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At the height of summer, with the arrival of Major Heat, the final solar term of the season, American Emma Chen follows an ancient Chinese way of staying cool: drinking unfermented Pu'er tea.

In Fiji, coconut husks are often treated as waste. After coming to China, Koroi Dionisia Puleiwai Lewanavanua Marama discovered another possibility for them.

As the midday sun rays glide over the exquisite carvings of the main entrance of Moscow's Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, rows of elegant retro and modern cars await visitors to admire their sleek designs and learn their remarkable history.

At noon, 55-year-old Wei Xianyang sits down at his workbench at the Academy of Painting and Calligraphy in Nanling county, Wuhu, east China's Anhui Province. The moment he starts working, he seems glued to his chair, his back slightly hunched and his eyes shining with concentration.The craft he

In recent years, more and more global visitors have come to China and seen the country for themselves. Through firsthand experience, they saw a China that is starkly different from the image long distorted by some Western media. Such people-to-people exchanges grounded in firsthand experience have b

Across the fertile black soil of Heilongjiang, autonomous tractors work tirelessly, while intelligent drones fly overhead to monitor crop growth.Powered by smart farming solutions, technological upgrading is reshaping the heartland of China's granary in the province, bolstering the country's food

Unmanned operations and smart technologies are reshaping the modern battlefield. No longer mere reconnaissance platforms, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operate in deep coordination with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force, Navy and Army. They connect the dots between spotting a target and hitting it, collecting and making sense of large volumes of sensor data to support joint operations across the services, turning intelligence into a battlefield edge.

An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 2, 2026 shows the exposed riverbed of the Danube River in Dunaszentbenedek, Hungary.