As a Dutch court on Wednesday local time ordered a formal investigation into so-called mismanagement of Nexperia, China's Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Lin Jian told a press conference on Thursday that the competent authorities have stated our position on the Nexperia issue on multiple occasions, noting that the root cause of the Nexperia issue is the improper administrative intervention of the Dutch side in the operations of businesses.
China's top internet regulator has launched a month-long special campaign aimed at fostering a "festive, harmonious and positive" online environment ahead of the 2026 Spring Festival, with a particular focus on harmful and misleading content generated by artificial intelligence (AI), according to an official notice issued on Thursday.
Chinese scientists have developed a new type of 3D printing technology capable of fabricating complex millimeter-scale objects at high resolution in just 0.6 seconds – setting a new speed record, Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.
Chinese research team achieved a major breakthrough in continuous-wave vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light sources, a longstanding bottleneck in the development of the nuclear clock, Science and Technology Daily reported on Thursday.
The US Ambassador to Bangladesh was singing the same old tune again, pointed fingers at China-Bangladesh relations and was mixing white and black. Such remarks are made with ulterior motives, Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh slammed on Thursday, following claims made by the US Ambassador to Bangladesh Brent T. Christensen saying that the US is concerned about growing Chinese influence in South Asia and is committed to working closely with the Bangladeshi government to clearly communicate the risks of certain types of engagement with China.
Chinese scientists have built the world's first large-scale quantum key distribution (QKD) network based on integrated photonic quantum chips, which provides a feasible solution for building large-scale quantum communication chip networks and applications. The international journal Nature published the results online on Thursday.
Two gymnastics coaches at Zhejiang College of Sports have been placed under investigation after a teenage athlete's parents came forward with accusations of them involving physical abuse, financial extortion, and their daughter's subsequent fall from a building, according to Xinhua News Agency on Thursday.
As the Year of the Horse approaches, Chinese people are set to enjoy the longest-ever nine-day Spring Festival holidays, with multiple ministries and provincial governments rolling out measures to boost holiday consumption and ensure smoother, more affordable entertainment and shopping experiences during the country's most important annual celebration.
Seven pairs of worn-out hiking boots, 12,500 kilometers, and more than 500 days on road, a trek spanning 16 countries, two French hikers stepped onto the Bund in Shanghai.
"Something Is Rotten in the State of America" - a headline once used by The New York Times in a report on US foreign policy - may now resonate far beyond diplomacy. As a new round of disclosures from the Epstein files revealed the sweeping scope of connections between the late financier and Western elites, the spin on the famous idiom taken from Hamlet appears increasingly apt.
China on Wednesday successfully conducted a low-altitude demonstration and verification flight test for its Long March-10 carrier rocket in the southern island province of Hainan, the China Manned Space Agency said.
The return capsule of China's new-generation Mengzhou crewed spaceship has safely splashed down in the predetermined sea area during a flight test on Wednesday, the China Manned Space Agency said.
The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival for the Chinese nation. If the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities dare to stage unwarranted provocations during this peaceful and auspicious festival, they must bear all consequences, Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said on Wednesday, in response to the claim by Taiwan regional coast guard department that it would conduct so-called "security maintenance operations" during the Spring Festival.
Chinese researchers have developed an ultra-low-temperature lithium battery that enables plug-and-play operation in extreme cold and competed on-site testing in Mohe, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, successfully solving the long-standing energy supply problem in frigid regions, Science and Technology Daily reported Wednesday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited primary-level officials and residents in Beijing during a two-day inspection tour from Monday to Tuesday, extending Spring Festival greetings to Chinese people at home and abroad ahead of the festival, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
China on Tuesday released a white paper on Hong Kong's efforts to safeguard national security, comprehensively reviewing the practice of the special administrative region's national security practices, highlighting the central government's fundamental responsibility for national security affairs in the city and its staunch backing for the city's safeguarding role.
Certain countries and institutions used a judicial case in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to maliciously smear Hong Kong, denigrate the rule of law there, and interfere in China's internal affairs. China firmly opposes this and has lodged solemn representations with the relevant countries and institutions, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Tuesday in response to statements issued by the US, the UK, Australia, the EU and others concerning the 20-year-imprisonment sentencing on anti-China riots instigator Jimmy Lai Chee-ying.
