Tourists visit a light festival in Horqin Right Wing Front Banner, Hinggan League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 20, 2025. A light festival kicked off here on Saturday, attracting many people to come and enjoy various illuminated installations.

An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 20, 2025 shows visitors enjoying the urban view at sunset at the Jinwan Yunding sightseeing deck in Heping District of Tianjin, north China. Recently, the Jinwan Yunding sightseeing deck, located at the Jinwan Plaza in Heping District of Tianjin, has begun operati

China will begin exporting chilled pork to Singapore for the first time, officials and an exporter in Hunan Province in central China said.The expansion of bilateral food trade comes more than a year after Singapore resumed importing frozen pork from China, following years of import bans imposed in

China's largest offshore oilfield, the Bohai Oilfield, has produced over 40 million tonnes of oil equivalent in 2025, setting a historical record, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced on Sunday.As the country's leading offshore oilfield in terms of both output and scale,

China's animated film box office surpassed 25 billion yuan (about 3.54 billion US dollars) in 2025, making it the highest-grossing year for animated movies in the country's history, according to data from online ticketing platforms.

The support fund for Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, established by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, totaled about 4 billion Hong Kong dollars (about $514 million) as of Saturday.

Gold medalist Kong Fanyu (C) leads a Chinese sweep of the women's aerials superfinal with compatriots Chen Meiting (L) and Xu Mengtao (R) earning silver and bronze, respectively, at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup in Zhangjiakou, China, December 20, 2025. /VCGChinese skiers thrilled the home

The Global Times Annual Conference 2026, themed "Trust in China: New Journey, New Opportunities," was held in Beijing on Saturday. In a discussion on the topic "Civilizational States: Why China's Solutions Are Most Implementable," Yang Xuedong, director of the Department of Political Sciences at

A set of supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) power generation units commenced commercial operation on Saturday in Guizhou Province, southwest China, marking the country's pioneering commercial application of this innovative technology.The unit now in commercial operation, located at a plant operated

The support fund for Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, established by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, totaled about 4 billion Hong Kong dollars (about $514 million) as of Saturday.

Moments of the week (12/15-12/21)

Chinese mergansers spotted wintering in Dazhang River, SE China

People visit an ice and snow theme park in Manzhouli, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 20, 2025. The 22nd China-Russia-Mongolia international ice and snow festival opened here on Saturday.The theme park created for the festival covers an area of 128,000 square meters.

A performance is staged at a certification ceremony for the Lhalu Wetland National Nature Reserve in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Dec. 20, 2025. Verified by the World Record Certification Agency (WRCA), the Lhalu Wetland National Nature Reserve has been confirmed as the

China on Saturday sent a new communication technology test satellite into space from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province.Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-5 rocket, the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit.It will be mainly used to

A national meeting on cultivating talent in the cultural sector was held in Beijing on Saturday.Li Shulei, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, addressed the meeting.Participants