The turn of the year is not only a peak period for household consumption but also a key time for many workers to receive their wages and plan their expenses.
When you're running a business away from home, the biggest fear is running out of cash flow.
The official Weibo Community Observer account issued a notice on Friday stating that the personal account of Xiaopa, a stand-up comedian, had posted content inciting gender antagonism and fueling marriage and childbirth anxiety. For violating relevant laws and regulations, the account was ordered to be suspended, and the platform executed the suspension order.
A six-month-old baby monkey in Japan has gone viral online after treating a stuffed toy as its mother, capturing hearts around the world.
Gold consumption has recently been on the rise, and turning idle gold jewelry into “golden nail art” has become a Chinese New Year trend among young people, China National Radio (CNR) reported. The new trend has sparked heated discussions online.
The 2026 Chinese New Year celebrations in a small French village with a population of fewer than 11,000 were exceptionally vibrant, featuring dragon dances, lion dances, fireworks, kung fu performances, and traditional festival snacks, attracting scores of onlookers, according to a post by a Chinese netizen living in France, Jimu News reported.
A medical team from East China's Jiangsu Province performed auricular reconstruction surgery on a nine-year-old girl born without a right ear, using her own costal cartilage to craft a new ear with defined contours and a natural appearance, according to an article released on the WeChat account of the Jiangsu Province People's Hospital.
The Archives Collection of Tang Honglu Well Stele of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) was recently released in Shanghai, offering a comprehensive account of the stele's century-long journey from its erection and preservation in China to its plunder by and secret concealment in Japan, and establishing a solid, indisputable chain of evidence. However, after extensive investigations and interviews, Global Times reporters found that the path to restoring looted Chinese cultural relics remains fraught with challenges, seemingly trapped in a maze of silence and evasion due to Japan's persistent evasiveness over the years.
In the early hours of Thursday, a 24-year-old woman from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region gave birth to quintuplets — one boy and four girls — at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University after a relay effort by more than 20 medical staff. Mother and babies are safe, Hubei Daily reported. Hospital obstetrics director Li Jiafu, with nearly four decades of experience, said it was the largest multiple pregnancy he had ever delivered. Naturally conceived quintuplets are estimated to occur in about one in 60 million births worldwide.
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Friday unveiled plans to conduct two crewed spaceflight missions and one cargo resupply mission in 2026, with astronauts from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions expected to undertake a space station mission. The agency also revealed that the landing missions of China's crewed lunar exploration program have been progressing smoothly, targeting the execution of the country's first crewed Moon landing before 2030. And one Pakistani astronaut is scheduled to carry out a short-term mission aboard the China Space Station serving as a payload expert.
A suspected gunman, surnamed Lin, who changed disguises 11 times before and after shooting a 65-year-old Taipei aesthetic medical clinic boss, surnamed Hsiao, got arrested by police on Thursday, with all the six of his accomplices taken into custody. Hsiao was shot and wounded in the leg during a post-Chinese New Year back-to-work ceremony on February 21, with two employees also injured, local media outlets including China Times and ETtoday reported on Thursday.
Is the Spring Festival lantern fair not only for viewing, but also for playing? The 2026 Tangshan Nanhu Spring Festival Lantern Festival, which took place in North China's Hebei Province, uses a full array of AI technologies to give the traditional lantern fair creative flourish. Visitors can experience the marvelous collision of technology and Chinese New Year festivity in a world of light and shadow.
By the end of 2025, courts nationwide had sentenced more than 41,000 individuals repatriated from northern Myanmar for their involvement in telecom fraud; the notorious Ming and Bai family criminal gangs based in northern Myanmar have been completely dismantled, the Global Times learned from China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) on Thursday.
Chinese courts have concluded the trials of two major criminal groups based in northern Myanmar involved in telecom and online fraud, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Thursday.
The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and other organizations released a report on Thursday, revealing how the US uses technological hegemony to harvest global virtual currency assets. According to incomplete statistics, between 2022 and 2025, the US confiscated virtual currency assets worth over $30 billion through various cases worldwide. Notably, the Chen Zhi case alone accounted for $15 billion in confiscated assets, representing 50 percent of the total.
