Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery analysis by China's Ministry of Water Resources on Monday indicated that glaciers around the Cuojian River impact crater in Nepal could still collapse, the Global Times learned from the ministry on Monday.

Climate warming is accelerating the release of mercury long trapped in glaciers and other frozen environments, with mercury released from melting glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula surging 550 percent since the pre-industrial period, a Chinese scientist told the Global Times, warning that pollutants stored in the high-mountain cryosphere could also be remobilized as glaciers retreat and permafrost thaws.

Chinese scientists have developed a bioconversion system that can turn kitchen waste into protein and fatty acids and lactic acid while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption, effectively transforming waste into valuable resources, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on Monday.

China's cybersecurity police have disclosed 10 typical cases involving online rumors related to the mudslide that hit the Gyirong Port in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, with authorities taking legal action against people who fabricated false disaster information, exaggerated casualty figures and misled the public, in a bid to safeguard the orderly conduct of rescue and relief operations.

China, as one of the founding members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), has consistently expanded the organization's cooperation agenda and contributed to its development, SCO Deputy Secretary-General Ahmad Saidmurodzoda said in a written interview with Xinhua. Established in 2001, the SCO has followed its own path of steady development over the past 25 years, Saidmurodzoda said.

China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) on Monday released details of a case in which a core employee of a military-industrial trading company was lured into serving the foreign intelligence agencies of two countries through seemingly coincidental encounters.

Rescuers are racing against time and the odds in search of survivors after a devastating mudslide, triggered by an ice-rock avalanche in Nepal, hit the border port of Gyirong in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. According to a press conference held by the information office of the regional government on Sunday, the disaster, which occurred on Aug. 26, has claimed the lives of 16 and left 546 people missing as of 6 p.m. Saturday.

The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway is a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative, personally promoted by the heads of state of China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The route begins in Kashgar, located in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and passes through the mountainous terrain of Kyrgyzstan to reach Uzbekistan.

As rescue teams pushed toward the devastated Gyirong Port by land, water and air, and Chinese military transport aircraft ferried emergency supplies to Nepal, authorities in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region continued to reveal details about the deadly August 26 mudslide in Nepal that has left at least 16 dead and 546 missing in China.

Following the Nepal 8.26 mudslide that severely impacted its border areas with China, advanced technologies have been mobilized to support rescue operations, including disaster-information datasets, aerial assets overcoming road and communication blockage, reconnaissance drones surveying the disaster area and searching for stranded people, and satellite remote sensing being used to strengthen disaster monitoring, according to media reports.

A herd of about 50 wild Asian elephants has entered villages in Mohan township, Xishuangbanna in Southwest China's Yunnan Province. Local authorities told the Global Times that drones are being deployed daily to monitor the herd's movements, while an early-warning mechanism has been activated to keep nearby residents informed of the elephants' whereabouts.

In response to public concerns over whether “formaldehyde-treated cabbage” had entered the market, Zhuhai city in South China's Guangdong Province on Sunday released the results of a special inspection, which showed that all samples of Napa cabbage and Chinese flowering cabbage tested negative and met safety standards

China's Ministry of Natural Resources has launched a hazard assessment in the Nepal August 26 mudslide disaster area, preliminarily identifying eight high-risk geological hazard sites, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Sunday, citing the ministry.

Communication signals have reached the core rescue site at the mudslide-hit Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, local officials confirmed Sunday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on Sunday for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026 and a state visit to Kyrgyzstan, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Unlike the usual pattern in which typhoons move northward after making landfall, Typhoon Saudel has taken the rare path of turning southwestward and may even move southward back over the sea, bringing heavy rainfall and increasing the risk of flash floods, media reported on Sunday.

Chinese relief supplies and experts arrived in Nepal by air on Sunday morning, as part of Chinese aid efforts following the deadly mudslide on Wednesday.

A total of 261 foreign nationals from 23 countries have been identified as unaccounted for after a mudslide struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Aug. 26, local authorities said Sunday.

