• Push to make AI a resource for all hailed

    China's vision to turn artificial intelligence from an expensive frontier technology into a resource for affordable, widely accessible applications will bring huge benefits to more countries, businesses and ordinary people worldwide, said leading industry experts and company executives.

    2026-07-22 16:39:30
  • Foreign vlogger debunks flawed rhetoric behind western Xinjiang allegations

    Most of the so-called "evidence" behind Western allegations against Xinjiang is prefaced by words of uncertainty, like "This could be happening", "This may be happening", noted Fernando Munoz Bernal, a Colombian vlogger.

    2026-07-22 16:36:28
  • China’s Book Sunbathing Festival revives ancient Eastern seasonal wisdom

    China’s Book Sunbathing Festival revives ancient Eastern seasonal wisdom

    Did you know ancient Chinese rare books regularly get a gentle "sunbath" so they may be better preserved? As the summer heat sweeps across China, this centuries-old tradition is returning to libraries and cultural institutions nationwide. Celebrated on the sixth day of the sixth month of the traditional Chinese calendar, the Shaishu Festival, or Book Sunbathing Festival, is revived every year. Led by the National Library of China, dozens of provincial libraries and ancient book repositories open their most precious collections to open-air sunlight.

    2026-07-22 09:27:49
  • China urges Philippines to stop provocations in SCS amid ASEAN meetings

    China urges Philippines to stop provocations in SCS amid ASEAN meetings

    The ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meetings opened in Manila, the Philippines, on Tuesday, with the Philippines holding the ASEAN chairmanship this year. This follows dangerous provocations staged by Manila a day earlier in the waters near China's Ren'ai Jiao, which escalated tensions over the South China Sea issue. The trouble‑making on the eve of ASEAN meetings is no random clash: The Philippines aims to hijack the agenda of ASEAN's flagship diplomatic event, manufacture international public opinion against China, and leverage US‑led Western support to advance its political gambit regarding the South China Sea issue, which violates the core duties of the ASEAN rotating chair, Chinese experts pointed out.

    2026-07-22 09:09:01
  • Award riddled with legal defects and biased proceedings

    A recent joint statement by 14 countries, including the United States, Japan and the Philippines, has once again put the spotlight on the 2016 South China Sea Arbitral Award. The statement asserts that China's maritime claims lack a "legal basis" and reiterates that the decade-old ruling remains final and binding. While such declarations are framed as a defense of the rules-based international order, a closer examination of the 2016 award reveals foundational cracks that cannot be overlooked by repeating that narrative.

    2026-07-21 15:58:13
  • Closest potentially habitable ‘super-Earth’ identified, about six times the Earth-Proxima Centauri distance depicted in The Wandering Earth: Chinese netizen

    A discovery that caught the attention of Chinese netizens on Sunday was that astronomers have confirmed an exoplanet named GJ3378b, located within the habitable zone of a red dwarf star about 25 light-years from Earth, may possess conditions suitable for life, making it one of the closest potentially habitable worlds known to date, as reported by the Science and Technology Daily (STD).

    2026-07-21 10:45:57
  • International Moon Day highlights a new era of lunar exploration
  • Chinese FM to attend SCO meeting in Kyrgyzstan, hold talks with Kyrgyz leaders: spokesperson

    The Meeting of the Council of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States will be held in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, from July 23 to 24. During the meeting, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will exchange views with his counterparts from member states on the current international and regional situation, the SCO's future development, and cooperation across various fields. The meeting will also make comprehensive preparations for this year's SCO Summit in Bishkek, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Monday.

    2026-07-21 10:06:34
  • China-proposed global initiatives offer pathway to more just, equitable world -- analysts

    The global initiatives proposed by China chart a course toward a more just and equitable international order characterized by multilateralism and greater representation for developing countries, Egyptian experts said at a seminar in Cairo on Saturday.

    2026-07-20 16:19:25
  • Moonshot’s Kimi K3 shows China AI’s rise through innovation, efficiency and open ecosystem

    Moonshot’s Kimi K3 shows China AI’s rise through innovation, efficiency and open ecosystem

    The release of Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter large-language model (LLM) developed by Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Moonshot AI, has again put China's rapidly advancing AI sector in the global spotlight, as the model draws attention for its scale, efficiency gains and open-source approach.

    2026-07-20 09:30:50