Eileen Gu, the two-time Olympic gold medalist competing for Team China, said Monday that the spillover of US domestic political issues into the Games "runs contrary to everything the Olympics should be," after she was asked the issue that US President Donald Trump branded US freestyle skier Hunter Hess a "real loser" for saying he felt "a little hard" to represent his country amid America's tense and divisive political climate.
Eleven people, including the gold mine manager, have been placed under control after an accident killed seven at Canzhuang gold mine in Zhaoyuan, East China's Shandong Province, on February 7, CCTV News reported Tuesday.
China's State Council Information Office on Tuesday released a white paper titled "Hong Kong: Safeguarding China's National Security Under the Framework of One Country, Two Systems,” according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Editor's Note: The Spring Festival, the most important traditional holiday of the Chinese nation, embodies the Chinese people's cherished values of family reunion and bidding farewell to the old while welcoming the new.
Both the Chinese Embassy in the UK and the Mission of China to the EU rejected the latest claims made by the British side and the EU External Action on the sentencing of anti-China riots instigator Jimmy Lai on Monday, urging the British and the European sides to stop interfering in China's internal affairs.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry responded intensively to inquiries concerning Japan's Lower House election results on Monday, addressing at least five questions, in which the ministry spokesperson noted a clear path for the Japan's ruling authorities, urging them to take seriously rather than brush aside the concerns of the international community, follow the path of peaceful development rather than return to militarism, and abide by the four political documents between China and Japan rather than go back on commitments made.
Jiangsu authorities released findings and disciplinary actions on Monday on a probe into management of cultural relics at the Nanjing Museum, which involves the whereabouts of some of its collections, China Central Television reported. The probe found that five paintings were illegally transferred to the provincial cultural relics company and sold in the 1990s and early 2000s, resulting in the loss of state-owned cultural assets.
In a joint China-Myanmar-Thailand operation to dismantle gambling and fraud hubs in Myawaddy, Myanmar, Chinese police forces have escorted more than 1,500 criminal suspects back to China, according to Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on Monday, marking a phased achievement in the cross-order crackdown.
Nearly three months after returning Earth, Chen Dong, commander of Chinese Shenzhou-20 mission, still fondly recalls the flavorful roasted chicken wings enjoyed in space and the sweet moments shared with his five crewmates from the Shenzhou-20 and -21 missions abord the Tiangong space station. He shared these moments in a recent China Central Television (CCTV) interview aired on Monday.
He Jiaolong, an internet-famous official from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region who gained wide acclaim for promoting local tourism and agricultural products via social media, passed away in a horse-riding accident in January. She has posthumously been conferred the title of outstanding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the Xinjiang, Xinjiang Daily reported on Monday.
“I would first like to point out that Jimmy Lai is a Chinese citizen,” said Lin Jian, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, on Monday in response to a question about the latest sentencing in Lai's case, as well as the mention of Lai as a British national by the British prime minister during his visit to China, and the call by US President Donald Trump for China to release Lai.
Multiple central government's authorities in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) expressed firm support on Monday for the HKSAR in fulfilling its constitutional responsibility to safeguard national security and in lawfully handing down a sentence decision in the Jimmy Lai case after the High Court of the HKSAR on Monday morning sentenced Lai, an instigator of anti-China riots in Hong Kong, to 20 years in prison.
"Jimmy Lai is a Chinese national," said Lin Jian, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, on Monday. Lai was the principal mastermind and perpetrator behind the series of riots that shook Hong Kong. His moves seriously breached the principles and bottom line of One Country, Two Systems, endanger national security and hurt Hong Kong's prosperity and stability and Hong Kong residents' wellbeing. There is every reason to bring him to justice, Lin said.
As the Spring Festival draws near, Chinese cultural elements are spreading at an accelerated pace across the globe. From a Chinese New Year parade in Paris led by a humanoid robot, to Spring Festival Gala promotional videos appearing in metro systems in major cities across Germany and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, fire-horse-themed artwork on trams in the Netherlands, a growing array of Chinese elements is being embraced abroad. With hashtags such as "Chinamaxxing" and "China travel" going viral on social media platforms, and several foreign leaders choosing to share videos of their China visit on social media platforms in early 2026, Chinese culture has gained renewed visibility internationally. The upcoming Chinese New Year, particularly the Year of the Horse, has become a key moment for cultural dialogue between China and the world.
