China is stepping up meteorological support for Nepal following last week's mudslide disaster, providing satellite data and meteorological services to assist cross-border disaster monitoring and emergency response, according to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA).
Less than 5 meters in two hours. What made the road so difficult to reopen?
Nepalese border residents stranded by a deadly mudslide in Gyirong Town in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region have received assistance and arrangements from the Chinese side for orderly return home or continued stay.
A Chinese citizen died on Tuesday while being held at a detention facility of the Philippine Bureau of Immigration pending deportation, the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines said on Thursday evening on its official WeChat account. The embassy said it was deeply shocked and saddened by the death and had immediately lodged solemn representations with the Philippine side.
On a quiet afternoon in late August, a Global Times reporter, wearing an anti-static suit, walked into a russet building beside North Dragon Lake in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province. Inside the building, the Sugon 8000 hall — China's first fully homegrown 100,000-card AI supercluster and an important node of the national supercomputing internet, had been operating for more than a month.
China has built the world's largest and most complete power battery industrial system after more than two decades of strenuous efforts, with leading technologies and output and sales ranking first globally for years, Wan Gang, honorary president of the China Association for Science and Technology, said at the opening of the 2026 World Power Battery Conference in Southwest China's Sichuan Province on Thursday.
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On Aug 26, a catastrophic glacial debris flow roared down the valley along the China-Nepal border, ruthlessly destroying the Gyirong — Rasuwa border point and shattering any complacency about nature's stability.
The land route to Gyirong Port in Gyirong County, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, had been fully reopened at 10 am on Wednesday, allowing rescuers, relief supplies, equipment and heavy machinery to reach the core disaster area by road to carry out more intensive rescue operations.
The 2026 SCO Summit was held in Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic, from Aug 31 to Sept 1. In a recent interview with China Daily, Djoomart Otorbaev, former prime minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, said that connectivity goes far beyond roads and railways, embracing broader and multidimensional links; pragmatism enables cooperation among countries with different systems and national conditions into real results; and autonomy empowers the Global South to pursue independent development and shape its own future.
