The governments of Spain, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay have issued a joint statement on Sunday, expressing “deep concern and rejection of the military actions carried out unilaterally on Venezuelan territory,” as “these actions constitute an extremely dangerous precedent for peace and regional security and endanger the civilian population,” according to the joint statement in English on the website of Colombian Foreign Ministry website.

China's first astronaut cave-training mission has been accomplished in southwestern Chongqing Municipality, with 28 astronauts taking part.

US President Donald Trump's fresh claim of US "absolutely" needing Greenland for defense has met immediate opposition from leaders of Denmark and Greenland, who urged the US to stop threatening to take over the Danish territory.

Hong Kong actress Charmaine Sheh won the Best Actress award for the fourth time at the TVB Anniversary Awards 2025 held in Macao on Sunday, breaking her own record. She also took home the award for Most Popular TVB Actress in the Greater Bay Area, making her the focus of the night. Bosco Wong also clinched his first Best Actor award for the same series, The Queen of News 2.

China's transportation and tourism sectors have experienced significant growth during the 2026 New Year holiday, with a surge in cultural tourism visits and a noticeable uptick in inbound visits.

The Chinese embassy in Cambodia has located a Chinese woman at a hospital in Sihanoukville, who had previously been found stranded on the streets of Cambodia, the embassy said in a statement released on Sunday. According to the embassy, the woman said that she had been lured to the country by the promise of a "high-paying job" before ending up homeless. According to media reports, the woman is an internet celebrity whose short-video platform account had 24,000 followers.

China on Sunday released the fourth batch of generic drugs list aimed at guiding pharmaceutical companies to research and produce them, which includes 21 drug varieties covering 47 specifications across areas such as cancer, neurology, assisted reproduction and diagnostic imaging, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

A fire broke out at Hong Kong's Mei Yue House in Shek Kip Mei Estate on Sunday morning, leaving one person dead and eight others injured from smoke inhalation, as police and the Fire Services Department launched a joint investigation into the victim's identity and the cause of the blaze, according to multiple Hongkong media reports.

On-site visits by reporters with Chinese media in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, on Saturday found that most shops were closed, long queues formed in front of some pharmacies and supermarkets, and some metro lines were not operating normally, after US large-scale attack on the South American country and captured Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro on early Saturday.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife have reportedly landed at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, New York, on Saturday afternoon, per the US media NBC News. Video from an NBC News helicopter appeared to show Maduro walking off a jet around 5:25 pm at an airfield around 50 miles north of Manhattan. He appeared to wear a gray sweatshirt and shackles as he walked down the stairs of the plane and into a hangar, surrounded by federal agents, NBC reported.

US President Donald Trump announced early Saturday that the US had carried out a “large-scale strike against Venezuela,” claiming that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife had been captured and taken out of the country. The announcement quickly drew international attention and was also widely reported by Taiwan regional media.

A social media post drew widespread attention from Chinese netizens recently, with the related hashtag, “woman seeks help online for grandmother's joyful funeral due to small social circle,” trending on Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo, according to Beijing Youth Daily's official WeChat account. On Monday, after the funeral had concluded, the author of the post shared a follow-up message expressing gratitude to netizens for their help and to society for its concern.

The Dawu County People's Court in Xiaogan, Central China's Hubei Province, recently uncovered an attempt by a plaintiff to fabricate evidence using artificial intelligence while hearing a housing lease contract dispute. The court issued a formal reprimand in accordance with the law, demonstrating a zero-tolerance approach to safeguarding judicial authority and litigation integrity, China News Service reported.

Harbin Engineering University on Thursday completed and unveiled its 2025 snowfield artwork depicting China's aircraft carrier the Fujian, flanked by three carrier-based aircraft. More than 1,200 students and faculty members took part in the university's eye-catching year-end artistic creation, which showcases China's progress in major national naval equipment and technology, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday.

A giant Tiananmen-themed wall mural in a village in Central China's Henan Province has recently gone viral online after a young Chinese painter surnamed Wu created the artwork to bring the iconic national landmark to elderly villagers who had never seen Tiananmen in person, China Media Group-owned China National Radio (CNR) reported on Monday.

