The Global Partnership for Poverty Alleviation and Development (GPPAD), initiated by China together with 53 countries and nine international organizations, was formally launched on May 27 at the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum in Beijing.

Lhasa, a city with centuries of history, lies in a valley, with the Lhasa River flowing right through it. The Potala Palace in Lhasa, the palace complex, Norbulingka and Jokhang Temple were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as the "Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa."

The 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue · Huangshan is currently underway in Anhui Province. During a tour of the iconic Huangshan Mountain, Filippo Gasperi, mayor of Gradara, Italy, expressed his admiration for the advanced exoskeleton suits provided to help tourists ascend the peaks, noting that he looks forward to further discussions on leveraging technology to increase accessibility for people with disabilities at world heritage sites. (Produced by Li Bowen, Lin Rui, and Wang Yuting. Interns Wang Ruonan and Song Qingzheng also contributed to the story.)

Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday, US defence secretary struck a relatively balanced tone in his address, first acknowledging some progress in China-US ties before expressing the usual Western rhetorics over China's military strength.

The 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue · Huangshan is being held in Huangshan, Anhui Province. Mayors and officials from countries including Germany, Nepal and Malaysia took part in tea-picking and tea-tasting activities in Lundu village to get a closer look at how eco-farming is helping boost local farmers' incomes. (Produced by Li Bowen, Lin Rui and Di Jingyuan.)

China has launched a nationwide campaign to establish records for migrant and left-behind children, aiming to enhance the precision of welfare services, said authorities on Saturday.

Hot Take: How local wisdom turned a sand-covered valley green

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday vowed to deepen bilateral ties and uphold multilateralism.

Scientific experiment samples from China's space station made the journey to Earth on Friday aboard the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft.

Novi Sad mayor praises Chinese-built infrastructure

Lau Shun, a well-known actor from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region who appeared in many acclaimed films, has passed away on May 29 at the age of 87, veteran Hong Kong singer-actor Law Kar-ying said in a long message posted on Sina Weibo on Saturday.

On May 25, He Tingbo, Huawei's director of the board and president of its Semiconductor Business Department, published a paper titled "A Time Scaling Theory for Multi-Layer Electronic Systems" on ChinaXiv, a preprint platform of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for sharing scientific and technical papers. In this paper, He elaborated on the Tau (τ) Scaling Law that she presented at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) and unveiled Huawei's roadmap for releasing some of its Kirin and Ascend series chips. The People's Daily recently sat down for an exclusive interview with He Tingbo. In May 2019, a public letter she wrote placed her in the spotlight. In this letter, she announced that Huawei's Plan B for chips that the company had been working on for years had suddenly become Plan A, and that the company would strive to ensure its self-sufficiency in technology. Now, seven years later, she is back in the public eye.

At the 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue · Huangshan, Alexander Badrow, mayor of Stralsund, Germany, said protecting the environment, preserving cultural heritage and embracing new technologies are three priorities in his vision for future cities.

China's Northeast Agricultural University bids farewell to graduates with dumpling feast

South Africa's Western Cape Provincial Minister of Social Development Jaco Londt said cooperation between Shandong and the Western Cape has continued to deepen across agriculture, healthcare, trade and youth exchanges.