Sixteen people had been confirmed dead and 546 others remained missing as of 6 pm on Saturday after a massive mudslide struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on August 26.

Sixteen people have been confirmed dead and 546 others remain missing as of 6 p.m. Saturday after a mudslide struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Aug. 26, according to the regional government.

"Is anyone there?" Rescuers crouched down together and called out in unison every few meters, as they picked their way through mud, boulders and chunks of rock. Since Saturday morning, the members of the Sichuan provincial fire and rescue corps of the China Search and Rescue team have been carrying out a sweeping search in key areas at the mudslide-stricken border port of Gyirong in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.

China mobilized its national data centers to provide emergency service for the rescue efforts in the disaster-hit areas in Gyirong County in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region after a mudslide struck a port on the China-Nepal border.

Tob Savoeun, a 69-year-old patient here in northwest Cambodia, feels deeply relieved on Saturday after receiving Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatment from Chinese experts, which effectively eased her chronic limb weakness and persistent hip pain.

The local government in Leibo County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, apologized for an incident at a recent education administration meeting in which teachers were subjected to disrespectful treatment, saying it would seriously reflect on the matter. The government has set up a special task force to conduct a comprehensive investigation, according to the government's statement on Friday.

After a mudslide in Nepal struck Gyirong Port along the China-Nepal border in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Wednesday, conventional optical remote-sensing technologies struggled to conduct effective observations due to the area's mountainous and rugged terrain, deep valleys, and persistent cloud and fog. Chinese commercial satellite company Spacety, in collaboration with Dachu Space Technology (Gansu) Co., Ltd, urgently tasked the Shenqi-02 SAR satellite with emergency imaging. Leveraging SAR's all-weather, day-and-night observation capabilities, the satellite penetrated the cloud and fog cover and acquired the second batch of emergency imagery of the disaster-stricken area at 12:41 pm Beijing Time on Friday.

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.

Seven people had been killed, and 554 others remained missing, while two local villagers had been rescued as of 1 a.m. on Saturday after a mudslide struck the Gyirong Port along the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, according to the region's emergency management department.

China's National Health Commission (NHC) on Friday released a statistical bulletin on the country's health development in 2025, which showed that China recorded 7.92 million births last year, with the birth rate declining after a rebound in 2024, Jiangsu News reported on Friday.

A 1-year-old child was recently found with multiple sprouted plant seeds lodged deep inside the ear canal, with doctors at a Beijing hospital removing the foreign objects through surgery, according to Science and Technology Daily on Tuesday.

"The tigers really can't eat anymore!" A post by a netizen recently claimed that Siberian tigers at Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, were undergoing a "light fasting program," along with a notice issued by the park regarding a rotational "fasting" plan across its open-range areas.

A woman in China who bought a potted plant online got far more than she bargained for: Within 18 days, four snakes appeared in her shop, and firefighters later found a number of snake eggs buried in the plant's soil, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

A man surnamed Wang, who accidentally locked himself inside his car trunk and was trapped for five hours in nearly 40 C heat, was eventually located by police after he used his phone's voice assistant to call emergency services, with officers narrowing down his location by listening to changes in the volume of their siren, Sichuan Daily reported.

Imagine a road trip tracing China's winding land borders and coastlines - a journey roughly two-thirds the circumference of the Earth, taking you past glaciers, rugged gorges, forests, waterfalls and oceans. China is working to make this vision a reality.

Jiang Chaoliang, a former member of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery by the Intermediate People's Court in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province on Friday, according to the People's Daily.

A barrier lake that formed upstream of Gyirong Port following a mudslide triggered by a high-altitude glacial collapse has begun to overflow, according to the latest update, CCTV News reported on Friday.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday chaired a Party leadership meeting to deliberate and make arrangements on rescue and relief efforts after a devastating mudslide hit Gyirong county in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.

