China's FAST telescope has helped uncover the first known primordial pulsar triple with a still-evolving companion star, according to a statement sent to the Global Times by the National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Chinese and European scientists independently confirmed the finding through shared data from observatories around the world.
At the ongoing 77th International Astronautical Congress in Turkey, Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut to enter space, said that the first foreign astronauts training for China's manned space program are progressing well in their training. He also revealed that China plans to build a lunar research station, according to CCTV News.
A major breakthrough in rice research by Chinese scientists was published online in the international journal Cell on Tuesday. The study marks the first time a three-dimensional spatiotemporal cell atlas covering the entire rice lifecycle - from seed germination to flowering and grain filling - has been constructed, providing a new research resource for understanding rice growth and development and exploring grain quality improvement, researchers said on Wednesday.
China has completed the main structure of its first offshore platform designed to inject carbon dioxide to boost natural gas recovery, CCTV News reported, citing China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).
Robots are moving out of laboratories and exhibition halls and into shopping malls and commercial streets across China. As more Chinese robotics companies open brick and mortar stores, ordinary consumers can now not only see and interact with robots up close, but even buy them directly.
A newly identified fossil from the Early Cretaceous of China shows that a small mammal living about 125 million years ago possessed clear adaptations for a semi-aquatic lifestyle, making it the earliest confirmed swimming mammal discovered to date.
Chinese scientists have created the first "acoustic profile" of the Qiantang River tidal bore located in East China's Zhejiang Province, according to a press conference held in Zhejiang's Jiaxing on Sunday.
Representatives from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firms DeepSeek and Moonshot are expected to brief a United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting on AI and international security on Wednesday in New York, according to Reuters. Chinese experts said the move underscores the growing role of Chinese firms in global discussions on AI development and also highlights China's commitment to global AI governance, including sharing innovation, openness, and win-win cooperation.
A carbon-based brake disc about a meter in diameter, built for the Airbus A320's braking system, is light enough to lift with one hand. However, it once cost as much as a luxury car to produce, a heavy price that contrasts sharply with its weight.
A 360-meter-tall wind measurement tower has been completed and put into operation at an 800,000-kilowatt experimental wind farm in Mulei county, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, making it the world's tallest wind measurement tower in the wind power industry, the Science and Technology Daily reported on Tuesday.
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 team of Chinese and US scientists has recently obtained the most detailed gas images yet of the Andromeda Galaxy through joint observations using China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) and the US Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA), identifying 118 superbubbles and providing observational evidence that repeated supernova explosions can drive and sustain galactic turbulence, the motion of gas and dust between stars.
China on Thursday carried out two successful space launches within hours of each other, sending a new batch of low-orbit internet satellites and a pioneering pair of commercial interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) remote-sensing satellites into preset orbits, marking new progress in the country's commercial space and spatial infrastructure development, the Science and Technology Daily reported on Thursday.
China is stepping up the research into next-generation supersonic passenger aircraft, with a domestically developed low-boom demonstrator, TMS-10, expected to attempt supersonic flight by the end of this year, state broadcaster CCTV News reported Wednesday. Travel time between Beijing and Shanghai could be cut to just 30 minutes, compared with around two hours for the current air route spanning over 1,000 kilometers, according to CCTV News.
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.
The world's first intelligent manufacturing facility for humanoid robots designed for 10,000-unit capacity has begun operating in Liuzhou, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, UBTECH Robotics, China's humanoid robot developer, announced on Sunday, noting that the factory can roll out one industrial humanoid robot every 10 minutes.
China has unveiled two mineral exploration and geological mapping systems powered by AI. The launch marks their global debut and aims to make geological workflows more efficient and intelligent.
Over the course of two years of observations, the number of neutral hydrogen sources detected by China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) surged from 40,000 to 156,411 across nearly half of the entire sky, according to a report on the website of the National Astronomical Observatories (NAO) with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A research team from Guangdong University of Technology's (GDUT), led by professor Xie Shengli, has recently unveiled a high-precision simulation and verification platform for a lunar satellite navigation system.
An embodied artificial intelligence (AI) version of China's robot GEAIR, capable of autonomous navigation and flower breeding, was recently unveiled in Beijing. The upgraded robot can now perform complex tasks including flower-part identification, positioning, pollination, and phenotypic data collection, according to Chinese state media CCTV News.
