• 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If Xishuangbanna could fit in a suitcase, what would global mayors take home?

    2026-07-18 21:03:51
  • Endurance of Belief: Retracing the Long March in Today's Sangzhi County

    Ninety years after the victory of the Long March (1934-36), what remains of this extraordinary journey? In Sangzhi County, Hunan Province — where the Second Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army set out on its Long March — British host Tudor Finneran explores how the belief forged during those difficult years continues to live on, from thriving rural industries to cultural traditions passed down through the generations.

    2026-07-18 20:56:01
  • Same heat, different answers: Global mayors discover green Xishuangbanna

    The 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue is taking place in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province. Global mayors and representatives are gathering in this rainforest region to explore how ecological protection and development can go hand in hand. Xishuangbanna's own experience in conserving its tropical forests offers one local example for these discussions.

    2026-07-17 16:17:33