, fireworks, kung fu performances, and traditional festival snacks, attracting scores of onlookers, according to a post by a Chinese netizen living in France, Jimu News reported.

A medical team from East China's Jiangsu Province performed auricular reconstruction surgery on a nine-year-old girl born without a right ear, using her own costal cartilage to craft a new ear with defined contours and a natural appearance, according to an article released on the WeChat account of the Jiangsu Province People's Hospital.

The Archives Collection of Tang Honglu Well Stele of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) was recently released in Shanghai, offering a comprehensive account of the stele's century-long journey from its erection and preservation in China to its plunder by and secret concealment in Japan, and establishing a solid, indisputable chain of evidence. However, after extensive investigations and interviews, Global Times reporters found that the path to restoring looted Chinese cultural relics remains fraught with challenges, seemingly trapped in a maze of silence and evasion due to Japan's persistent evasiveness over the years.

In the early hours of Thursday, a 24-year-old woman from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region gave birth to quintuplets — one boy and four girls — at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University after a relay effort by more than 20 medical staff. Mother and babies are safe, Hubei Daily reported. Hospital obstetrics director Li Jiafu, with nearly four decades of experience, said it was the largest multiple pregnancy he had ever delivered. Naturally conceived quintuplets are estimated to occur in about one in 60 million births worldwide.

The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Friday unveiled plans to conduct two crewed spaceflight missions and one cargo resupply mission in 2026, with astronauts from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions expected to undertake a space station mission. The agency also revealed that the landing missions of China's crewed lunar exploration program have been progressing smoothly, targeting the execution of the country's first crewed Moon landing before 2030. And one Pakistani astronaut is scheduled to carry out a short-term mission aboard the China Space Station serving as a payload expert.

A suspected gunman, surnamed Lin, who changed disguises 11 times before and after shooting a 65-year-old Taipei aesthetic medical clinic boss, surnamed Hsiao, got arrested by police on Thursday, with all the six of his accomplices taken into custody. Hsiao was shot and wounded in the leg during a post-Chinese New Year back-to-work ceremony on February 21, with two employees also injured, local media outlets including China Times and ETtoday reported on Thursday.

Is the Spring Festival lantern fair not only for viewing, but also for playing? The 2026 Tangshan Nanhu Spring Festival Lantern Festival, which took place in North China's Hebei Province, uses a full array of AI technologies to give the traditional lantern fair creative flourish. Visitors can experience the marvelous collision of technology and Chinese New Year festivity in a world of light and shadow.

By the end of 2025, courts nationwide had sentenced more than 41,000 individuals repatriated from northern Myanmar for their involvement in telecom fraud; the notorious Ming and Bai family criminal gangs based in northern Myanmar have been completely dismantled, the Global Times learned from China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) on Thursday.

Chinese courts have concluded the trials of two major criminal groups based in northern Myanmar involved in telecom and online fraud, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Thursday.

The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and other organizations released a report on Thursday, revealing how the US uses technological hegemony to harvest global virtual currency assets. According to incomplete statistics, between 2022 and 2025, the US confiscated virtual currency assets worth over $30 billion through various cases worldwide. Notably, the Chen Zhi case alone accounted for $15 billion in confiscated assets, representing 50 percent of the total.

Good news from a hospital in East China during the just-concluded Spring Festival holidays has drawn widespread attention online and trended on social media platform Weibo – one of the conjoined twin girls who underwent separation surgery 28 years ago has now become a mother.

Chinese researchers have achieved the world's first successful treatment of a liver failure patient using ex vivo perfusion with a six-gene-edited pig liver, preliminarily confirming the safety and efficacy of the technique and providing a new strategy for the clinical treatment of end-stage liver disease, including as a bridging therapy before liver transplantation, China Science Daily reported on Wednesday.

Japan has no historical or legal standing to interfere in or comment on the Taiwan question, nor any position to intervene in it whatsoever. Sanae Takaichi repeatedly hypes up Taiwan Straits issues in a calculated move to divert domestic contradictions, shift public attention away from problems at home, and stir up populism in Japan, all to serve her own political self-interest.

After video clips of "two people beat up a girl in public" in a county in Central China's Henan Province went viral and attracted public roar over the violence in recent days, local government released updates of the case late Tuesday, saying the two suspects have been arrested.