A new paper by Huawei's semiconductor segment chief He Tingbo on the company's Tau (τ) Scaling Law presented measurements from the Kirin 2026 chip, showing that transistor density increased by about 55 percent while power consumption fell across several key computing units at comparable performance.
Chinese and Russian researchers have conducted their first joint on-site observation of Arctic sea ice, an effort a Chinese expert says could help improve understanding of changes in the Arctic environment and provide data relevant to future activities in the region, including exploring shipping routes.
A comprehensive marine geophysical survey was conducted in waters east of China's Taiwan island by the Second Institute of Oceanography under the Ministry of Natural Resources between August 10 and 31 to gain a comprehensive understanding of the basic geological and seafloor tectonic characteristics of waters under China's jurisdiction and to support natural resources management and the development of a “one map” system for territorial spatial planning, the People's Daily reported on Thursday.
Chinese research teams have achieved a breakthrough on an independently developed superconducting quantum computer, with tests showing information transmission efficiency of up to 98 percent for a single quantum router, Science and Technology Daily reported on Wednesday.
Chinese scientists using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) have found that while star formation has declined sharply over the past 4.5 billion years, the universe's neutral atomic hydrogen reservoir has remained relatively stable, offering new clues to why galaxies are becoming less efficient at forming stars.
Chinese experts said on Tuesday that the nation's strength in power batteries is expanding beyond manufacturing scale and market share into the shaping of rules for next-generation technologies.
China has operationalized the world's first orbital computing cloud capable of providing regular on-orbit experimental services, marking a new stage in the commercialization of space-based computing infrastructure, according to Science and Technology Daily.
China's Ministry of Natural Resources has released its first complete set of geometric benchmark imagery covering the entire mainland territory, providing a unified high-precision reference for satellite remote sensing data, reported by China's state broadcaster CCTV News on Sunday.
Researchers have completed a laser communications test between Earth and the Moon, successfully verifying two-way high-speed laser link capabilities in orbit, the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said on Friday.
Research on Jurassic-era fossil katydids from Ningcheng County, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has provided the first evidence that insects capable of ultrasonic communication existed 165 million years ago, during the Middle Jurassic, a researcher at the Capital Normal University (CNU) told the Global Times on Thursday.
Landing a slender arrow in a pot 1.5 meters away, and staying upright under hundreds of newtons of pulling force - the pot-throwing, tug-of-war and weightlifting events added at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games have pushed humanoid robots toward two opposite extremes: precision and power.
A Chinese research team has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) model designed specifically for mineral exploration in the southern parts of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, marking what developers describe as the region's first large language model dedicated to the mining sector.
China's early rice production remained broadly stable in 2026 despite adverse weather, while Chinese scientists have identified a rare gene variant that could help rice mature earlier without sacrificing yield.
On the blue track inside the National Speed Skating Oval, robots chased each other in the 400-meter race. A sprinting Tien Kung robot was tripped by a rival robot lying on the track but did not fall. Instead, it adjusted its posture in seconds and continued toward the finish line with a result of 38.15 seconds, breaking human 400-meter race world record of 43.03 seconds, held by South African athlete Wayde van Niekerk.
China's commercial reusable launch vehicle sector continues to make steady progress, as a company announced on Friday that it had completed a long-duration test firing of an engine for a large recoverable carrier rocket.
As the lights inside the National Speed Skating Oval dimmed on Friday evening, two rows of humanoid robots raised their drumsticks. Some wore crimson robes with gilded, cloud-shaped shoulder pieces; others silver suits cut for the future. Before them stood Chinese drums painted with red dragons. A few meters away a human orchestra of tubas, trumpets and flutes settled in, and machines and musicians counted the same beat.
Alongside civilian robot makers such as Unitree, UBTECH and AgiBot, several Chinese companies at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing are exploring the potential use of humanoid and quadruped robots in security and military-related fields.
More than 30 screens cover one wall of a booth at the 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC). Not one shows a robot dancing. Each carries a live feed from a different Chinese city: a robot in traffic-police uniform at an intersection, another in a car dealership, another out on patrol. The robots on the screens are not at the show. They are at work.
China is currently leading the global robotics race, supported by a national strategy, strong manufacturing capabilities and the large-scale deployment of robots, but there are opportunities for China-US cooperation, Jeff Burnstein, president of the US-based Association for Advancing Automation (A3), said at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing.
