China’s agricultural drone fleet exceeds 300,000 units, ranking first in the world
China operates the world's largest fleet of agricultural drones, with more than 300,000 covering more than 460 million mu (30.67 million hectares) of farmland every year, CCTV News reported on Wednesday. Once used mainly for crop spraying, the aircraft are now deployed to monitor crop conditions and transport agricultural supplies and harvested products.
New growth drivers push China's industrial profits up 15.5% in first nine months of 2026
Profits of China's industrial firms above designated size increased 15.5% year-on-year to 6.03 trillion yuan ($904.7 billion) during the first nine months of 2026, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday. September itself witnessed a 14.4% year-on-year increase in profits.
Pan Shiqiang: A lifelong cross-disciplinary artist, capturing the world in painting
At 69, Pan Shiqiang has made his home at the Yuanshe Cultural Compound in Fushan, Yantai, keeping drawing steadily for thirty years. Witnessing new opportunities for traditional art in contemporary times, he stepped away from his career as a journalist and picked up the paintbrush, exploring endlessly across ink wash, oil painting and porcelain painting. To him, words chronicle the age while brush and ink give voice to his inner truth. Blending writing and art, he has forged a distinctive path of boundary-crossing art stewardship, merging tradition with innovation.
Chinese Defense Ministry responds to media report on China's third-generation nuclear submarine’s missile test
When asked to comment on Xinhua News Agency's first disclosure that China's newest-generation nuclear submarine had participated in a strategic missile test launch, a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson responded at a Thursday press conference.
China’s independently developed super-large-diameter shield machine is powering through the world’s longest undersea high-speed railway tunnel
Every day, the smartphone of Dong Bing, the chief mechanical engineer of Yongzhou Railway project, buzzes with messages from a machine working deep beneath the seabed. The real-time push notifications track almost every aspect of the operation of "Yongzhou," a 135-meter-long, domestically built super-large-diameter shield machine. Whether the cutterhead torque is abnormal, the segments are floating or the main drive oil and seal pressures remain within the safe range all determine whether the multi-thousand-ton "steel giant" can advance safely beneath the seabed.
China sees steady growth in domestic tourism in first 9 months of 2026
China's domestic tourism market posted solid growth in terms of both trips and travel spending from January to September this year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) said on Monday.
French supermarket cyberattacks highlight physical risks of hacking, China's state security authority warns
China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) on Wednesday warned that cyberattacks are no longer confined to stealing data in the virtual world, but can directly target physical systems and cause tangible damage, citing the recent cyberattack on French supermarkets.
China, Indonesia hold joint counter-terrorism training
The opening ceremony for the "Sharp Knife 2026" joint army counter-terrorism training between China and Indonesia was held in south China's Guangdong Province on Tuesday.
UN Security Council reform should address over-representation of developed countries: Chinese envoy
The ultimate goal of UN Security Council reform is to change the situation where developed countries are over-represented, a Chinese envoy said Thursday.
The 47th Baotu Spring Autumn Chrysanthemum Show runs from October 24 to November 23. With Baotu Spring Park as the main exhibition venue, it links Wulong Pool, Daming Lake and Huancheng Park, forming a chrysanthemum-viewing layout of “One Core Venue, Three Linked Parks”.
Chinese-US team identifies 237-m-yr-old amphibian that lived entirely in the sea
An international team of researchers from Chinese and US universities has discovered fossils of a new amphibian species dating back about 237 million years and confirmed that the animal, known as Gerrothorax maritimus, represents the only known amphibian in Earth's history capable of living entirely in the sea, the Global Times learned from the Geological Museum of Guizhou on Wednesday.