The first group of six rescuers from the Xizang fire and rescue corps and 15 rescuers and one search dog from the Sichuan fire and rescue corps arrived at the national border gate area within the jurisdiction of Gyirong Port in Xigaze, Southwest China's Xizang Region at around 4:30 pm on Friday, becoming the first professional rescue teams to reach the core area of the mudslide disaster, according to Xinhua News Agency.

‍‍5 dead, 558 missing after mudslide hits border port in China's Xizang‍‍.

Experts and relevant official agencies from China and Nepal have conducted preliminary assessments indicating that the mudslide that hit Gyirong county in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region was triggered by the collapse of a high-altitude glacier in Nepal, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Friday.

The Shenzhou-23 crew aboard China's orbiting space station completed their mission's first series of extravehicular activities on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency.

Xi on Friday chaired a Party leadership meeting to deliberate and make arrangements on rescue and relief efforts after a devastating mudslide hit Gyirong County in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.

Xi, other Chinese leaders mourn victims of Gyirong County mudslide at CPC leadership meeting

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck Longchang City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, at 1:13 p.m. Friday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter was monitored at 29.23 degrees north latitude and 105.22 degrees east longitude. The quake struck at a depth of 13 km.

Development of the robotics industry must be tailored to local conditions and avoid blind imitation and a rushed, herd-like rush, in order to promote the steady and sustainable progress of the sector, an official from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) told a press conference on Friday.

Typhoon Shadel, the 18th typhoon of the year, made landfall in Yuhuan, Taizhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, at around 8:05 am on Friday, bringing torrential downpours to Zhejiang and Fujian Province. The storm is expected to move further inland, bringing widespread and prolonged wind and rain to nine provincial-level regions, including Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan, according to the China Meteorological Administration.

East China's Zhejiang Province raised its typhoon emergency response to Level I, the highest level, at 8 p.m. Thursday as Typhoon Saudel, the 18th typhoon of this year, is forecast to make landfall in the province.

Residents affected by a mudslide in Gyirong County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, have been resettled, and all stranded tourists have been transferred, local authorities said Thursday.

PowerChina-1, China's first dedicated satellite for energy engineering, passed over the disaster-hit Gyirong Port in Gyirong County, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, at 12:48 am on Thursday and successfully obtained the first batch of radar remote-sensing images of the area following the disaster, providing timely data support for disaster assessment, the Global Times learned from the satellite's developer POWERCHINA Chengdu.

"Just found out about this beautiful Chinese perfume company and I need to smell of these so badly." This enthusiastic comment from a netizen overseas on X may sound like a small moment in the vast world of social media, but it captures a much bigger shift: Chinese perfume brands are increasingly moving from simply being seen overseas to being wanted. At the Esxence perfume fair in Milan this summer, the air around several Chinese booths carried notes of tea, osmanthus and agarwood. Visitors stopped to take in the scents, ask questions and browse products from Chinese brands seeking to make their mark in one of the world's most influential perfume markets.

“There's no way I could outrun these grandpas!” “I probably couldn't even beat the last-place finisher!” Such comments poured in from Chinese netizens after 82-year-old Chinese athlete Ding Ming won the M80 (80-84 age group) men's 80-meter hurdles final at the World Masters Athletics Championships (WMAC) in the southern South Korean city of Daegu, reportedly setting a new Asian record.

A mudslide disaster that struck Gyirong Port in Xigaze City, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Wednesday, causing three dead and 558 missing as of Thursday, was triggered by a high-altitude ice avalanche in Nepal, according an expert from China's Ministry of Natural Resources, Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.

“Come to China, it is beautiful!” These were the words American teacher Ronald Sakolsky wanted to deliver most to young people in the US as he wrapped up his trip across North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He offered the very same piece of advice to Chinese youth: “Come across the Pacific Ocean, see the American people, the regular people, are good people and they want peace.”

Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Zhang Maoming expressed his deepest condolences after mudslide in Nepal caused casualties at Gyirong border port in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, saying on X on Thursday that despite significant losses on the Chinese side, China has immediately coordinated emergency supplies and cash assistance to Nepal and will do its utmost to provide further support.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived at Gyirong Township in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region Thursday afternoon, after a massive mudslide hit the area Wednesday morning.