Comic-Con organizers in Beijing and several other cities have announced bans on cosplay and merchandise related to the popular Japanese anime Detective Conan, after the series collaborated with My Hero Academia -- another Japanese anime that previously sparked a boycott by Chinese netizens and was removed from streaming platforms over accusations of insulting the feelings of the Chinese people.
China's overall infectious disease situation remains stable. However, the country will maintain close monitoring of key diseases such as Nipah virus, as well as the epidemic situation in neighboring countries during the Spring Festival period, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Sunday.
Chinese scientists have discovered natural hydrogen sealed in microscopic rock cavities within ophiolites on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, pointing to a new direction for next-generation zero-carbon clean energy exploration in China, the Global Times learned from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Sunday.
An explosion that occurred in the early hours of Saturday at a biotechnology company in Shuozhou, North China's Shanxi Province has resulted in eight fatalities as of 9:30 am Sunday, and the cause of the incident is still under investigation, according to Xinhua News Agency.
China's ratio of total social logistics costs to gross domestic product (GDP) fell to 13.9 percent in 2025, dropping below the 14 percent threshold for the first time, the country's top economic planner said on Saturday.
"Brecken, Selina, and Meredith, we're here in Beijing waiting for you!" Tiutiu, the daughter of Rongrong from Shanghai, said in a voice message she sent to Brecken Newmann on Friday. These two families, who once touched millions of netizens by exchanging family photos on Xiaohongshu and met for last year in Shanghai, are now reunited in Beijing.
A Chinese research team has developed a stretchable, flexible microelectrode that can dynamically adapt to brain motion, addressing a long-standing bottleneck in invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in which conventional flexible electrodes are prone to displacement and retraction during brain movement.
The government service website of East China's Zhejiang Province published an administrative penalty decision on Saturday, showing that Chinese actress Gina Jin was fined 1,500 yuan ($216) for fleeing the scene of a traffic accident in 2025.
Chinese badminton ace Wang Chang and table tennis star Qian Tianyi announced their marriage on social media on Saturday, sharing the happy news with fans and the public at 13:14 Beijing time, a timestamp symbolizing a lifelong commitment in Chinese culture.
China on Saturday successfully launched a reusable experimental spacecraft aboard a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, according to Xinhua News Agency.
Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi continued his ongoing state visit to China on Friday with a stop in Shanghai, where he headlined the China-Uruguay Business and Investment Forum alongside business leaders, trade associations, and company executives from both nations eager to forge new deals. The president also took time to explore a Shanghai museum.
The first AI-powered robot restaurant in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, opened for business in late January, attracting large numbers of local residents eager to try a new style of dining, Zhejiang Daily reported. The restaurant replaces traditional chefs with robots that stir-fry, boil noodles, brew coffee, make ice cream, deliver dishes and even clean the floor, creating a production line that runs without human cooks.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government is advancing plans to allow pet dogs in designated restaurants, with the first batch of permissions expected to be issued by mid-2026, creating new business opportunities for the industry, according to details released recently by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.
A Chinese father used 3D printing technology to create a wearable, design-forward pink mecha suit for his daughter. A video documenting the making process as well as his daughter showing off the suit in public was posted on Chinese social media platform Douyin on January 30, which has garnered more than 330,000 likes.
Located within the Arctic Circle, Greenland has long been known for its frigid climate, vast expanse and desolate landscape. More than 80 percent of the island is covered by thick ice sheets, and it has for decades been regarded as a silent land at the edge of the world. However, since January 2026, the icy island has been abruptly thrust into the center of a global political storm after the US president repeatedly made public threats to take over Greenland.
The sentencing of the case of anti-government instigator and traitor Jimmy Lai will be delivered on at 10 am next Monday, according to the judiciary website of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) has prosecuted 62,000 people involved in telecom and online fraud crimes as part of intensified efforts to crack down on serious criminal offenses, an official from the top procuratorate said on Thursday.
The medical incident involving the death of an infant after surgery at the Women and Children's Hospital of Ningbo University in East China's Zhejiang Province, a case that has drawn national public attention, has been found an A1 level medical malpractice, the severest in category, according to detailed investigation results published Thursday. The chief surgeon's license was revoked and multiple other doctors involved were punished.