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities in Taiwan have come under intense public backlash after US President Donald Trump's tariff measures were ruled illegal by the US Supreme Court and he subsequently announced a new 15-percent tariff hike on imports, sparking growing anxiety on the island over whether the much-touted talks had been “for nothing.” As uncertainty over US tariff policy deepens, Taiwan businesses are increasingly worried about rising costs, shrinking profit margins and potential supply-chain disruptions, with some netizens warning that blindly following Washington could ultimately sell out the island.

An official from China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said on Tuesday that China is currently facing intensifying and multi-dimensional risks of technology leakage, and that procuratorial authorities will safeguard the country's technological and economic security in accordance with the law.

China Central Television unveiled application scenarios and released more details of China's first unmanned cargo aircraft - the "Tianma-1000" on Tuesday, noting that the aircraft is capable of adapting to high-altitude complex terrain, achieving ultra-short takeoff and landing, and swiftly switching between cargo transport and airdrop mode.

Ningde, South China's Fujian Province, is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the sea on one. Where mountains and ocean meet, local people have long nurtured a bold and adventurous spirit. Sun Wufei is a local visually impaired massage therapist. Seizing the business opportunities brought by the railway, he returned to his hometown to start his own venture. Beginning with just three massage beds in his small house, he has since opened four branch stores, providing jobs for more than 30 people with visual impairments.

Nearly 200 Siberian tigers at the Siberia Tiger Park in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province have been put on a rotational “intermittent fasting program” to improve their health, the park confirmed with the Global Times on Monday, as the tourist attraction witnessed a massive influx of visitors during the Spring Festival holidays with a corresponding surge in tiger feeding activity.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council on Monday sent a congratulatory message to the Chinese delegation for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, commending the delegation for achieving its best-ever results at an overseas Winter Olympic Games - a total of 15 medals, including five gold, four silver and six bronze, according to Xinhua News Agency.

Nineteen people were killed, and 25 others were injured when a passenger bus en route to Kathmandu from Pokhara plunged into the Trishuli River in central Nepal's Dhading district early Monday, according to local administration.

At the break of dawn, 58-year-old Liu Zuqiong pedaled her tricycle to the “common prosperity market.” At her designated stall, she deftly unloaded the fresh vegetables she had grown, arranging them neatly. The soft glow of the stall lights illuminated her face, reddened by the cold, and reflected the stability and anticipation in her eyes.

There were no immediate reports of casualties or house collapse after a magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck Yuli County in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Monday, local authorities said.

Eighteen people were killed when a passenger bus en route to Kathmandu from Pokhara plunged into the Trishuli River in central Nepal's Dhading district early Monday, according to local administration.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit Yuli County, Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, at 12:12 p.m. Monday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).

After a folk activity of Mazu parade held in Shishi village, Zhanjiang in South China's Guangdong Province has attracted widespread attention from netizens, the local government published a statement on Sunday, addressing online speculations including capital intervention to replace a girl with a boy in the rituals, and the sedan chair could not be lifted.

China's freeski icon Gu Ailing successfully defended her Olympic gold medal in the women's halfpipe at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Sunday.

At a small shop in Baishamen Park, Haikou, South China's Hainan Province, Xie Min (Nicki Johnson) is painting a horse totem onto a piece of coconut shell. “Hey, this horse is really unique!” A blonde foreign visitor leaned over the counter, picking up one of the coconut-shell handicrafts for a closer look.

The People's Government of Ciba town in Jia county, Pingdingshan, Central China's Henan Province, released an official statement on Saturday in response to online reports that a 15-year-old girl had been beaten in the street, according to xinhuanet.com.

Mist shrouds Baishanzu National Park in Lishui, East China's Zhejiang Province, as a fine drizzle falls. "In weather like this, I have to check on those fir trees in person to put my mind at ease," says Lan Rongguang, head of the Baishanzu Protection Station at the Qingyuan Conservation Center within the Qianjiangyuan-Baishanzu National Park candidate site. He picks up his well-worn wooden walking stick, smooth from years of use, and heads into the forest.

Inside the Guangxi Embodied Intelligence Data Collection and Testing Center at the Liuzhou Robot Industrial Park in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, blue indicator lights flashed beneath the forehead of a 1.76-meter-tall industrial humanoid robot, their glow mingling with the red radiance of lanterns reflected on the glass curtain wall.

Chinese authorities on Friday launched a Level-IV emergency response for major meteorological disasters.