The first "Xiong'an made" satellite was successfully launched into orbit from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in Jiuquan, Northwest China's Gansu Province on Wednesday, marking a milestone for the Xiong'an New Area's aerospace information industry as it advances from research and manufacturing to in-orbit applications.
China's homegrown perovskite rollable solar wing prototype has completed and is about to enter in-orbit testing phase. It can provide satellites with “ultra-light soft batteries” and marks the transition of perovskite space photovoltaic (PV) technology from laboratory validation to the engineering application stage, the Science and Technology Daily reported on Wednesday.
Lixun-1 upper stage, a versatile “space tug” developed by China's commercial space firm CAS Space, is scheduled to make its maiden flight in the first quarter of 2027 after completing a series of key propulsion-system tests, the developer and its chief designer told the Global Times on Tuesday.
Chinese doctors have completed what they called as the world's first replantation involving the complete severing of both legs at thigh level, with the patient now able to walk indoors using a walker following a nearly eight-hour operation, according to a recent report by the Yangtze Evening Post.
China won three gold medals and one silver at the 38th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2026), topping the team standings as the competition concluded in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, on Saturday, Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.
Alibaba Cloud on Tuesday officially launched its Lingjun Zhenwu M890 supernode instance in Ulanqab, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with the first batch of instances now available for sale in the region.
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) technology companies are gaining a growing foothold among international users, with their models topping rankings on some leading industry platforms, ahead of their US counterparts.
China's cutting-edge industrial upgrade witnessed two major landmarks on Monday, marking the country's full-fledged global lead in humanoid robotics and further solidifying the rise of its "new new three" strategic sectors — robotics, artificial intelligence and innovative medicine.
China's research icebreaker Xuelong 2 began its first ice station survey of its current voyage near 84 degrees north latitude in the central Arctic Ocean on Sunday, marking the start of an approximately half-month comprehensive survey of the region.
A large number of new-generation commercial rockets developed in Beijing are moving closer to maiden flights, scheduled as early as within this year, as private aerospace companies accelerate their efforts to achieve reusable launch capabilities and build low-cost, high-frequency space transportation systems, the Beijing Daily reported Thursday.
Chinese scientist Wang Jinsong has become the first Chinese recipient of the William Nordberg Medal, a major international award recognizing distinguished contributions to the application of space science, CCTV News reported on Monday.
Washington has tightened technology restrictions on China on two fronts in less than a week. On Tuesday local time, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added advanced robots and power inverters to its Covered List, barring imports of new models.
A new-generation space power system developed by China has successfully completed all in-orbit tests aboard the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft, marking the first time worldwide that a 400-volt (400V) bus power system has been applied in orbit, according to the system developer.
Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) made a landmark debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market on Monday, with its shares soaring on the first trading day and drawing broad market attention after setting multiple records in China's A-share market.
A series of breakthroughs in fundamental science and cutting-edge technologies have recently put China's younger generation of scientists and innovators under the global spotlight.
China on Thursday sent a new marine satellite into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
As many Global South countries face overlapping pressures from land degradation, food security challenges and the need to raise farmers' incomes, a Chinese geographical engineering model being applied in Lankao county, Central China's Henan Province, could offer a new way to address complex land use and high-standard farmland construction problems through scientific diagnosis, engineering design and localized practice, a Chinese scholar said.
China's fully domestically developed "LineShine" supercomputer ranked first on the global TOP500 list with a sustained double-precision performance of 2.19EFlops (10¹⁸ floating-point operations per second), according to the ISC 2026 conference held in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday. The ranking marks China's return to the top of global supercomputing after nine years, China Media Group (CMG) reported.
China's independently developed “Origin Wukong” series of superconducting quantum computers have completed more than 1 million global quantum computing tasks, according to a joint statement on Monday made by the Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Computing Chips and the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center in Hefei, East China's Anhui Province.
China's Shenzhou-23 crewed spaceship is scheduled to be launched at 11:08 p.m. Sunday (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, the China Manned Space Agency announced on Saturday.
"It is incredible to see up close how innovation can expand access, save lives, and further strengthen Brazil's Unified Health System," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on social media after conducting a simulated remote surgery using a China-developed Toumai MT-1000 surgical robot from 1,400 kilometers away.