The US President, in a rare move, personally stepped in a missing-people case and publicly mobilized federal resources to aid in search, and what's more, he is helping someone who once openly clashed with him in an interview, making the case attract more attention.
China had 1.125 billion internet users by the end of 2025, with the penetration rate climbing to 80.1 percent, according to an official industry report.
Doctors from a hospital in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region traveled to Russia and, in cooperation with local medical teams, successfully completed the country's first bilateral hand allotransplant surgery, the Global Times learned on Thursday from the leading Chinese doctor involved in the project.
Amid intensive visits made by leaders of several European countries, officials of Lithuania appear to be anxious with them openly admitting making strategic mistake on Taiwan question. Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė, in a recent interview with the Baltic News Service (BNS), expressed regret over Lithuania's decision to allow a so-called Taiwanese representative office to open in Vilnius under the name "Taiwanese." She described the move as a strategic mistake, likening it to Lithuania having "jumped in front of a train and lost," according to a report from local media LRT English on Tuesday.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is planning to travel to China in mid-April, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, US local time, citing an unnamed personal familiar with the preparations.
On Tuesday, a program by Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)revealed a comprehensive timeline of Barbie Hsu Shi-yuan, also known as Da S, the renowned Taiwan-born actress and TV host, from her trip to Japan until her passing in the country.
For some you might not know, Draco Malfoy is now an unexpected mascot of good fortune for the Year of the Horse among Chinese netizens. Pasted beside crimson couplets on apartment doors, decorated on tea cups and shimmering from the backs of smartphones is the face of Malfoy — the silver-tongued Slytherin from J.K. Rowling's massively successful book series Harry Potter.
Speed skater Ning Zhongyan and short track speed skater Zhang Chutong will serve as China's flagbearers at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation announced on Wednesday.
China prosecuted more than 11,000 repatriated individuals from northern Myanmar for telecom fraud during the first 11 months of last year, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on Wednesday.
China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on Wednesday released eight typical cases involving illegal drone flights, drawn from recent years, as unauthorized drone operations have increasingly disrupted airspace order and posed risks to civil aviation safety, according to the ministry's official WeChat account.
The head of German Space Command Michael Traut reportedly claimed that Germany is considering a 35 billion euro ($41 billion) military space push, including spy satellites, space planes and offensive lasers, citing so-called "threats" from Russia and China in orbit. Chinese analysts on Wednesday slammed the move as classic double standards and Cold War mentality, as it cites baseless China "threat" claims, while ignoring the fact that the US is the top driver of space militarization.
Local government of Hubei has formed a joint investigation team and dispatched it to Xiangyang and Yichang to conduct an in-depth probe into issues raised by media reports, including allegations that some psychiatric hospitals admitted patients in violation of regulations and were suspected of fraudulently obtaining medical insurance funds, Hubei government said on its WeChat account on Wednesday.
In response to the recent online attention on the case of "a couple allegedly being poisoned by online-purchased baby Chinese cabbages," local police confirmed on Tuesday in a statement that the couple has been placed under criminal compulsory measures on suspicion of blackmailing, according to a notice released by the Tiantai county public security bureau in East China's Zhejiang Province.
Inspired by birds which can fly with their wings and skillfully perch with their talons, a research team from Zhejiang University designed the world's first hand-shaped flying manipulation robot, according to Zhejiang University on Tuesday.
A think tank forum co-hosted by research institutes affiliated with the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party was held in Beijing on Tuesday.
Five people died in a fire broke out at a nursing home in Qiqihar, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Monday afternoon, according to a statement released on the official website of the Jianhua district government of Qiqihar on Tuesday.
China's planned Xihe-2 solar probe — set to launch between 2028 and 2029 and become the world's first spacecraft stationed at the Sun-Earth L5 point — will enable detection of solar active regions 4–5 days earlier than from Earth orbit. This promises a significant leap forward in space weather prediction and early warnings, a leading scientist of the program told the Global Times on Tuesday.
China's YH-1000S, a self-made hybrid unmanned cargo aircraft, the world's first of its kind, has completed its maiden flight in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, its developer said on Tuesday.