The mudslide disaster in Gyirong county in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region had caused heavy casualties and left many people missing in both China and Nepal. China is maintaining close communication and coordination with Nepal and working together with the Nepalese side on search and rescue operations, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a regular press conference on Thursday.

China's Ministry of Water Resources said that a significant barrier lake has formed near the confluence of the Chhochen Khola and Purepu Tsangpo rivers in Nepal, with its water volume estimated at 2 million cubic meters as of Thursday morning and the lake already overflowing. Another 3 million cubic meters of water is expected to flow into the lake over the next three days, posing a high risk of a breach, China Central Television reported Thursday.

Chinese authorities have mobilized rescue forces on multiple fronts after a devastating mudslide originating on the Nepalese side of the China-Nepal border struck Gyirong Port in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, with emergency responders, the People's Liberation Army, engineering teams, telecom operators and relief organizations rushing personnel, aircraft, equipment and supplies to the disaster area as rescuers race against difficult terrain, continued rainfall and mounting risks of secondary disasters.

The first team of 141 rescuers has arrived at the mudslide-stricken border port of Gyirong in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region Thursday morning after the disaster caused significant casualties along the China-Nepal border, according to China's Ministry of Emergency Management.

Amid the skyscrapers of Shanghai, residents armed with acoustic sensors are teaming up with researchers to track the city's hidden bat population. Zhou Xinran and her 8-year-old daughter are among them. Using a matchbox-sized ultrasound detector linked to Zhou's smartphone, they search for bats in their neighborhood, recording their calls, locations and video footage of sightings.

Three people had been killed, 558 others remained missing, while two local villagers had been rescued as of 8 a.m. on Thursday, after a mudslide struck a port along the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, a local official said at a press conference. Among the missing, 260 have been identified as foreign nationals, according to Norbu Tsering, the first commander of the on-site headquarters. The mudslide, which occurred on the Nepalese side, struck Gyirong Port in Gyirong County, Xizang, on Wednesday morning.

Internet-connected drones, which rely on mobile communication networks for long-range remote control, are widely used in logistics, inspections, urban management and agricultural operations. China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) warned on Thursday of infiltration and attacks targeting such drones by foreign spy agencies.

Chinese authorities have launched full-scale rescue operations after a mudslide in Nepal caused casualties at Gyirong border port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Wednesday morning. The mudslide had left three people dead and 265 others missing as of 8 p.m. Wednesday. The Ministry of Natural Resources activated a Level-II emergency response for geological disasters, the second-highest in China's four-tier emergency response system, and dispatched a working team to the stricken site to guide rescue operations and prevent secondary disasters, sources with the ministry said.

A directing group from the Western Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been dispatched to the Xizang Autonomous Region in southwest China on Thursday morning to coordinate joint rescue operations by military personnel in mudslide-hit Gyirong County.

China continued to ramp up rescue operations on Thursday following a devastating mudslide in Gyirong county, Xigaze, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. A 111-member rescue team was airlifted to the disaster area, a Wing Loong drone was deployed for emergency communications, and a PLA Y-20 transport aircraft carrying a Western Theater Command guidance team was dispatched to coordinate joint rescue efforts. Continued rainfall and the discovery of a barrier lake near Gyirong Port, however, could further complicate operations and raise the risk of secondary disasters.

After a mudslide caused significant casualties along the China-Nepal border, a Chinese expert said that the current rescue efforts are facing great challenges, including the uncertainty over the stability of the landslide source area and the narrow terrain, according to CCTV News on Wednesday.

As the lights dimmed at Beijing's National Speed Skating Oval, known as the “Ice Ribbon,” five days of racing, jumping and competing drew to a close. Yet the records set and limits pushed on the field offered a glimpse of an increasingly bright future for China's embodied AI industry.

