Chinese scientists have discovered natural hydrogen sealed in microscopic rock cavities within ophiolites on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, pointing to a new direction for next-generation zero-carbon clean energy exploration in China, the Global Times learned from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Sunday.
An explosion that occurred in the early hours of Saturday at a biotechnology company in Shuozhou, North China's Shanxi Province has resulted in eight fatalities as of 9:30 am Sunday, and the cause of the incident is still under investigation, according to Xinhua News Agency.
China's ratio of total social logistics costs to gross domestic product (GDP) fell to 13.9 percent in 2025, dropping below the 14 percent threshold for the first time, the country's top economic planner said on Saturday.
"Brecken, Selina, and Meredith, we're here in Beijing waiting for you!" Tiutiu, the daughter of Rongrong from Shanghai, said in a voice message she sent to Brecken Newmann on Friday. These two families, who once touched millions of netizens by exchanging family photos on Xiaohongshu and met for last year in Shanghai, are now reunited in Beijing.
A Chinese research team has developed a stretchable, flexible microelectrode that can dynamically adapt to brain motion, addressing a long-standing bottleneck in invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in which conventional flexible electrodes are prone to displacement and retraction during brain movement.
The government service website of East China's Zhejiang Province published an administrative penalty decision on Saturday, showing that Chinese actress Gina Jin was fined 1,500 yuan ($216) for fleeing the scene of a traffic accident in 2025.
Chinese badminton ace Wang Chang and table tennis star Qian Tianyi announced their marriage on social media on Saturday, sharing the happy news with fans and the public at 13:14 Beijing time, a timestamp symbolizing a lifelong commitment in Chinese culture.
China on Saturday successfully launched a reusable experimental spacecraft aboard a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, according to Xinhua News Agency.
Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi continued his ongoing state visit to China on Friday with a stop in Shanghai, where he headlined the China-Uruguay Business and Investment Forum alongside business leaders, trade associations, and company executives from both nations eager to forge new deals. The president also took time to explore a Shanghai museum.
The first AI-powered robot restaurant in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, opened for business in late January, attracting large numbers of local residents eager to try a new style of dining, Zhejiang Daily reported. The restaurant replaces traditional chefs with robots that stir-fry, boil noodles, brew coffee, make ice cream, deliver dishes and even clean the floor, creating a production line that runs without human cooks.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government is advancing plans to allow pet dogs in designated restaurants, with the first batch of permissions expected to be issued by mid-2026, creating new business opportunities for the industry, according to details released recently by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.
A Chinese father used 3D printing technology to create a wearable, design-forward pink mecha suit for his daughter. A video documenting the making process as well as his daughter showing off the suit in public was posted on Chinese social media platform Douyin on January 30, which has garnered more than 330,000 likes.
Located within the Arctic Circle, Greenland has long been known for its frigid climate, vast expanse and desolate landscape. More than 80 percent of the island is covered by thick ice sheets, and it has for decades been regarded as a silent land at the edge of the world. However, since January 2026, the icy island has been abruptly thrust into the center of a global political storm after the US president repeatedly made public threats to take over Greenland.
The sentencing of the case of anti-government instigator and traitor Jimmy Lai will be delivered on at 10 am next Monday, according to the judiciary website of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) has prosecuted 62,000 people involved in telecom and online fraud crimes as part of intensified efforts to crack down on serious criminal offenses, an official from the top procuratorate said on Thursday.
The medical incident involving the death of an infant after surgery at the Women and Children's Hospital of Ningbo University in East China's Zhejiang Province, a case that has drawn national public attention, has been found an A1 level medical malpractice, the severest in category, according to detailed investigation results published Thursday. The chief surgeon's license was revoked and multiple other doctors involved were punished.
The US President, in a rare move, personally stepped in a missing-people case and publicly mobilized federal resources to aid in search, and what's more, he is helping someone who once openly clashed with him in an interview, making the case attract more attention.
China had 1.125 billion internet users by the end of 2025, with the penetration rate climbing to 80.1 percent, according to an official industry report.
Doctors from a hospital in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region traveled to Russia and, in cooperation with local medical teams, successfully completed the country's first bilateral hand allotransplant surgery, the Global Times learned on Thursday from the leading Chinese doctor involved in the project.