Good news from a hospital in East China during the just-concluded Spring Festival holidays has drawn widespread attention online and trended on social media platform Weibo – one of the conjoined twin girls who underwent separation surgery 28 years ago has now become a mother.
Chinese researchers have achieved the world's first successful treatment of a liver failure patient using ex vivo perfusion with a six-gene-edited pig liver, preliminarily confirming the safety and efficacy of the technique and providing a new strategy for the clinical treatment of end-stage liver disease, including as a bridging therapy before liver transplantation, China Science Daily reported on Wednesday.
Japan has no historical or legal standing to interfere in or comment on the Taiwan question, nor any position to intervene in it whatsoever. Sanae Takaichi repeatedly hypes up Taiwan Straits issues in a calculated move to divert domestic contradictions, shift public attention away from problems at home, and stir up populism in Japan, all to serve her own political self-interest.
After video clips of "two people beat up a girl in public" in a county in Central China's Henan Province went viral and attracted public roar over the violence in recent days, local government released updates of the case late Tuesday, saying the two suspects have been arrested.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities in Taiwan have come under intense public backlash after US President Donald Trump's tariff measures were ruled illegal by the US Supreme Court and he subsequently announced a new 15-percent tariff hike on imports, sparking growing anxiety on the island over whether the much-touted talks had been “for nothing.” As uncertainty over US tariff policy deepens, Taiwan businesses are increasingly worried about rising costs, shrinking profit margins and potential supply-chain disruptions, with some netizens warning that blindly following Washington could ultimately sell out the island.
An official from China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said on Tuesday that China is currently facing intensifying and multi-dimensional risks of technology leakage, and that procuratorial authorities will safeguard the country's technological and economic security in accordance with the law.
China Central Television unveiled application scenarios and released more details of China's first unmanned cargo aircraft - the "Tianma-1000" on Tuesday, noting that the aircraft is capable of adapting to high-altitude complex terrain, achieving ultra-short takeoff and landing, and swiftly switching between cargo transport and airdrop mode.
Ningde, South China's Fujian Province, is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the sea on one. Where mountains and ocean meet, local people have long nurtured a bold and adventurous spirit. Sun Wufei is a local visually impaired massage therapist. Seizing the business opportunities brought by the railway, he returned to his hometown to start his own venture. Beginning with just three massage beds in his small house, he has since opened four branch stores, providing jobs for more than 30 people with visual impairments.
Nearly 200 Siberian tigers at the Siberia Tiger Park in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province have been put on a rotational “intermittent fasting program” to improve their health, the park confirmed with the Global Times on Monday, as the tourist attraction witnessed a massive influx of visitors during the Spring Festival holidays with a corresponding surge in tiger feeding activity.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council on Monday sent a congratulatory message to the Chinese delegation for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, commending the delegation for achieving its best-ever results at an overseas Winter Olympic Games - a total of 15 medals, including five gold, four silver and six bronze, according to Xinhua News Agency.
Nineteen people were killed, and 25 others were injured when a passenger bus en route to Kathmandu from Pokhara plunged into the Trishuli River in central Nepal's Dhading district early Monday, according to local administration.
At the break of dawn, 58-year-old Liu Zuqiong pedaled her tricycle to the “common prosperity market.” At her designated stall, she deftly unloaded the fresh vegetables she had grown, arranging them neatly. The soft glow of the stall lights illuminated her face, reddened by the cold, and reflected the stability and anticipation in her eyes.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or house collapse after a magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck Yuli County in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Monday, local authorities said.
Eighteen people were killed when a passenger bus en route to Kathmandu from Pokhara plunged into the Trishuli River in central Nepal's Dhading district early Monday, according to local administration.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit Yuli County, Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, at 12:12 p.m. Monday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
After a folk activity of Mazu parade held in Shishi village, Zhanjiang in South China's Guangdong Province has attracted widespread attention from netizens, the local government published a statement on Sunday, addressing online speculations including capital intervention to replace a girl with a boy in the rituals, and the sedan chair could not be lifted.
China's freeski icon Gu Ailing successfully defended her Olympic gold medal in the women's halfpipe at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Sunday.
