When the 2026 West Bund Urban Sports Carnival and FISE World Series Shanghai concluded on October 18, the four-day event drew 400,000 visits to the Gate M West Bund Dream Center, up 20.5 percent year on year and a 72 percent rise compared with non-event periods, according to the organizers.
Reports of a new Starbucks' rule in China requiring customers to make a purchase before taking a seat have sparked heated discussion on Chinese social media, with some worrying it could undermine the brand's "third place" concept, and others welcoming the move as a way to curb long-term seat occupancy by non-paying customers.
A potentially record-breaking El Nino event is developing in the tropical Pacific and could bring significant climate and marine ecological risks to China in the spring and summer of 2027. The central and eastern equatorial Pacific entered an El Nino phase in May, with the event strengthening rapidly in the following months, according to the National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center under China's Ministry of Natural Resources.
Chinese researchers have identified a new Jurassic bird fossil - a discovery that challenges the conventional assumptions that the origin and early evolution of birds were primarily driven by adaptations for flight, according to a report sent to the Global Times on Thursday by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The return of the IWF World Weightlifting Championships to China after a 31-year absence will put Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang Province, in the spotlight as the sport's first qualifying event for LA2028 gets underway.
The British Council (BC), which administers IELTS tests, announced in a statement on Tuesday that it would arrange two additional days of free test sessions in the Chinese mainland for affected candidates after computer-delivered IELTS exams scheduled for Saturday and Sunday were canceled due to technical issues.
Chinese-made AI-powered tennis robots are serving up new business opportunities as China's growing enthusiasm for tennis fuels demand for intelligent training partners, while the sport is also emerging as a testing ground for advances in embodied artificial intelligence.
Railway stations and roads nationwide are packed, as people head home from their travel destinations on the last day of the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday on Sunday. That traffic will add up to the estimated total inter-regional trips of 650 million passenger-trips, or about 220 million a day, during the Mid-Autumn Festival break. Average inbound and outbound passenger trips were projected to reach 2.2 million.
China's judicial and law enforcement authorities have jointly issued new guidelines on handling criminal cases involving fentanyl-related substances, clarifying the quantity thresholds to be used in determining convictions and sentences for such crimes and distinguishing between pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical fentanyl-related substances, according to China's Supreme People's Procuratorate on Wednesday.
China's ecological protection red lines, which designate ecologically important and vulnerable areas for strict protection, saw an overall improvement in environmental conditions in the recent years, China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment said on Tuesday.