Amid intensive visits made by leaders of several European countries, officials of Lithuania appear to be anxious with them openly admitting making strategic mistake on Taiwan question. Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė, in a recent interview with the Baltic News Service (BNS), expressed regret over Lithuania's decision to allow a so-called Taiwanese representative office to open in Vilnius under the name "Taiwanese." She described the move as a strategic mistake, likening it to Lithuania having "jumped in front of a train and lost," according to a report from local media LRT English on Tuesday.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is planning to travel to China in mid-April, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, US local time, citing an unnamed personal familiar with the preparations.
On Tuesday, a program by Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)revealed a comprehensive timeline of Barbie Hsu Shi-yuan, also known as Da S, the renowned Taiwan-born actress and TV host, from her trip to Japan until her passing in the country.
For some you might not know, Draco Malfoy is now an unexpected mascot of good fortune for the Year of the Horse among Chinese netizens. Pasted beside crimson couplets on apartment doors, decorated on tea cups and shimmering from the backs of smartphones is the face of Malfoy — the silver-tongued Slytherin from J.K. Rowling's massively successful book series Harry Potter.
Speed skater Ning Zhongyan and short track speed skater Zhang Chutong will serve as China's flagbearers at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation announced on Wednesday.
China prosecuted more than 11,000 repatriated individuals from northern Myanmar for telecom fraud during the first 11 months of last year, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on Wednesday.
China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on Wednesday released eight typical cases involving illegal drone flights, drawn from recent years, as unauthorized drone operations have increasingly disrupted airspace order and posed risks to civil aviation safety, according to the ministry's official WeChat account.
The head of German Space Command Michael Traut reportedly claimed that Germany is considering a 35 billion euro ($41 billion) military space push, including spy satellites, space planes and offensive lasers, citing so-called "threats" from Russia and China in orbit. Chinese analysts on Wednesday slammed the move as classic double standards and Cold War mentality, as it cites baseless China "threat" claims, while ignoring the fact that the US is the top driver of space militarization.
Local government of Hubei has formed a joint investigation team and dispatched it to Xiangyang and Yichang to conduct an in-depth probe into issues raised by media reports, including allegations that some psychiatric hospitals admitted patients in violation of regulations and were suspected of fraudulently obtaining medical insurance funds, Hubei government said on its WeChat account on Wednesday.
In response to the recent online attention on the case of "a couple allegedly being poisoned by online-purchased baby Chinese cabbages," local police confirmed on Tuesday in a statement that the couple has been placed under criminal compulsory measures on suspicion of blackmailing, according to a notice released by the Tiantai county public security bureau in East China's Zhejiang Province.
Inspired by birds which can fly with their wings and skillfully perch with their talons, a research team from Zhejiang University designed the world's first hand-shaped flying manipulation robot, according to Zhejiang University on Tuesday.
A think tank forum co-hosted by research institutes affiliated with the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party was held in Beijing on Tuesday.
Five people died in a fire broke out at a nursing home in Qiqihar, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Monday afternoon, according to a statement released on the official website of the Jianhua district government of Qiqihar on Tuesday.
China's planned Xihe-2 solar probe — set to launch between 2028 and 2029 and become the world's first spacecraft stationed at the Sun-Earth L5 point — will enable detection of solar active regions 4–5 days earlier than from Earth orbit. This promises a significant leap forward in space weather prediction and early warnings, a leading scientist of the program told the Global Times on Tuesday.
China's YH-1000S, a self-made hybrid unmanned cargo aircraft, the world's first of its kind, has completed its maiden flight in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, its developer said on Tuesday.
With the departure of "green-coated" regular-speed passenger train K4069 from Beijing West Railway Station for Nanchang in East China's Jiangxi Province at 12:40 am on Monday, China's 2026 Spring Festival travel rush, also known as chunyun, officially started, during which a record 9.5 billion passenger trips are estimated to be made in the 40-day festivities. Railway stations and airports across the country have sprung to life, with travelers carrying gift-laden bags setting off on homebound journeys, their faces alight with anticipation and festive joy. Often described as the largest annual human migration on the planet, chunyun is not only a reflection of China's transportation capacity and technological progress, but also a window to observe the world's second-largest economy in multiple dimensions from consumption vitality to sociocultural trends.