Three people have been found dead and 265 missing as of 8 pm on Wednesday after a mudslide that struck Gyirong county, Xigaze, in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on the day, according to the local authority of Xigaze.

3 dead, 265 missing after mudslide hits border port in China's Xizang

Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Wednesday activated a Level I emergency response following a massive mudslide on the Nepal side that caused major casualties and people to go missing at Gyirong Port in Gyirong county in the region, according to local media reports.

Typhoon Narra, the 19th typhoon of 2026, weakened into a tropical depression after making multiple landfalls in South China's Guangdong Province on Wednesday, but meteorological experts warned that weakening winds do not mean the danger has passed, as its residual circulation is expected to join forces with powerful Typhoon Saudel to bring successive rounds of torrential rainfall to southern and eastern China.

A fire at the construction site of the Amur Gas Chemical Complex (AGCC) in Russia's Far Eastern Amur Oblast has left seven people dead, including one Russian national and 6 Chinese nationals, while 152 people were injured and nine workers remain missing, according to the latest information released by the company on Wednesday. A staff member from the Chinese Consulate General in Khabarovsk told the Global Times that the consulate has not yet independently confirmed the company's reported figure and is awaiting further updates from a working group it has sent to the site.

A total of 145 officers and soldiers from the Xigaze detachment of the People's Armed Police have been sent to the mudslide-hit border port to assist with emergency response operations after a mudslide struck near Gyirong Port in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Wednesday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out efforts to search and rescue people who are missing after a mudslide in Nepal caused casualties at Gyirong border port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Wednesday morning.

A mudslide struck near Gyirong Port in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Wednesday, with people feared missing, the Xinhua News Agency cited local authorities as saying.

A mudslide struck near Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Wednesday, with people feared missing, local authorities said.

Several Chinese universities have announced plans to allow students to bring pets onto campus to live with them as part of efforts to create more “pet-friendly” environments, a move that has drawn mixed reactions online.

The mainland Taiwan Affairs Office on Wednesday slammed Taiwan regional leader Lai Ching-te for once again promoting separatist rhetoric and attempting to seek “Taiwan independence” through military means, while expressing appreciation for Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's recent remarks affirming that Taiwan is part of China.

China is working to promote sustained economic development toward new and higher-quality growth with positive momentum, and striving to ensure a sound start to the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), said Wang Changlin, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, on Tuesday.

Senior Captain Zhai Shichen, spokesperson for the PLA Southern Theater Command (STC)，stated that from August 21 to 25, naval and air units of the PLA STC conducted a routine patrol in the South China Sea. In an attempt to stir up troubles in the South China Sea, the Philippines co-opted countries outside the region to conduct so-called joint patrols, disrupting peace and stability in the region.

After a Chengdu-based institute mistakenly issued a magnitude-7.7 alert for an earthquake later measured at magnitude 4.7, the China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said in a statement on Wednesday that the institute had repeatedly issued earthquake early warnings to the public in violation of regulations. The administration had held talks with the institute multiple times and ordered it to rectify the violations, but it failed to make the required corrections.

China's poverty alleviation outcomes have been steadily consolidated and expanded, with rural per capita income showing a stable rise, a State Council report has revealed. The report on consolidating poverty alleviation achievements and advancing rural revitalization was submitted for deliberation at the ongoing session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, which opened on Tuesday.

A Chinese female student who had been missing for several days was found dead, the Chinese Consulate General in Busan said on Tuesday after verification with local police, who have arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of murder, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Typhoon Narra, the 19th typhoon of the year, made landfall along the coast of Changjiang county in South China's Hainan Province at around 6:40 pm on Tuesday, after bringing heavy rainfall and flooding to southern regions, triggering evacuation of 50,000 people across Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Fire broke out on Amur Gas Chemical Complex (AGCC) project in Russia's Amur Oblast, causing significant casualties, including a Chinese contract worker at the site, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

A drone carrying daily necessities takes off from a low-altitude smart logistics base to deliver supplies to vessels operating on the Yangtze River at a port in Tongling, East China's Anhui Province, on August 25, 2026. In recent years, the area has leveraged the opportunities presented by low-altitude economy and its strategic location along the Yangtze River to provide fast, drone-based delivery of supplies to passing vessels. Photo: VCG

Chinese lawmakers began reviewing a draft law on combating cross-border corruption on Tuesday, a legislation which experts believe would help close legal gaps in investigating overseas corruption, pursuing fugitives and recovering illicit assets, while strengthening international cooperation and corporate compliance.

