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."
Multiple legal experts have clarified that claims saying "sending obscene photos or videos to friends is illegal" are a misinterpretation, noting that it is neither a newly added provision of China's Law on Penalties for Administration of Public Security nor a future focus of law enforcement, after some media earlier reported that such behavior would be illegal starting next year and punished by up to 15 days' detention, China Central Television (CCTV) News reported.
When asked to comment on a joint press conference held on Friday by the Kuomintang (KMT) caucus and the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) caucus, during which they announced a proposal to impeach Lai Ching-te, as well as an online petition to impeach Lai launched on the island that has reportedly garnered participation from more than 8 million people, Peng Qing'en, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said at a Wednesday press conference that they had noted the relevant reports. The Lai authorities, disregarding the well-being of people on the island in pursuit of political self-interest, have continuously manipulated and stirred up political confrontation, triggering strong opposition among Taiwan residents.
The collusion and mutual abetment between "Taiwan independence" forces and anti-China forces precisely expose their guilty conscience and fear in the face of the unsheathed sword against "Taiwan independence." There will be no space whatsoever for any form of "Taiwan independence" separatist activity, and China will never allow any external forces to aid or abet such actions or interfere in China's internal affairs, Peng Qing'en, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Wednesday.
Following mainland public security investigations, two Taiwan residents, surnamed Chien and Chen, were identified as repeat smuggling offenders who controlled vessels including the Hongtai 58 to carry out long-term smuggling of frozen goods into the mainland. Public security authorities have issued wanted notices for the two individuals, hoping that compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Straits will actively provide clues related to illegal and criminal activities, Peng Qing'en, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said on Wednesday.
Eight people were killed after their vehicle fell into a pond in Pengze County, east China's Jiangxi Province, local police said on Wednesday.
China deposited with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Dec. 15 an instrument of ratification of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction, according to documents published on the official website of the United Nations on Tuesday.
It is for sure that China's high quality development has been and will continue to share growth dividends with the world, observers said, noting that its capacity as "an empowering country" to inspire and vitalize others lies in China's unwavering practices in opening-up and cooperation, as well as its vision of building a community with a shared future for humanity.
China has made a new breakthrough in quantum computing, as its superconducting quantum computing prototype "Zuchongzhi 3.2" achieved quantum error correction below the fault-tolerance threshold on a surface code with a code distance of seven, according to a report by Science and Technology Daily.
A man in island of Taiwan named Chang Wen carried out a random attack in Taipei on December 19, causing heavy casualties before falling to his death, with prosecutors and police conducting an autopsy on his body in Taipei on Tuesday. Chang's parents gave their first media interview, repeatedly apologizing and kneeling to express remorse to the public and the victims' families, according to media outlets in the island of Taiwan including CNA and United Daily News on Tuesday.
A recent medical incident involving the death of an infant after surgery at the Women and Children's Hospital of Ningbo University has drawn public attention. Attaching great importance to this incident, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government have dispatched a working group to strengthen supervision over the follow-up handling of the case, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Tuesday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) directly administered by the central government to better serve the overall work of the Party and the country and contribute more to Chinese modernization.
China launched Long March-12A reusable rocket at the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation Test Zone at 10 am on Tuesday. The second stage of the rocket entered the preset orbit, but the first stage recovery failed. The cause is under further analysis and investigation, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
China launched the Long March-12A Y1 carrier rocket on Tuesday from northwest China. Its second stage entered the designated orbit, but the recovery of its first stage failed.
The five people trapped in a coal mine accident on Sunday in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province have been confirmed dead, local authorities said on Tuesday.
Kuaishou, one of China's popular short-video platforms, reported the issue to police after explicit content appeared in its livestream channels on Monday night, saying the platform was targeted by illegal and malicious groups. A cybersecurity expert said the disruption reflected a shift toward automated attacks overwhelming traditional manual defenses and should ring an alarm for the industry.
Kuaishou, one of China's popular short-video platforms, reported the issue to police after explicit content appeared in its livestream channels on Monday night, saying the platform was targeted by illegal and malicious groups. A cybersecurity expert said the disruption reflected a shift toward automated attacks overwhelming traditional manual defenses and should ring an alarm for the industry.
China's National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) has formed a working group to investigate issues related to the management of cultural relics at the Nanjing Museum, CCTV reported on Tuesday.
A Chinese national in Cambodia's Battambang Province sustained minor injuries after being caught in artillery fire related to clashes along the Cambodia-Thailand border on Monday. The Chinese Embassy in Cambodia has verified the situation through the individual's employer and conveyed its sympathy, according to a release from the embassy.
Forwarding obscene content to contacts on platforms such as WeChat is illegal, and group chat administrators may face criminal liability if they allow the spread of pornographic material, under China's revised Law on Penalties for Administration of Public Security, which will take effect on January 1, 2026.
Despite persistent concerns among local residents, Japan's Niigata Prefecture on Monday approved the restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world's largest, more than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, according to Japanese media. The plant in Niigata is operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator responsible for the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011.
The key to building the future lunar research station lies in three pillars: in-situ lunar resource acquisition, cluster-enabled collaborative intelligent manufacturing and fully autonomous intelligent operations, said Chen Jie, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Party secretary of Harbin Institute of Technology, at a symposium held at Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL) on Monday.
China's State Council Work Safety Committee Office has dispatched inspection teams in two batches to 12 key regions nationwide to conduct open and covert inspections targeting the screening and sealing of abandoned mine shafts and to crack down on illegal mining activities, Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) briefed the media on Monday on a major robbery incident occurred in Sheung Wan in which a total of $1 billion yen ($6.4 million) was stolen, saying that the police have so far arrested 15 people on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery, including the mastermind and all the perpetrators who carried out the attack, according to local media reports. However, the stolen cash has yet to be recovered, the police said.
A draft law on childcare services was submitted for first reading to the 19th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress on Monday. The law is believed to provide a solid legal foundation for resolving challenges on the childcare services facing Chinese families.
Northeast China's Jilin Province, during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), has achieved significant results in geological prospecting, discovering 47 mineral sites suitable for further exploration and evaluation, identifying and reporting 27 super-large, large, and medium-to-small mineral deposits, local media cnjiwang.com reported on Monday, citing provincial geology and mineral resources authorities.
The tragic death of a 5-month-old baby girl nicknamed "Little Luoxi" after surgery at the Ningbo University Affiliated Women and Children's Hospital in Zhejiang Province continues to attract widespread public attention. Her family said they will pursue a medical malpractice evaluation while appealing rational and restrained public discussion of the case.
Authorities in Shanghai's Hongkou district have released the latest update regarding the posthumous arrangements and estate administration of a 46-year-old woman surnamed Jiang who lived alone and passed away due to illness, saying that if the district civil affairs authority is designated as the estate administrator, it will administer the estate in accordance with the law, with any remaining assets, after statutory procedures, to be used for public welfare purposes.
As 2025 is ending, the world is still far from the tranquil place many had hoped for: conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, resurgent trade tariffs and protectionism, as well as unrelenting extreme weather events. Amid these challenges, China stood out as its governance philosophy and practices, spanning politics, economy, technology, green development and beyond, embody a vision that's both reality-based and future-oriented.