Two people have been killed and three others remain missing after a bridge under construction collapsed on Monday afternoon in Yancheng city, East China's Jiangsu Province, local authorities said early Tuesday, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
A delegation from the Chinese Kuomintang Party (KMT) led by its deputy chair Hsiao Hsu-tsen arrived in Beijing on Monday for a think tank exchange forum with the mainland side. This marks the revival of the KMT-Communist Party of China (CPC) forum mechanism after a nine-year hiatus amid prolonged cross-Straits tensions since the secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) took office.
China has carried out the death sentences of four leading members of the Bai family criminal gang based in northern Myanmar, who had been sentenced to death in November 2025 for crimes including intentional homicide, telecom fraud and drug trafficking, while another principal offender, Bai Suocheng, died of an illness, according to the Xinhua News Agency on Monday.
China has carried out the death sentences of four leading members of gangs based in northern Myanmar, who had been sentenced to death in November 2025 for crimes including intentional homicide, telecom fraud and drug trafficking.
US President Donald Trump has reportedly responded to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after the latter warned a US strike on Iran would spark a regional war. While claiming the US has the biggest, most powerful ships in the world over there, Trump on Sunday local time expressed hope to make a deal and in case of no-deal, and he also threated to find out whether or not Khamenei was right over the remarks, NBC News reported.
In 2025, courts across China concluded 23,732 first-instance drug cases, bringing caseloads back to pre-2000 levels. At the same time, cases involving new types of drugs have followed a different trajectory over the past three years, surging initially before easing, but showing an overall upward and volatile trend, an official from China's Supreme People's Court said on Monday.
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the implementation of China's Coast Guard Law, which falls on Sunday, the China Coast Guard (CCG) released two promotional videos, "Law Enforcement in the Sea" and "Guarding the Sea," showing for the first time on-site footage of patrols around the Diaoyu Dao and joint helicopter patrols conducted by the Chinese and Russian coast guards.
Beijing's chilly winter streets are awash in black puffer jackets of all designs — an observation of the city's ubiquitous winter style that has gone viral online recently, capturing netizens' attention and even spawning a whimsical "black puffer jacket appreciation" contest among local residents on Saturday.
The Chinese mainland copyright agent for popular Japanese anime Detective Conan issued an official statement on Saturday night, claiming that the series' controversial collaboration with another Japanese anime My Hero Academia "carries no stance or implication."
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the implementation of China's Coast Guard Law, the China Coast Guard (CCG) released two promotional videos, Guarding the Sea and Law Enforcement at Sea, on February 1.
Sunday marks the official launch of ticket sales for the first day of the 2026 Spring Festival holiday, which falls on February 15, in line with the 15-day advance ticketing policy. The official train ticket-booking platform 12306 showed that tickets for travel from Beijing to many popular domestic destinations on February 15 were in extremely high demand, with tickets for most services selling out immediately.
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the implementation of China's Coast Guard Law, the China Coast Guard (CCG) released two promotional videos, Guarding the Sea and Law Enforcement in the Sea, on February 1.
China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) on Sunday disclosed cases in which operatives from foreign intelligence agencies posed as industry experts or investment advisers to infiltrate professional online groups and exploit members' trust to extract sensitive information, including key technical data and internal policymaking details.
A Chinese-led research team has identified Asia's first recorded amphibian footprint fossils from the Middle Jurassic period in Beijing, filling a major gap in the study of Jurassic amphibian trace fossils in China and the wider region. The findings were published online on Friday in the academic journal Ichnos.
Japanese police stated on Saturday that the body of a Chinese woman was found in a mountain forest in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture on Tuesday, Japan's Jiji News reported, adding the case was preliminary classified by prefecture police as homicide and corpse abandonment based on situation on site.
A universal artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by a Chinese research team has become the world's first to solve nearly all Olympic-level geometry questions from the past 25 years within a maximum of 38 minutes, with geometry questions generated by the system now included in prestigious human mathematics competitions, Science Daily reported.
A drone tasked with hoisting live pigs in Bazhong, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, accidentally became entangled in power lines, cutting off electricity to a village for 10 hours. Local authorities are currently handling the incident, and the involved villager may face administrative penalties as well as liability for compensation for damaged power facilities.
