US technology giant Apple pushed out its iOS 27.3 developer beta version on Wednesday, giving Chinese mainland users first test access to Apple Intelligence.
China unveiled version 2.0 of its independently developed "Mazu" numerical ocean forecasting model, which provides forecasts at varying resolutions across key waters worldwide to meet major national needs, including deep-sea and polar exploration and maritime passage security, CCTV News reported on Sunday.
Chinese scientists have synthesized a metallic carbon nanoribbon made up of five- and seven-membered carbon rings that has demonstrated the efficient electron transport in the one-dimensional structure, the Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.
Chinese scientists have discovered three exoplanets that challenge the existing understanding of how planets evolve around aging stars, the research team behind the discoveries told the Global Times on Wednesday.
A Chinese-led international research team has identified the fastest-rotating near-Earth asteroid known to date and improved methods for determining the physical characteristics of asteroids that require short-term early warning. The findings mark a breakthrough in the observation and study of rapidly rotating near-Earth asteroids and are expected to enhance capabilities for advanced monitoring, early warning and defense against asteroid threats that allow little time for response, the Global Times learned from the research team on Tuesday.
A Chinese research team has made new progress in experiments using a protective covering to slow glacier melt, with a novel radiative-cooling nanofilm reducing glacier melt by more than 80 percent in treated areas of Dagu Glacier in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Glacier surface in some parts of the experimental area have 'gained' 10 centimeters in elevation over six years, an experiment leader from the research team told the Global Times on Monday.
A Chinese research team has developed a new strategy to overcome a longstanding challenge in flexible perovskite solar cells, enabling the production of large-area, commercial size flexible photovoltaic devices with power conversion efficiencies consistently exceeding 20 percent, the Xinhua News Agency has reported.
A humanoid robot powered by RISC-V can dodge obstacles by moving sideways and engage visitors in multiple rounds of conversation. Nearby, exhibition booths display vehicle control boards, edge AI development boards and complete server systems.
The beta version of China's first space-based computing marketplace, the "Space Computing Trading Platform," was launched on Tuesday by the Beijing Space Computing Innovation Center, marking a new step toward the commercialization of the country's emerging space computing industry.
Chinese scientists have successfully developed a 1-gram wireless mesoscopic microscope called Airscope, billed as the world's lightest megapixel device of its kind. It enables large-scale, high-resolution wireless imaging of neural activity in the brains of naturally behaving animals, offering a new tool for neuroscience research and brain-computer interface (BCI) development, the Global Times learned from the research group on Tuesday.
Chinese scientists have found genetic evidence that early millet-farming populations in northern China originated locally rather than emerging from a major influx of migrant agricultural groups, according to research published in the journal Science Advances.
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.
For the first time, Chinese researchers have used a domestically developed large language model (LLM) to help solve a world-class mathematical problem, marking what experts say is a milestone for AI-assisted scientific discovery.
OpenAI Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Sarah Friar reportedly warned businesses using Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models to consider what she called safety and security elements, while claiming that companies should favor Western models for cybersecurity-related applications. A Chinese AI expert told the Global Times that the security of AI models cannot simply be judged by where their developers are based, nor by labeling them as "Chinese" or "Western." More relevant factors include deployment, data isolation, access permissions and security management. There is insufficient technical basis or evidence to assume Western models are inherently safer than Chinese ones, the expert said, adding that Friar's remarks also reflect the pressure major Western AI companies are facing as Chinese models become increasingly competitive in cost, deployment and real-world applications.
Chinese researchers have identified a new Jurassic bird fossil – a discovery that challenges the conventional notion that the origin and early evolution of birds were primarily driven by adaptations for flight, according to a report released by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Wednesday.
An expert panel conducted on-site evaluation of rice sterile line Ji 233S and its hybrid combinations, which were developed by multiple institutions to have tolerance to extreme temperatures. The evaluation took place in high-altitude trial areas in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, the Beijing-based Science and Technology Daily reported on Tuesday.
A robotic dog developed by Hangzhou-based DEEP Robotics has taken part in a biodiversity expedition in forests of Ailao Mountains in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, marking the first real-world scientific exploration application of an embodied artificial intelligence (AI) robot.
Urumqi-based Xinjiang Dadao Industrial Investment Co Ltd said it has launched the construction of a real-world training center and application validation base for embodied AI robots in Urumqi, capital city of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, making it the region's first production assembly line for embodied AI robots.
A research team from the Kunming Institute of Zoology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a key gene associated with the evolution of human intelligence and induced mice to develop brain folds resembling those found in the human brain by regulating the gene, state broadcaster CCTV News reported.
Chinese technology companies have recently stepped up their efforts to develop personal artificial intelligence (AI) agents, reflecting the accelerating shift in China's AI industry toward real-world applications and commercial deployment.
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.