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China released a mandatory national standard for autonomous driving system safety on Tuesday, which will take effect on July 1, 2027.

This man really knows how to balance his diet A man in Shandong Province turns his head into a watermelon tower, balancing eight of them one on top of the other in this video released on Saturday, August 1. Then he eats a ninth one-handed, because apparently that wasn't hard enough already. (Note: Don't try this at home without hollowed-out melons!) (Produced by Wang Ruofan and intern Zhang Sisi)

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.During the Long March (1934-1936), Mao Zedong and his comrades reached Yan'an in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, where they established the Communist Party of China (CPC)

China is expected to see 2 to 3 typhoons making landfall or bringing notable impacts in August, according to the latest climate forecast made by meteorological authorities on Tuesday.

Data from an online box office tracker showed that China's 2026 summer box-office earnings, including presales, had surpassed 7.5 billion yuan (about $1.1 billion) as of Tuesday – the latest sign that the country's film market is sizzling with energy and momentum.

Passengers boarding a themed sightseeing train in eastern Chinese city of Fuzhou last week stepped into a carriage that felt more like a classical Chinese garden.

The Ministry of Water Resources said on Tuesday that it has maintained a Level-IV emergency flood response for Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality, both in southwest China, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in the northwest, and Heilongjiang Province in the northeast.

China's foreign trade has kept on gaining steam. Following the "new three" (NEVs, lithium batteries, and PV), a "next new three"—artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and innovative medicine —is emerging as the new growth driver.