An 81-year-old retiree from Fuping county in North China's Hebei Province has footed the bill out of his own pocket to build nearly 10,000 stone steps on the local Shenxian Mountain over the past 11 years, earning him the nickname of a modern-day "foolish old man" who moved mountains in an ancient Chinese myth, local Hebei Daily reported.
An "Awakening Lion" lantern at a park in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, with its drooping eyelids caused by a power outage, has been teased by netizens as resembling "a sleep-deprived office worker." Responding in the voice of the lion, the park said, "I was caught napping – I'll widen my eyes and be on duty with full energy."
There is a Russian saying, when rendered into English, reads “like walking to China,” a phrase that evokes a journey that is long, arduous and demanding — a metaphor for goals that require endurance to achieve. Yet with the implementation of a bilateral visa-free policy between China and Russia, walking to China is no longer a distant metaphor but an everyday reality for many border residents.
In a significant move recognizing the transformative power of the digital age, the Shaw Prize, often dubbed the "Nobel of the East," this week announced the establishment of a new prize category dedicated to Computer Science. The award aims to honor groundbreaking achievements in a field that is reshaping the modern world.
Pokémon, a Japanese media franchise, issued an apology on Friday after its website listed an event to be held at notorious Yasukuni Shrine, which has drawn a strong backlash on Chinese social media, pledging to prevent similar incidents from happening again, according to a company statement.
Traffic police in Keqiao district of Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang Province, issued a statement on Friday regarding the online rumors about Chinese actress Gina Jin being involved in a local "substitute driver" incident in a traffic accident, clarifying that during the investigation, it was uncovered that her accompanying individual had falsely claimed to be the driver, and affirming that no insurance fraud was involved.
A court in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Friday publicly announced the first-instance verdict in a case involving the Myanmar-based criminal gang led by Xu Faqi, also known as Xu Laofa, sentencing Xu to death with a two-year reprieve, according to a release from the Chongqing No.5 Intermediate People's Court's official WeChat account.
A snow leopard has been safely captured and transferred to a local wildlife rescue center after attacking livestock in Fuyun county, Altay Prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said on Friday. Earlier, the leopard had also reportedly attacked and injured a tourist.
The China Coast Guard (CCG) said on Friday that China carried out patrols around Diaoyu Dao for a total of 357 days in 2025, underscoring the country's sustained maritime rights protection efforts.
China's Ministry of Civil Affairs will take a range of measures, including allocating in advance 1.41 trillion yuan ($20.29 billion) in central government relief subsidy funds, to supervise and guide local authorities to strengthen the fundamental, last-resort arrangement within the social assistance framework and ensure basic living standards for people in difficulty, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Thursday.
During China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), the country has made notable progress in building its healthcare system. Both the overall scale and service capacity of hospitals, as well as the level of primary healthcare services, have seen significant improvement, Zhu Hongming, Director General, China National Health Development Research Center, told the Global Times during an exclusive interview.
“About 140 people, including officials, media, and business figures, dined at our restaurant during British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit. Interestingly, we've never had so many white foreign guests at once,” He Xiangming, manager of Yizuoyiwang, a Yunnan cuisine restaurant in Beijing's Sanlitun area, told the Global Times on Thursday. “Almost all of them used chopsticks, which made the scene quite unique.”
China's Spring Festival Gala has completed its second round of rehearsals, with humanoid robots once again emerging as one of the most closely watched highlights. So far, three robotics companies have officially announced their participation in the gala.
The 11 defendants of the northern Myanmar-based Ming family crime syndicate case, who was sentenced to death in September 2025, were executed, CCTV reported Thursday.
Recently, the National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) conducted China's first special unannounced inspection targeting maternity allowance fraud.
Pokémon, a Japanese media franchise, is now mired in controversy on Chinese social media after netizens discovered that it plans to hold a card game event at the notorious Yasukuni Shrine. The move has invited criticism from Chinese netizens, with many saying that Japanese companies that profit from China while undermining China's interests shouldn't be tolerated.
