China is moving to strengthen food security over the next five years by enhancing its capacity to coordinate grain production, purchasing, storage, processing and sales, as it seeks to build a more efficient and modern grain circulation system. The country will focus on facilitating grain purchases and sales and maintaining market stability, strengthening grain reserves, and improving the quality and resilience of the grain industry, Liu Huanxin, head of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, said at a media conference Monday.
The linear accelerator of the Hefei Advanced Light Facility (HALF) successfully generated and delivered an electron beam on Sunday, marking a key step forward in the construction of the world's most advanced fourth-generation synchrotron radiation facility in the low-energy range.
A new CLSA report published on Monday has drawn fresh attention to China's rapidly evolving artificial intelligence (AI) sector, stating that Chinese AI models are quickly narrowing the performance gap with leading global models while gaining strong global market share through cost efficiency.
A state media program aired on Saturday night labeled the J-35A stealth fighter with the codename Yunlong (Cloud Dragon/Loong). A Chinese military expert said this appears to be the first official confirmation of the fighter's codename, which reflects both its capabilities and Chinese cultural symbolism. China's proactive release of its own codenames for warplanes in recent years signals a new emphasis on commanding naming discourse, a shift from passive acceptance to active shaping, the expert said.
China's orbiting space station has improved its kitchen with advanced appliances and more food choices to keep its residents well-fed during long stays in orbit. The Astronaut Center of China, working with several private companies, has upgraded the "space kitchen" with a suite of intelligent appliances for drinking water, food reheating and baking, enabling astronauts in orbit to eat hot meals within 20 minutes instead of waiting longer or eating cold food.
China completed six orbital launches in less than a week with a 100 percent success rate after a Kinetica-1 carrier rocket successfully sent nine satellites into orbit on Sunday afternoon, highlighting the country's increasingly intensive launch cadence and expanding space transportation capacity.
China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) have handled more than 36,000 cases involving cyber-related illegal and criminal activities so far this year as part of its "Clean Net 2026" campaign, the ministry announced on Thursday, while also disclosing 10 typical cases involving cyberbullying and staging and fabricating content.
China's state broadcaster CCTV News on Wednesday released footage of Type 99B main battle tanks conducting live-fire drills, offering a rare official look at the new model in training since its appearance at the massive V-Day military parade on September 3, 2025.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Wednesday that he would like to stress again that no matter how the DPP authorities collude with external forces to seek "diplomatic breakthroughs" and advance their separatist agenda in whatever form, such attempts will be all in vain and doomed to fail.
China on Tuesday successfully launched a Zhuque-2E Y7 carrier rocket from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in Northwest China, sending 10 Qianfan Constellation satellites into preset orbits. This marks the first time a Chinese private rocket has been tasked with the deployment of a large-scale satellite internet constellation, underscoring the significant role of private space companies in the development of national-level space infrastructure.