The Dujiangyan irrigation system in Southwest China's Sichuan Province is the world's only ancient irrigation project still in operation today, and also one of the earliest successful practices of harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature. Over more than 2,000 years, the enduring vitality of Dujiangyan stems not only from its ingenious ancient engineering and sophisticated governance principles, but also from its ability to evolve with the times through the integration of modern technology — particularly its innovative digital twin applications — a testament to the perfect blend of ancient wisdom and today's innovation.

A fire broke out on Friday in Jianban Ancient Town, Muchuan county, Leshan city, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, damaging multiple buildings and sending thick smoke into the air, drawing widespread public attention. Local authorities on Saturday released a report responding to the incident.

Zhang Zhijun, president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), has called on compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to jointly strive for the great cause of national reunification and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

A Chinese mainland official on Friday called for efforts to promote peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Strait and achieve national reunification.

The Chinese Consulate General in Sydney said on Friday that it has confirmed the death of a Chinese citizen who was swept into the sea near Sydney on Thursday.

Be it the New Year's Eve night tours at 25 museums in Beijing or the more than 70 intangible cultural heritage events across East China's Fujian Province, diverse cultural tourism activities, rich with regional character, have been launched nationwide since midnight, offering immersive cultural experiences throughout the ongoing three-day New Year's Day holidays in China.

The New Year's address delivered by Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te was filled with lies and nonsense, hostility and malice, and once again peddled the fallacy of "Taiwan independence," and incited cross-Straits confrontation, a Chinese mainland spokesperson said on Thursday.

The Chinese Embassy in Australia on Thursday criticized a statement issued by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as distorting facts and confusing right and wrong and urged Australia to abide by its political commitments on Taiwan.

A series of new laws and regulations will take effect in China starting in January 2026, focusing on various social sectors such as public security, cybersecurity, and national park development.

As the world celebrates the coming of 2026, international leaders have welcomed the New Year with greetings.

On December 31, the successful launch of the Long March-7A carrier rocket delivered the Shijian-29 satellite into orbit. With this mission, the state-owned space giant China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has completed a record of 73 space launch missions throughout 2025, the CASC said in a release.

A special exhibition featuring more than 5,000 donated artifacts and historical materials opened Wednesday in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, aiming to expose the atrocities committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, a notorious Japanese germ-warfare unit during World War II.

China's National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) will launch a nationwide, month-long special campaign starting January 1, 2026, to curb the spread of improperly altered "AI mashup" videos, according to a notice released by the administration on Wednesday.

When you see the words “Farewell 2025,” don't you feel a little astonished – has the last day of 2025 really arrived? After all, the feverish run of Ne Zha 2 still feels like it happened only yesterday. Yet, though time slips away and the years fly, the Global Times, as in years past, strives to look back – through the lens of a Chinese media – at the defining events that marked China and the world in 2025, and to tell what kind of year 2025 proved to be. This marks the very first time we have translated such an annual retrospective report into English.

Editor's Note: Witness the AI-powered fusion of the ancient Chinese culture with China's modern tech breakthroughs in 2025. From “Kuafu” chasing the sun in Chinese legend to milestone advances in China's next-generation "artificial sun" technology; from mythological figure Sun Wukong, known as Monkey King, to Origin Wukong quantum computer, feel the Chinese-style romance when modern tech marvels echo Chinese culture.

In response to media inquiry over the latest "Justice Mission 2025" joint military drills conducted by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command, which have drawn considerable attention and triggered strong reactions on the island of Taiwan, State Council Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Zhang Han said on Wednesday that the PLA's military operations constitute a stern warning to “Taiwan independence” separatist forces and to external forces interfering in China's internal affairs. They are necessary and just measures to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.

China sent two new satellites into orbit on Wednesday from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-1945) and the World Anti-Fascist War. Winning the war is a great victory of the national spirit with patriotism at its core, a great victory achieved with the Communist Party of China (CPC) fighting as the central pillar, a great victory fought by the whole nation through solidarity and bravery, and a great victory for the Chinese people, anti-fascist allies and people around the world who fought shoulder-to-shoulder.