A 75-year-old Chinese female tourist was killed and four others sustained minor injuries after an SUV carrying Chinese nationals overturned on the ice surface of Lake Baikal in Russia's Olkhon District on Wednesday, the Chinese Consulate General in Irkutsk told the Global Times.
A Chinese media report highlighting a regulation that will deny re-registration for any Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) product still listing "unclear" under contraindications, adverse reactions, or precautions, effective July 1 of this year, has sparked public discussion regarding the necessity of addressing safety risks in the industry.
China, as the host of the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, will hold the first APEC Senior Officials' Meeting and related sessions in Guangzhou from February 1 to 10, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said here Wednesday. Spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a regular news briefing that this marks the first official event of the APEC "China Year."
Zhu Junqiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and dean of the newly established School of Space Exploration, told the Global Times on Wednesday that the launch of the school aims to address the urgent need for talent cultivation and the facility will train a new type of interdisciplinary talent who possesses scientific thinking, engineering awareness, and the ability to integrate disciplines such as engineering thermophysics, astronomy, and more.
Twin giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, born and raised at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan, safely arrived at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport early Wednesday morning and were subsequently transferred to the Ya'an Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Panda (CCRCGP) in Sichuan Province, Southwest China, where they entered quarantine, the center said in a statement released on its Weibo account on Wednesday.
Xi replies to veterans of Zimbabwe's national liberation war
Peaceful reunification would create enormous opportunities for Taiwan's socioeconomic development, and with the strong backing of the motherland, every aspect of Taiwan region including infrastructure construction would improve significantly, Zhang Han, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, told a press conference on Wednesday.
Japan bears historical responsibility to the Chinese people on the Taiwan question, having committed innumerable heinous crimes during its 50 years of colonial rule over the Taiwan region. The recent remarks of Hsieh Chang-ting, head of the "Taiwan-Japan Relations Association," disregard history and betray their roots, once again exposing the servile and traitorous nature of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) politicians who grovel to external forces in exchange for their support, Zhang Han, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Wednesday.
Chinese scientists' recent research suggests that early humans in Central China may have begun using hafted stone tools and other significant technological innovations between about 160,000 and 70,000 years ago, challenging the long-held archaeological view that Paleolithic cultures in East Asia were technologically conservative and slow to innovate, according to a press release sent to the Global Times on Wednesday by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Science(CAS).
Regarding claims on social media that China has “officially banned all Israeli tourists from entering the country,” a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Israel said the claim is completely false.
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers the risk of further spread of Nipah infection from the Indian cases is low, adding that there is no evidence yet of increased human-human transmission, the WHO exclusively responded to the Global Times' email inquiry on Tuesday, following the recent Nipah virus outbreak in India's West Bengal state, which has caused five infections and nearly 100 quarantined.
The Chinese National Disease Control and Prevention Administration on Tuesday said no cases of Nipah virus disease have been detected in China, noting that the current Nipah outbreak in India is mainly occurring in West Bengal, which does not share a land border with China.
On Tuesday, January 27 — International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust—the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders launched a TikTok account under the name "Nanjing Memorial," marking its third overseas social media platform after Facebook and X, in an effort to have another platform for overseas audiences to understand the historical truth, according to a release from the memorial hall.
Japanese fans gathered around Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on Tuesday to bid farewell to the country's last two giant pandas. The twin pandas were transported by truck from the zoo to Narita Airport, where they are scheduled to board a flight back to China on Tuesday evening, potentially resulting in a "panda-less" situation in Japan for the first time in approximately 50 years, according to media reports.
China is inviting journalists from home and abroad to cover the annual sessions of its national legislature and national political advisory body, both of which will be held in March, according to an official statement released Tuesday.
A joint research by Chinese scientists has recently found that the oral nucleoside drug VV116, approved for the treatment of COVID-19, shows significant antiviral activity against Nipah virus, bringing new hope for the prevention and treatment of this emerging fatal infectious disease, according to a statement released on Monday by the Wuhan Institute of Virology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in an X post on Tuesday local time that the Canada-China relationship is "at its best" and "has created massive opportunities for both our peoples."
Chinese researchers have successfully developed an all-superconducting user magnet with a central magnetic field strength of 35.6 teslas - more than 700,000 times that of Earth's magnetic field - setting a new world record for all-superconducting user magnets, the Xinhua news Agency reported on Tuesday.