At a small shop in Baishamen Park, Haikou, South China's Hainan Province, Xie Min (Nicki Johnson) is painting a horse totem onto a piece of coconut shell. “Hey, this horse is really unique!” A blonde foreign visitor leaned over the counter, picking up one of the coconut-shell handicrafts for a closer look.
The People's Government of Ciba town in Jia county, Pingdingshan, Central China's Henan Province, released an official statement on Saturday in response to online reports that a 15-year-old girl had been beaten in the street, according to xinhuanet.com.
Mist shrouds Baishanzu National Park in Lishui, East China's Zhejiang Province, as a fine drizzle falls. "In weather like this, I have to check on those fir trees in person to put my mind at ease," says Lan Rongguang, head of the Baishanzu Protection Station at the Qingyuan Conservation Center within the Qianjiangyuan-Baishanzu National Park candidate site. He picks up his well-worn wooden walking stick, smooth from years of use, and heads into the forest.
Inside the Guangxi Embodied Intelligence Data Collection and Testing Center at the Liuzhou Robot Industrial Park in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, blue indicator lights flashed beneath the forehead of a 1.76-meter-tall industrial humanoid robot, their glow mingling with the red radiance of lanterns reflected on the glass curtain wall.
Chinese authorities on Friday launched a Level-IV emergency response for major meteorological disasters.
Chinese researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model for astronomical imaging that significantly enhances scientists' ability to peer into the deepest reaches of the cosmos.
China's Wang Xindi wins men's freestyle skiing aerials gold at Milan-Cortina
Liu Hongyan, following in the footsteps of her uncle Mei Jingtian, became a Great Wall protector. Monitoring dangerous conditions, clearing stone steps, picking up litter, and discouraging uncivilized behavior are all part of a Great Wall protector's daily routine. Though the tasks may seem simple, they demand considerable physical strength, endurance, and professional expertise.
The identities of all victims in a fireworks and firecrackers explosion in Yicheng, Xiangyang city of Central China's Hubei Province have been confirmed, with the accident causing 12 deaths, including seven adults and five minors, according to a report from the CCTV News.
Eileen Gu has added two more silver medals to her collection at the ongoing 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, cementing her status as the most decorated female freestyle skier in Olympic history. The superstar skier, competing for China, now boasts an impressive total of five Olympic medals across two Winter Games: two golds and three silvers.
Editor's Note: This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30). A new year begins with new resolve and new momentum. The call to "fight for our dreams and our happiness, and turn our great vision into beautiful realities" continues to inspire actions across China. In the column "New Year on the Frontlines," reporters from the People's Daily traveled to the grassroots to witness the vitality of a vast nation, see its mountains and rivers in motion and its fields in abundance, and listen to the stories of people finding fulfillment in both life and work. Through these stories, the column seeks to present a vivid portrait of Chinese modernization.
The Spring Festival's sunshine scatters across the sea surface, sparkling on the blue waves. The sight of coral being planted on the seabed is no less a beautiful scene, just as wonderful as the sea itself.
China's Xu Mengtao wins women's freeski aerials at Milan-Cortina 2026
Su Yiming captured gold in the men's snowboard slopestyle final at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Wednesday, delivering the first gold medal for China at the Games.
The Office of the State Council Work Safety Committee has decided to oversee the investigation into a boat capsizing accident that occurred Tuesday in Chuxiong City, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, which caused 26 people on board to fall into the water, resulting in four deaths.
Calling the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics a "privilege," China's Gu Ailing said she was proud to return to the podium after winning silver in the women's freeski big air final on Monday night, her second medal of the Games and the fifth Olympic medal of her career.
From a novice to an experienced expert, maintenance worker Wang Xiaoli has safeguarded this “road” in the clouds in Huangshan Mountain day after day with his colleagues. This year, Wang once again spent a busy and meaningful Spring Festival at his post.
In Luoguhe Village, Mohe in Heilongjiang Province, the wind is bitingly cold. Just as dawn broke, the People's Daily reporter followed Shen Xin and her husband Shi Xianqiang on a patrol along the border river. Each breath hung in the air as white mist, instantly crystallizing into tiny frost on their eyelashes.