The annual central rural work conference was held from Monday to Tuesday in Beijing, mapping out priorities for the country's rural work in 2026, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Chinese leaders attended a 2026 New Year gala featuring traditional opera on Tuesday evening in Beijing.

A cerebral palsy player competed in a Chinese chess competition while wearing a non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) device, marking the world's first competitive application of non-invasive BCI technology in a national-level public sports event, domestic media outlet Jiemian News reported on Tuesday.

A man from Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, has been placed under administrative detention for verbally harassing a female customer at a noodle restaurant, according to a statement local police released on its official Weibo account on Tuesday evening.

All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC) urged Panama's Arraiján local government to implement the President's directive of reconstruction, heed to appeals from local people and the Chinese community, rectify its mistakes as the local authorities' demolition of the Chinese monument on Saturday had encountered strong opposition, according to a post released on its official WeChat account on Monday.

The 11th National Congress of the Buddhist Association of China was held in Beijing from December 28 to 29, 2025, according to a report published on the official WeChat account of the Buddhist Association of China on Tuesday.

China has bolstered oversight of map market, enhancing public awareness of the national territory through inspections of illegal “problematic maps,” while promoting the global sharing of geographic information. This reflects its commitment to the international resource collaboration, China's Ministry of Natural Resources announced during a press briefing on Tuesday while summarizing the significant accomplishments in surveying, mapping, and geographic information work during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25).

China sent a new satellite into space on Tuesday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a New Year's message at 7 p.m. Wednesday to ring in 2026.

The Indian film Battle of Galwan, which claims to be based on the 2020 clashes between Indian and Chinese troops in the Galwan region and is scheduled for release in April 2026, had its trailer released by lead actor Salman Khan on December 27, sparking online controversy on Monday.

Editor's Note: To continuously observe how China is perceived by the world, the Global Times once again launched the "Global Survey on Impression and Understanding of China," covering 46 countries and about 51,700 respondents. The survey found that Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era receives high international recognition. International community's favorability toward China continues to rise, with growing expectations for China to play a greater role. Following the release of the survey results, it sparked positive responses, with several Chinese and foreign scholars analyzing various factors contributing to the sustained improvement of China's international image.

Multiple forces of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) started drills code-named "Justice Mission 2025" around Taiwan Island on Monday, said Shi Yi, spokesperson for the theater command.

The PLA Eastern Theater Command released a micro-video on its official Sina Weibo account titled “So Near, So Beautiful — Anytime to Taipei” on Monday evening. Apart from showcasing warplanes and naval vessels as well as Taiwan's scenery including Central Range, the video also shows a view of Taipei 101.

The west artificial island of Shenzhen–Zhongshan Link, a mega project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, officially opened to the public on Monday after a two-month trial operation that began on October 25, China Central Television (CCTV) News reported Monday.

With the support of the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines, law enforcement authorities from China and the Philippines worked in close coordination and successfully apprehended Shi Chunfang, the suspect who is involved in multiple cases of kidnapping and murder of Chinese nationals, China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said on Monday via its official WeChat account.

The polar research icebreaker Xuelong carrying out China's 42nd Antarctic scientific expedition, successfully reached the waters near the Qinling Station on Monday Beijing time and commenced cargo unloading operations, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Military activities, including live-fire exercises conducted by relevant countries in the waters around China's Huangyan Dao (also known as Huangyan Island) in the South China Sea from the 1960s to the 1970s, caused damage to its coral reefs; Moreover, illegal fishing and frequent incursions by relevant countries in recent years have posed significant threats to the health of Huangyan Dao's ecology, according to a survey report on the coral reef ecology of Huangyan Dao released by China's Ministry of Natural Resources on Monday.

China on Monday released a survey report on the coral reef ecosystem of Huangyan Dao, which is located in Sansha City of the southernmost Hainan Province.