China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) on Tuesday warned that some foreign entities have been using academic cooperation and public-interest projects as cover to coax domestic institutions into handing over unapproved biological samples, or to secretly export China's biological samples through smuggling or false declarations. Such practices could undermine the country's competitiveness in genetic patents and biopharmaceuticals and, if the samples are exploited for biological weapons or ethnicity-targeted drug research, pose a direct threat to public safety and lives.
“Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) would get lost in Taiwan because they have no access to Google Maps;” “if the accuracy rate of one missile is 70 percent, then the accuracy rate of three missiles is 210 percent;” “The Dnieper River is 120,000 kilometers long”...retired Taiwan regional “military officer” Yu Pei-chen's preposterous and foolish claims once again triggered ridicule from netizens both on the island and the Chinese mainland, with his latest claim that “the PLA could not attack Taiwan because its soldiers would get seasick” being mocked by netizens as a “Master of Comedy” and “being stuck in a mindset from a century ago.”
China possesses the capacity to monitor the Nipah virus through next-generation sequencing (NGS), said Chinese infectious disease expert Zhang Wenhong, financial news site Yicai reported on Monday. In addition to enabling rapid diagnosis and source tracing during outbreaks, NGS also facilitates long-term monitoring of viral evolution, assessment of public health risks, and guidance for medical countermeasures, the report added.
A total of four Chinese nationals were injured in a train-truck collision on Monday in the city of Nemuro in Japan's northern prefecture of Hokkaido, according to the police.
South China's Guangdong Province records over one million newborns annually for six straight years, according to the provincial government work report delivered on Monday during the fifth session of the 14th Guangdong Provincial People's Congress.
As of December 31, 2025, China has recorded over 63,000 organ donation cases nationwide, involving more than 197,000 donated organs, which have successfully saved the lives of over 190,000 recipients, according to the latest data obtained by the Global Times from the China Organ Donation Administrative Center on Monday.
Beijing recorded a new low for the century in terms of the crime rate per 10,000 people in 2025, and the Capital city's criminal case clearance rate hit the highest level in 10 years, and the clearance rate for traditional crimes set a historical new high, Global Times learned from the Beijing police authorities on Monday.
Recently, given the deteriorating public security in Japan, a surge in criminal cases targeting Chinese nationals, and a spate of consecutive earthquakes striking certain regions, causing injuries, and the Japanese government has issued warnings about further quakes, the Chinese Foreign Ministry and Chinese embassy and consulates in Japan on Monday reminded Chinese citizens to refrain from traveling to Japan in the near term as the Chinese New Year draws near, according to a notice released by the Department of Consular Affairs of Chinese foreign ministry on its official WeChat account.
South Korean former Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan was a senior politician of the South Korea who visited China many times leading delegations and made positive contributions to the development of China-South Korea relations. China expresses condolences over his passing and extends sincere sympathies to his family, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun on Monday in response to a media question on the passing of Lee in Vietnam.
Japan's remaining twin pandas to depart for China on Jan. 27
Despite a 4-0 defeat to Japan in the U23 Asian Cup final on Saturday, the Chinese men's national under-23 football team received overwhelming applause for their performance after achieving the runners-up finish, China's best-ever result in the tournament.
The twin giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei currently at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo that are set to be returned to China marked their final day of public viewing on Sunday. Access was limited to visitors selected through an advance lottery, with the most competitive Sunday seeing odds as high as 24.6 to 1, according to NHK. Some Japanese netizens also took to the internet to express their reluctance to part with the pandas.
The Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in East China has unveiled the country's first humanoid diagnostic and treatment robot that deeply integrates non-invasive brain computer interface (BCI) technology, Science and Technology Daily reported on Sunday. The robot is expected to help address long-standing challenges in early intervention of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, bringing good hope to the rehabilitation of more than 13 million autism patients in China.
Two successive cold air masses are set to affect China in the following week from Sunday, triggering frequent temperature fluctuations across many parts of the country especially in the central and eastern regions. Rain and snow are also expected to become more widespread, with snowfall forecast for parts of North China and the Huanghuai region on Sunday, and another potentially stronger round of snow possible in the latter half of next week, according to CCTV News.