As the Chinese New Year arrives, Chen Guohua is busier than ever. The first thing he does every day when he steps out is to check on his mushrooms. "Demand is high during the Spring Festival holiday. We need to harvest this batch quickly and notify the buyers to pick them up," he says.
Chinese tech firm Unitree humanoid robots made a spectacular return to the Spring Festival Gala on Monday, captivating audiences this year with a dynamic routine featuring parkour, Drunken Fist, and nunchaku—a significant upgrade from their stunning Yangko dance performance at the 2025 event.
They are 400 km above Earth and cannot go home for the Spring Festival this year, but China's taikonauts have found their own ways to make the traditional Chinese holiday warm and sweet.
Twelve years later, the People' Daily reporter returned to Zhonggeng Village, which had merged with four neighboring villages and was now known as Shihai Village, and found the changes striking. Shihai Village has drawn on the experience from the Green Rural Revival Program, adapting measures to improve living conditions, with flowers and greenery becoming standard in front and back yards.
An explosion and its resulting blaze at a fireworks retail store in Dong'an Village, Donghai County of east China's Jiangsu Province, left eight people dead and two others with minor burns Sunday afternoon, according to local authorities of Donghai County.
The fair held in celebration of the upcoming Spring Festival creates diverse consumption scenarios for citizens and tourists. It will last until March 3.
The Chinese Embassy in Singapore issued a notice on Saturday through its official WeChat account, urging Chinese citizens to stay away from gambling. The notice was prompted by a recent incident in which a Chinese national died after allegedly gambling at Marina Bay Sands Casino and later jumping from a building. The embassy is currently assisting the family with follow-up arrangements.
A 49-year-old woman was placed under administrative detention for spreading AI-generated false information claiming a partial ground collapse in a metro construction site in Shanghai to attract followers, causing adverse social impact, according to a notice released by Minhang district branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau.
China's State Council has approved the upgrade of the Xiong'an high-tech industrial development zone into a national-level high-tech industrial development zone, according to a statement released Friday.
The Chinese captain, who was arrested after Japan claimed he had sought to avoid inspection following his ship entered the nation's exclusive economic zone, was released at around 7:55 pm on Friday after submitting a written guarantee for the payment of bail, Mainichi reported, citing Japan Fisheries Agency.
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.
On the afternoon of February 11, train No. 6437 was already filled with a festive atmosphere. Train conductor Cui Daqing held a stack of red papers with “Fu” character, offering passengers warm New Year wishes in a loud and cheerful voice. Festive paper-cut decorations adorned the windows, reflecting the mountain scenery rushing past outside. The luggage racks were crammed with holiday goods – tote bags packed with Beijing specialties and toys for children back home.
China completed its first maritime recovery of a rocket booster on Friday, as search and recovery teams retrieved the first-stage of a Long March-10 carrier rocket from the sea, a milestone in advancement of reusable launch vehicles technologies, Central China Television reported on Friday, citing the China Manned Space Agency.
This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30). A new year begins with new resolve and new momentum. The call to "fight for our dreams and our happiness, and turn our great vision into beautiful realities" continues to inspire action across China.
This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30). A new year begins with new resolve and new momentum. The call to "fight for our dreams and our happiness, and turn our great vision into beautiful realities" continues to inspire action across China.
As Chinese New Year approaches, in Yingshan county, Central China's Hubei Province, known as the "land of medicinal herbs," Wang Zaiping, a villager from Tiantang village in Shitouzui Township, has been busy. On a sunny mountainside slope, she and her husband diligently turn over pine logs. The logs, about 40-centimeter long and as thick as a fist, are neatly stacked. "Once cracks appear at both ends, it's time to 'put them in the pit,'" Wang said. "Growing Poria cocos depends entirely on these logs, so we have to take good care of them."
Amid rising anxiety and insecurity in Europe driven by strained transatlantic ties - including deepening divisions over the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the US' aggressive Greenland acquisition ambitions and punitive tariffs targeting longtime allies - prominent security officials and academics are set to gather in southern Germany, for the 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) which lasts from Friday through Sunday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for strengthening the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic layout of basic research and supporting scientists and researchers in delivering more original innovations, Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.
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 novel 3D printing technology capable of fabricating complex millimeter-scale objects with 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.