In 2025, the world is undergoing accelerated transformation amid rising turbulence and uncertainty. The interconnectedness between China's development and the global landscape continues to grow, with China exerting increasingly profound and positive influence on global growth, technological transformation, and global governance. To continuously observe how China is perceived by the world, the Global Times once again launched the “Global Survey on Impression and Understanding of China,” covering 46 countries and about 51,700 respondents, to objectively, comprehensively, and accurately understand how foreign public perceives, understands, and evaluates China.

The public security bureau of Guangde, East China's Anhui Province, recently cracked a case in which individuals deliberately stepped on the martyrs' tomb during a livestream, and detained two people, according to a release of China's Ministry of Public Security News Media Center on Sunday.

Local governments across China have ramped up efforts with focusing agenda of the upcoming 2026, the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), with provinces and major cities highlighting booming sectors, ranging from artificial intelligence (AI) to humanoid robots and the low-altitude economy as focuses of development ahead.

As year 2025 draws to a close amid global turbulence, China's diplomacy has sent a clear signal: its neighborhood has become an anchor of its foreign policy. From intensive head-of-state diplomacy and multilateral summits to crisis mediation and economic cooperation, Beijing has prioritized stability, development and partnership with surrounding countries - positioning itself as both a driver of regional prosperity and a stabilizing force at a time when protectionism and geopolitical uncertainty are plaguing the world.

"We hope to once again open the window to history and build a bridge for peace," Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party chairperson Cheng Li-wun said on Sunday, reiterating that the only principles to uphold are the 1992 Consensus and voicing opposition to "Taiwan independence", according to Taiwan-based media reports.

Experiencing wolf culture, learning to craft traditional ski tools, enjoying the sunset and music at a mountaintop ski resort... These are examples of how Altay, a popular ski destination in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, blends ice and snow with new scenarios, providing diverse experiences to invigorate winter tourism.

The annual Shanghai-Taipei City Forum was held on Sunday in Shanghai under the theme of "technology transforms life," which is seen by Chinese observers as an important and valuable opportunity for communication across the Taiwan Straits amid Taiwan regional authorities' disruption attempts.

China is willing to provide humanitarian supplies to Cambodia for the settlement of displaced people in border areas, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Yuxi City, southwest China's Yunnan Province on Sunday.

Local police said on Monday that a preliminary probe has found the incendiary device was homemade by the perpetrator, who set off a combustion and explosion outside an automobile sales and service shop in Chengdu High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, resulting in one fatality and four on-site injuries on Sunday.

The "Blue Future" project achievements report salon, hosted by the Global Times and co-organized by the China Oceanic Development Foundation, was held at Guangyang Academy in Beijing on Friday. Under the theme "Blue Echoes · Port Stories," the event shared a series of outcomes from the Global Times' 2025 reports on ports development and discussed implementation plans for marine-city promotional activities in 2026. Guests from government departments, social organizations, universities and the media reviewed and summarized the highlights and achievements of the work and looked ahead to new directions for telling China's maritime story.

A 6-ton-class tiltrotor aircraft—the world's first of its kind—named the Lanying R6000 and independently developed by a Chinese company, successfully completed its maiden flight on Sunday in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, the Global Times learned from the company.

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) held the Conference on Medical Transformation and Clinical Application of Nuclear Technology on Saturday in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, and jointly announced with the Suzhou government that China's first nuclear medicine demonstration base—the phase II project of the Xuguan campus of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University (the General Hospital of nuclear industry)—has been officially put into operation.

A court in Xiaogan, Central China's Hubei Province, recently uncovered a plaintiff's attempt to fabricate photographic evidence using artificial intelligence tool while hearing a residential lease dispute, and subsequently issued a formal admonishment in accordance with the law, China News Service reported on Sunday.

An unemployed man in Qianjiang, Central China's Hubei Province was detained after allegedly stopping a car with a toy gun while intoxicated on Friday night, according to a notice released by local police on Saturday.

China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) released Sunday three cautionary cases on the risks of sharing job details online, including one in which an overseas espionage agency posed as a young, attractive female netizen trying to probe for internal information from an employee of a military-affiliated unit.