High above our planet, a "cosmic smile" has taken shape. Riding aboard the Vega-C launch vehicle, the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) satellite, jointly developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the European Space Agency (ESA), took off from the space launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, at 11:52 am on Tuesday.
China launched a Long March-8 carrier rocket on Sunday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a new satellite group into space.
Visitors eagerly leaned forward to experience the C919 simulator cockpit, danced interactively with embodied intelligent robots, and watched rich hand gestures on brain-computer interface screens that illuminate the lives of people with disabilities. These vivid scenes capture the atmosphere of the 28th China Beijing International High-tech Expo, where people are witnessing countless visions of future life gradually turning into reality.
The combination of the Tianzhou-10 cargo craft and a Long March-7 carrier rocket was vertically transferred to the launch site on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
China's Tianzhou-9 cargo craft has re-entered the atmosphere in a controlled manner at 7:49 a.m. (Beijing Time) Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
In a futuristic office resembling a space station, Zhao Hongjie, executive vice president of Adaspace Technology Co., Ltd. (ADAspace), outlined a grand vision: to bring intelligent services to every corner of the Earth.
Friday marks China's 11th Space Day, shining a light on a string of remarkable new achievements in the country's aerospace sector, including new findings from Chang'e-5 lunar samples, the launch schedule for the Tianwen-3 planetary exploration mission, and international cooperation on the Xihe-2 solar observation mission. A Chinese expert said that China's space industry is advancing at an impressive pace, and through inclusive, equal cooperation, China embraces openness to share space achievements to benefit more countries across the globe.
China successfully sent a new set of test satellites promoting internet technology into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern Sichuan Province on Friday.
China released its first commercial space standard system on Friday, aiming to leverage standardization's guiding role in the development of the space industry and promote high-quality development of commercial space activities.
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Friday announced opportunities for international cooperation on the Xihe-2 solar observation mission, inviting global partners to jointly advance solar science and research aimed at deepening humanity's understanding of the Sun.
Chinese scientists have identified two previously unknown lunar minerals from the 1,731 grams of moon samples returned by Chang'e-5 mission, marking another major breakthrough in deep-space research. The findings were announced on Friday at the opening ceremony of the 11th China Space Day. The two newly discovered minerals have been officially approved and classified by the International Mineralogical Association. They are named magnesiochangesite-(Y) and changesite-(Ce).
China celebrates its 11th Space Day on April 24 this year, which also marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of China's space program.
China on Friday launched a Long March-4C carrier rocket to send a satellite for high-precision greenhouse gas detection into the preset orbit.
The Shenzhou-21 crew aboard China's orbiting space station completed their mission's third series of extravehicular activities on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
China on Saturday launched a Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3) carrier rocket from the sea, sending a test satellite into its planned orbit to promote satellite internet technology.
Chinese scientists have, for the first time, precisely measured the thermal conductivities of a single lunar soil particle from the Chang'e-5 mission, discovering that lunar agglutinates in the soil provide insulation in a vacuum comparable to high-performance synthetic aerogels, marking the lowest thermal conductivity ever reported for a natural material, the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU), Chinese Academy of Sciences, announced on Tuesday.
The fully domestically developed NORINCO LUCA large cargo unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully completed its maiden flight on Tuesday in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province. According to its developer from China's state-owned Norinco Group, it is now the largest logistics unmanned cargo aircraft in the world to have achieved a successful first flight, marking the arrival of China's first 7-ton-class fixed-wing "unmanned aerial heavy truck" in the low-altitude economy and expanding the range of potential applications.
China on Monday launched a Lijian-2 Y1 carrier rocket with three satellites onboard.
China successfully launched a remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Sunday.
In a traditional Chinese courtyard, a young Jackie Chan dressed in black engages in a high-speed chase with Jet Li, clad in white. Set to the stirring theme "A Man Should Strengthen Himself", the two leap from courtyard walls into an interior hall, launching into a meticulously choreographed fight packed with close combat and technical precision.
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.
China's capital city Beijing on Friday hosted the 2026 International Commercial Space Exhibition, drawing a wide range of Chinese commercial aerospace companies alongside overseas participants from countries including Romania and Greece.