With the departure of "green-coated" regular-speed passenger train K4069 from Beijing West Railway Station for Nanchang in East China's Jiangxi Province at 12:40 am on Monday, China's 2026 Spring Festival travel rush, also known as chunyun, officially started, during which a record 9.5 billion passenger trips are estimated to be made in the 40-day festivities. Railway stations and airports across the country have sprung to life, with travelers carrying gift-laden bags setting off on homebound journeys, their faces alight with anticipation and festive joy. Often described as the largest annual human migration on the planet, chunyun is not only a reflection of China's transportation capacity and technological progress, but also a window to observe the world's second-largest economy in multiple dimensions from consumption vitality to sociocultural trends.
Two people have been killed and three others remain missing after a bridge under construction collapsed on Monday afternoon in Yancheng city, East China's Jiangsu Province, local authorities said early Tuesday, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
A delegation from the Chinese Kuomintang Party (KMT) led by its deputy chair Hsiao Hsu-tsen arrived in Beijing on Monday for a think tank exchange forum with the mainland side. This marks the revival of the KMT-Communist Party of China (CPC) forum mechanism after a nine-year hiatus amid prolonged cross-Straits tensions since the secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) took office.
China has carried out the death sentences of four leading members of the Bai family criminal gang based in northern Myanmar, who had been sentenced to death in November 2025 for crimes including intentional homicide, telecom fraud and drug trafficking, while another principal offender, Bai Suocheng, died of an illness, according to the Xinhua News Agency on Monday.
China has carried out the death sentences of four leading members of gangs based in northern Myanmar, who had been sentenced to death in November 2025 for crimes including intentional homicide, telecom fraud and drug trafficking.
US President Donald Trump has reportedly responded to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after the latter warned a US strike on Iran would spark a regional war. While claiming the US has the biggest, most powerful ships in the world over there, Trump on Sunday local time expressed hope to make a deal and in case of no-deal, and he also threated to find out whether or not Khamenei was right over the remarks, NBC News reported.
In 2025, courts across China concluded 23,732 first-instance drug cases, bringing caseloads back to pre-2000 levels. At the same time, cases involving new types of drugs have followed a different trajectory over the past three years, surging initially before easing, but showing an overall upward and volatile trend, an official from China's Supreme People's Court said on Monday.
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the implementation of China's Coast Guard Law, which falls on Sunday, the China Coast Guard (CCG) released two promotional videos, "Law Enforcement in the Sea" and "Guarding the Sea," showing for the first time on-site footage of patrols around the Diaoyu Dao and joint helicopter patrols conducted by the Chinese and Russian coast guards.
Beijing's chilly winter streets are awash in black puffer jackets of all designs — an observation of the city's ubiquitous winter style that has gone viral online recently, capturing netizens' attention and even spawning a whimsical "black puffer jacket appreciation" contest among local residents on Saturday.
The Chinese mainland copyright agent for popular Japanese anime Detective Conan issued an official statement on Saturday night, claiming that the series' controversial collaboration with another Japanese anime My Hero Academia "carries no stance or implication."
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the implementation of China's Coast Guard Law, the China Coast Guard (CCG) released two promotional videos, Guarding the Sea and Law Enforcement at Sea, on February 1.
Sunday marks the official launch of ticket sales for the first day of the 2026 Spring Festival holiday, which falls on February 15, in line with the 15-day advance ticketing policy. The official train ticket-booking platform 12306 showed that tickets for travel from Beijing to many popular domestic destinations on February 15 were in extremely high demand, with tickets for most services selling out immediately.
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the implementation of China's Coast Guard Law, the China Coast Guard (CCG) released two promotional videos, Guarding the Sea and Law Enforcement in the Sea, on February 1.
China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) on Sunday disclosed cases in which operatives from foreign intelligence agencies posed as industry experts or investment advisers to infiltrate professional online groups and exploit members' trust to extract sensitive information, including key technical data and internal policymaking details.
A Chinese-led research team has identified Asia's first recorded amphibian footprint fossils from the Middle Jurassic period in Beijing, filling a major gap in the study of Jurassic amphibian trace fossils in China and the wider region. The findings were published online on Friday in the academic journal Ichnos.
Japanese police stated on Saturday that the body of a Chinese woman was found in a mountain forest in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture on Tuesday, Japan's Jiji News reported, adding the case was preliminary classified by prefecture police as homicide and corpse abandonment based on situation on site.