China's first subway line passing through a karst spring area began operation on Saturday in Jinan City of east China's Shandong Province, marking an engineering breakthrough that balances urban transit demands with the protection of natural water resources.

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck the waters off Yilan County, Taiwan, at 11:05 p.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).

An investigation report on a major accident at China Gold Group Inner Mongolia Mining Co. that caused six deaths was released on Saturday, and the report recommends holding 42 individuals accountable.

One female mouse, among the four experimental mice previously sent into space aboard the Shenzhou-21 crewed spacecraft, conceived and delivered nine pups around 6:00 am on December 10 after returning to Earth , China's state-owned broadcaster CCTV News reported on Saturday, citing the information from the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

China on Saturday sent a new satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the country's southwestern Sichuan Province.

From combating desertification to rescuing injured wildlife, from day-to-day conservation efforts to China's growing profile at global climate summits, Global Times reporters followed China's ecological progress throughout 2025 – from the deserts of the north-western frontier to the biodiverse Qinghai-Tibet Plateau – to observe first-hand China's steady steps toward building of Beautiful China.

“It is like standing in Beijing and throwing a basketball into a fixed hoop in Shanghai; the level of precision required is similarly demanding,” Wei Yuanming of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) told the Global Times when he was illustrating the exciting and highly challenging Tianwen-2 mission in Xichang, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, in May, ahead of the launch of the first asteroid probe and sampling mission.

In a groundbreaking moment for wildlife conservation, camera traps in the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park (NCTLNP) captured the China's first footage of a wild Siberian tigress with five cubs in November, the Global Times learned from the World Wide Fund of Nature (WWF) on Friday.

The public security bureau of Fu'an city, East China's Fujian Province, issued a police briefing on Thursday evening regarding a fatal altercation at a local market involving a suspect ramming another man with his body, causing the victim to dead.

China launched a Long March-8A carrier rocket on Friday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a group of internet satellites into space.

China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) warned on Friday that a foreign anti-China hostile force used deepfake technology to produce fabricated videos and attempted to disseminate them inside China to mislead public opinion and create panic, posing a threat to China's national security.

The Fujian coast guard has recently conducted law enforcement patrols in waters near Kinmen in accordance with the law, a spokesperson for a regional bureau of the China Coast Guard said on Thursday.

A car plunged into a river from a construction trestle at the Xijiang Railway Bridge in Heshan of Jiangmen city, South China's Guangdong Province, on December 13, killing all five family members inside the vehicle, Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday, citing local authorities.

The combined effect of the Christmas and New Year holidays, facilitated by China's convenient visa policies, has driven up the nation's inbound tourism market and cross-border passenger flows, as data from multiple ports indicate that inbound passenger numbers have continued to rise in recent days, with market confidence and activity picking up markedly.

A joint operation by China, Myanmar, and Thailand has struck gambling and telecom fraud zones in Myanmar's Myawaddy region, demolishing 494 buildings related to crimes at the KK Park, completely clearing the Yatai New City fraud hub, with 952 Chinese suspects extradited back to China, according to a Thursday release on the WeChat account of China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) Criminal Investigation Bureau.

The phrase “the US kill line” has gone viral on Chinese social media in recent days, igniting extensive discussion about economic vulnerability and systemic risk within American society. The term is now used among netizens to describe a precarious financial state in which individuals or households have virtually no margin for error—where a single shock can trigger rapid and potentially irreversible collapse.

After the Chinese mainland's public security authorities issued wanted notice for two individuals from the island of Taiwan on the illegal smuggling case involving Hongtai 58 incident, the China Central Television (CCTV) reveal in a program aired on Thursday the truth behind the Hongtai 58 incident: an accident involving a smuggling ship was manipulated into a political conspiracy.

In response to a media inquiry concerning that Honduras' National Electoral Council announced the vote count results on December 24 and declared National Party candidate Nasry Asfura the country's newly elected president, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said China respects the choice of the Honduran people and stands ready to work with Honduras, on the basis of the one-China principle, to continue advancing bilateral relations.