China sent a new satellite into space on Tuesday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
“It is like standing in Beijing and throwing a basketball into a fixed hoop in Shanghai; the level of precision required is similarly demanding,” Wei Yuanming of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) told the Global Times when he was illustrating the exciting and highly challenging Tianwen-2 mission in Xichang, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, in May, ahead of the launch of the first asteroid probe and sampling mission.
China launched Long March-12A reusable rocket at the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation Test Zone at 10 am on Tuesday. The second stage of the rocket entered the preset orbit, but the first stage recovery failed. The cause is under further analysis and investigation, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Chinese researchers have discovered a new species of catfish in Zayu county, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, marking China's another important advance in the study of fish diversity and biological evolution in the Himalayan region, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday.
The uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft, China's first emergency launch in the history of its manned space program, docked with China's Tiangong space station on Tuesday, some three hours and 40 minutes after liftoff, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The mission came after an unexpected incident occurred to Shenzhou-20 spacecraft, which was struck by space debris, disrupting its planned return.
The return capsule of the Shenzhou-21 spaceship, carrying the Shenzhou-20 taikonauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, touched down at the Dongfeng landing site in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 4:40 pm on Friday, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said, adding that the three taikonauts are in good health.
The skyline of Yuecheng district in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang Province, recently welcomed a distinctive "aerial visitor." The Xiangyun AS700, known as the "aerial beluga," arrived at Jianshui Science and Technology City amid widespread attention.
China is currently selecting astronauts from Pakistan, with one expected to take part in a short-duration space mission at an appropriate time, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Thursday.
China remains firmly on track to achieve its goal of landing astronauts on the moon before 2030, with overall progress advancing smoothly, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Thursday.
A research team led by Professor Tao Kai from the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Northwestern Polytechnical University has successfully developed a fully transparent, jellyfish-shaped bionic robot. Nicknamed the "Underwater Phantom," the robot is nearly invisible to the naked eye when submerged and is capable of intelligent underwater exploration and real-time environmental monitoring, according to media reports.
China's Kinetica-1 rocket, also known as Lijian-1, carried out its ninth launch at 11:33 am on Sunday from the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace innovation test zone, successfully sending three satellites, including one remote sensing satellite from Pakistan, into their preset orbits, the Global Times learned from rocket developer CAS Space on Sunday.
Utilizing advanced thin-film lithium niobate photonic materials and a novel architecture, researchers in China have developed the first adaptive, full-band, high-speed wireless communication chip based on integrated optoelectronic fusion technology, Science and Technology Daily reported Thursday. The findings were published in Nature on Wednesday.
Chinese, US, UK, and Saudi Arabia scientists reconstructed high quality and long-term natural streamflow of 217,001 river reaches across China and analyzed the spatial and temporal patterns of natural river flow connectivity during 1961-2020, emphasizing warming climate and water withdrawals threaten river flow connectivity in China, and highlighting the urgent need to maintain sustainable water resources, particularly in drying regions, the Global Times learned from a research team of the Beijing Normal University on Wednesday.
The extravehicular spacesuit B, worn by astronaut Chen Dong on Friday during the third series of extravehicular activities (EVAs) of the Shenzhou-20 crew aboard China's orbiting space station, has supported 20 EVAs, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the China Astronaut Research and Training Center.
Global Times learned from the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Thursday that China's Lanyue lander successfully completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test at the extraterrestrial landing test site in Huailai county, North China's Hebei Province on Wednesday. This test, the CMSA said, marks China's first landing and takeoff experiment for a manned spacecraft on an extraterrestrial body.
China has officially launched its first and the world's fifth carrier rocket maritime recovery ship, becoming the second nation after the US to possess such a vessel. The launch of the ship, codenamed Xingji Guihang, or the Interstellar Return, marks a solid step forward in China's reusable rocket maritime recovery technology, Global Times learned from the developers on Thursday.
The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance is scheduled to kick off in Shanghai on Saturday, showcasing cutting-edge technologies and innovations by domestic and foreign tech enterprises including Unitree Robotics, Google and Siemens, while providing an important platform for strengthening international AI cooperation and governance amid growing unilateralism and protectionism from certain Western countries.
China's Tianzhou-9 cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the rear port of the orbiting Tiangong space station's Tianhe core module at 8:52 am on Tuesday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The mission delivered a wide array of supplies, including more than 190 types of food and 23 batches of scientific experiment materials.