US YouTube sensation @IShowSpeed was stunned by video of a Chinese humanoid robot scoring goals and performing the iconic "SIU" celebration of Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo, saying he wanted to return to China.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been dubbed as “China inbound tourism ambassador” by Chinese netizens after he “highly recommends” a visit to Shanghai in response to photos shared by his mother, Maye Musk, during her latest trip to the city.

A recent report by recruitment platform shows surging demand for AI talent among fresh graduates in 2027, with starting salaries for top algorithm roles standing at 27,000 yuan ($4,015) a month.

China on Tuesday launched a Long March-6C carrier rocket, placing seven satellites into space. The rocket blasted off at 11:21 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province and successfully sent the satellites into the planned orbit. This launch marked the 665th flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series, according to the launch center.

A total of about 12,700 people had been evacuated in northeast China's Liaoning Province by Monday morning, as torrential rain battered the region since Sunday morning, local authorities said. Heavy to torrential rains lashed southeastern Liaoning from 8 a.m. Sunday to 11 a.m. Monday, with downpours in some areas, while northern and western parts of the province saw light to moderate rain and localized heavy to torrential rains in a few spots.

Four Thai men have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a Chinese woman from a Bangkok hotel and attempting to take her to the Thai-Myanmar border area, Thai authorities said. The Chinese Embassy in Thailand confirmed on Tuesday that the woman is a Chinese national and has been properly accommodated, while the embassy is assisting police with the investigation, CCTV News reported Tuesday.

The 32nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Ministerial Meeting will be held on Sept. 4 in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Monday.

On Monday afternoon, Ronald Sakolsky, an American teacher, set foot once again on the soil of the Mu Us Desert, in the Uxin Banner of Ordos, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He first came here in 2000. Back then, the land was little more than drifting sand. Today, it is green with trees – a transformation driven by decades of local effort.

At the Ordos Ejin Horo International Airport in Ordos, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Yin Yuzhen, a nationally recognized hero in desertification prevention and control and her US friend “Sai Kaosi” (whose real name is Ronald Sakolsky) embraced each other in tears.

On Monday afternoon, American teacher Ronald Sakolsky visited the homeland of Chinese desert fighter Yin Yuzhen in Uxin Banner of Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. This was a place the American man had visited in 2000 and it has completely changed since then.

China's National Commission for Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief and the Ministry of Emergency Management activated a Level-IV national disaster relief emergency response for South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday after Typhoon Narra, the 19th typhoon of this year, caused severe flooding in the region that led to passenger train suspensions. A working group was sent to the affected areas to assess damage and assist with evacuations, resettlement and basic relief efforts, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday.

China's cyberspace regulator has shut down more than 7,200 illegal group livestreaming rooms and penalized over 2,200 accounts as part of an intensified crackdown on misconduct in online group livestreaming entertainment. The campaign targets vulgar content, mechanisms designed to encourage excessive tipping, and infringements on minors' rights.

The Chinese Embassy in Panama on Saturday rejected remarks by #US officials that sought to smear Chinese technology companies, accusing Washington of making baseless allegations and engaging in technological bullying.

After the Institute of Care-life, a Chengdu-based disaster reduction laboratory, mistakenly issued a 7.7-magnitude alert for a 4.7-magnitude earthquake, the Sichuan earthquake agency on Monday accused the institute of using the name of the official earthquake early warning network without authorization, saying its authorization to use the network had already been terminated last month.