As the Spring Festival approaches, museums across China have opened exhibitions featuring everything from ancient relics to cutting-edge digital installations to celebrate the Year of the Horse.
Wu Fei, deputy chair of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Umpires and Referee Committee (URC), told the Global Times that the end of 2025 marked one of the most important moments in her professional career.
As the Chinese New Year is drawing near, markets across China are coming alive with festive buzz. Early mornings see shuttle buses from cities to suburban markets filled with young faces clutching cameras and gimbals, while tens of thousands tune in to livestream online, starting their days to the steam of breakfast stalls and the din of vendors' calls.
"The hardest days are when the fog rolls in. You can't see anything, and the loneliness feels overwhelming." He is often the only person at the temple, sometimes going days without uttering a single word.
China will dispatch a 286-member delegation to the upcoming 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, it was announced at a Beijing mobilization meeting on Tuesday - marking the launch of the country's largest-ever winter Olympic team to compete on foreign soil.
Inside a greenhouse at the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (YAAS), a newly bred Chinese rose once known only as No.4815-27 blooms quietly among thousands of new varieties. The pink flower has recently been renamed "Jiaolong" in honor of a late official. Since the academy first invited the public to name newly bred Chinese rose varieties, the initiative has sparked enthusiastic responses.
Chinese robotics firm Unitree Robotics announced on Monday that it has become a robot cooperation partner for China Media Group's (CMG) Spring Festival Gala for the Year of the Horse, marking its third collaboration with the gala, following a robot ox performance in 2021 and a humanoid robot yangko dance show at the 2025 event, according to its social media post.
As China heads into the Year of the Horse, consumer demand is being released earlier than usual, propelled by the country's longest Spring Festival holiday on record and a coordinated policy push aimed at turning seasonal spending into sustained economic momentum.
Including a newly discovered "sacred lake," several archaeological developments have recently been made by a China-Egypt joint team around the Montu Temple site in the Karnak Temple Complex in Luxor, Egypt.
The AFC U23 Asian Cup final is set to kick off on Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. With China's team reaching the final, enthusiasm among Chinese fans continues to surge, with multiple social media platforms showing that many are planning or are in the process of traveling to Saudi Arabia to cheer their team on site.