A universal artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by a Chinese research team has become the world's first to solve nearly all Olympic-level geometry questions from the past 25 years within a maximum of 38 minutes, with geometry questions generated by the system now included in prestigious human mathematics competitions, Science Daily reported.
A drone tasked with hoisting live pigs in Bazhong, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, accidentally became entangled in power lines, cutting off electricity to a village for 10 hours. Local authorities are currently handling the incident, and the involved villager may face administrative penalties as well as liability for compensation for damaged power facilities.
An 81-year-old retiree from Fuping county in North China's Hebei Province has footed the bill out of his own pocket to build nearly 10,000 stone steps on the local Shenxian Mountain over the past 11 years, earning him the nickname of a modern-day "foolish old man" who moved mountains in an ancient Chinese myth, local Hebei Daily reported.
An "Awakening Lion" lantern at a park in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, with its drooping eyelids caused by a power outage, has been teased by netizens as resembling "a sleep-deprived office worker." Responding in the voice of the lion, the park said, "I was caught napping – I'll widen my eyes and be on duty with full energy."
There is a Russian saying, when rendered into English, reads “like walking to China,” a phrase that evokes a journey that is long, arduous and demanding — a metaphor for goals that require endurance to achieve. Yet with the implementation of a bilateral visa-free policy between China and Russia, walking to China is no longer a distant metaphor but an everyday reality for many border residents.
In a significant move recognizing the transformative power of the digital age, the Shaw Prize, often dubbed the "Nobel of the East," this week announced the establishment of a new prize category dedicated to Computer Science. The award aims to honor groundbreaking achievements in a field that is reshaping the modern world.
Pokémon, a Japanese media franchise, issued an apology on Friday after its website listed an event to be held at notorious Yasukuni Shrine, which has drawn a strong backlash on Chinese social media, pledging to prevent similar incidents from happening again, according to a company statement.
Traffic police in Keqiao district of Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang Province, issued a statement on Friday regarding the online rumors about Chinese actress Gina Jin being involved in a local "substitute driver" incident in a traffic accident, clarifying that during the investigation, it was uncovered that her accompanying individual had falsely claimed to be the driver, and affirming that no insurance fraud was involved.
A court in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Friday publicly announced the first-instance verdict in a case involving the Myanmar-based criminal gang led by Xu Faqi, also known as Xu Laofa, sentencing Xu to death with a two-year reprieve, according to a release from the Chongqing No.5 Intermediate People's Court's official WeChat account.
A snow leopard has been safely captured and transferred to a local wildlife rescue center after attacking livestock in Fuyun county, Altay Prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said on Friday. Earlier, the leopard had also reportedly attacked and injured a tourist.
The China Coast Guard (CCG) said on Friday that China carried out patrols around Diaoyu Dao for a total of 357 days in 2025, underscoring the country's sustained maritime rights protection efforts.
China's Ministry of Civil Affairs will take a range of measures, including allocating in advance 1.41 trillion yuan ($20.29 billion) in central government relief subsidy funds, to supervise and guide local authorities to strengthen the fundamental, last-resort arrangement within the social assistance framework and ensure basic living standards for people in difficulty, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Thursday.
During China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), the country has made notable progress in building its healthcare system. Both the overall scale and service capacity of hospitals, as well as the level of primary healthcare services, have seen significant improvement, Zhu Hongming, Director General, China National Health Development Research Center, told the Global Times during an exclusive interview.
“About 140 people, including officials, media, and business figures, dined at our restaurant during British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit. Interestingly, we've never had so many white foreign guests at once,” He Xiangming, manager of Yizuoyiwang, a Yunnan cuisine restaurant in Beijing's Sanlitun area, told the Global Times on Thursday. “Almost all of them used chopsticks, which made the scene quite unique.”
China's Spring Festival Gala has completed its second round of rehearsals, with humanoid robots once again emerging as one of the most closely watched highlights. So far, three robotics companies have officially announced their participation in the gala.
The 11 defendants of the northern Myanmar-based Ming family crime syndicate case, who was sentenced to death in September 2025, were executed, CCTV reported Thursday.
Recently, the National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) conducted China's first special unannounced inspection targeting maternity allowance fraud.