Recently, during a maglev experiment conducted by the maglev team of China's National University of Defense Technology, a ton-class test vehicle was successfully accelerated to 700 kilometers per hour within just two seconds, state broadcaster CCTV News reported on Thursday.

Civil affairs authorities in Shanghai's Hongkou district released a notice on their official WeChat account on Wednesday, stating that the Shanghai Hongkou District People's Court has designated the Hongkou district civil affairs bureau as the estate administrator of Jiang Ting, who died on December 14 at age 46.

Dawa district people's court in Panjin of Northeast China's Liaoning Province on Thursday delivered a first-instance verdict in the case of defendant Zhang, who was charged with abusing children under her care, the China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Thursday.

Rescuers have retrieved four bodies and three people are still missing following a suspected coal and gas outburst at a coal mine on Wednesday in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said Thursday.

Individual so-called human rights experts have entirely no respect for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) court's independent judgment, which had been made on the basis of facts and evidence, said a spokesperson of the HKSAR government on Wednesday, expressing dissatisfaction with and opposition to the unfounded comments after the court of the HKSAR convicted Lai Chee-ying (Jimmy Lai) of offences of endangering national security in strict accordance with the law and evidence.

A gas outburst struck a coal mine at around 6 p.m. Wednesday in Zhenxiong County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said on Thursday.

A decade ago, biodiversity monitoring often required researchers to haul heavy equipment across rugged mountains and vast grasslands. Today, a quiet revolution is unfolding as satellites scan from orbit, sensors perch atop towers, drones skim treetops and mobile laboratories traverse the ground.

China's three deep-sea manned submersibles have completed 1,746 dives to date, the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering under the Chinese Academy of Sciences said on Wednesday.

When you ask OpenAI's ChatGPT, "What is a civilization country," the AI-driven tool provides an explanation that "A civilization country is a concept used mainly in political theory and international relations to describe a country whose identity, legitimacy and governance are rooted in a long, continuous civilization, rather than primarily in modern nation-state ideas like ethnicity, borders or ideology."

The jacket, a core piece of equipment for the Inch Cape offshore wind power project, with a total weight exceeding 10,000 tons, was delivered in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province, on Tuesday. It is the largest single-unit-capacity offshore wind power jacket foundation built by China for Europe, marking a major breakthrough in China's core manufacturing capabilities for offshore wind power equipment, China Central Television reported on Tuesday, citing China National Offshore Oil Corporation.

Shenzhen Metro Construction Company Co., Ltd. issued an official statement on Wednesday, confirming a woman and her filming team had entered an under-construction metro tunnel without authorization, and parties involved have been given corresponding punishment.

Amid strained China-Japan relations triggered by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's erroneous remarks on Taiwan and dangerous moves, some Hong Kong media outlets reported that many Hong Kong study tour agencies have received a large number of requests from schools to cancel trips to Japan. The number of cancelled Japan tour groups has currently reached double digits, the report said.

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit Taitung County of China's Taiwan at 5:47 p.m. Wednesday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).

A 3D uterus embryo implantation simulation chip developed by a Chinese research team has, for the first time, fully replicated the entire process of human embryo implantation in a laboratory setting, offering new hope for identifying the causes of repeated failures in assisted reproduction, according to the CCTV News on Wednesday.

In response to some public concerns over the newly revised version of the Law on Penalties for Administration of Public Security, which involves sealing individual records containing petty offenses such as those relating to drug use, a spokesperson for the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee said on Wednesday that implementing a system for sealing records of public security violations would help reduce and prevent situations in which “a single punishment leads to lifelong restrictions,” and would also provide practical experience for the possible future establishment of a system for sealing records of minor criminal offenses, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Straits all belong to the Chinese nation and are all Chinese, said Peng Qing'en, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office on Wednesday's press conference, in response to the recent claims made by Kolas Yotaka, an indigenous person and "former spokesperson" for the Taiwan regional leader's office, who at a book launch event claimed that she was "not Chinese," asserted that there is no such ethnic group as the "Chinese nation," and alleged that Taiwan is currently facing a so-called "threat from the mainland."