China saw 826 million domestic tourist trips during the recent seven-day National Day holiday, with tourism spending totaling 738.38 billion yuan (about 109.67 billion U.S. dollars), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said on Friday.

China on October 9, 2026 condemned Japanese right-wing forces for distorting the record of Japan's wartime aggression, warning against the misuse of artificial intelligence to whitewash historical crimes. (Edited by Li Yuanxin and intern Zhou Huiru)

Hasty harvest: A farmer in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region cuts off a sunflower head, flicks his wrist and slips it onto the stalk. (Video source: Douyin account-47262030465; Compiled by Li Yuanxin and intern Zhou Huiru)

China and the European Union (EU) reached a 16-point consensus covering trade and investment, export controls, intellectual property rights and World Trade Organization (WTO) reform during high-level talks in Beijing on Thursday and Friday, marking concrete progress in efforts to manage bilateral

China will resolutely respond to any malicious provocation and firmly safeguard its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Friday.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Friday firmly rejected relevant claims in the US Department of State's 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report, which downgraded Hong Kong from Tier 2 to Tier 3, calling the claims entirely unfounded and an attempt to tarnish Hong Kong's r

President of the Council of Ministers of Togo Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé arrives in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Oct. 9, 2026.

The Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council have issued a set of guidelines aimed at accelerating the development of new quality productive forces to bolster high-quality development.The guidelines outline 19 key measures in five areas, including advancing scientific and

A Chinese research team has found that a pulsar discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is part of a primordial triple star system still in the process of evolving, according to a study published Friday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

China on Friday condemned Japanese right-wing forces for distorting the record of Japan's wartime aggression, warning against the misuse of artificial intelligence to whitewash historical crimes.

China has kicked off a two-year push to speed up its Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, known as the Great Green Wall, aiming to finish 70% of the work by 2027 and wrap it up by 2030.The National Forestry and Grassland Administration says the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) is crunch time.

As China marks the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, take a look at how the country's cities, landscapes and daily life have changed over the past nearly eight decades. (Produced by Xie Runjia, Li Mingzhi, Li Zhuoman, Ma Yunzhe, Chu Chu and intern Zhao Wenchang)

This photo taken with a mobile phone on Oct. 1, 2026 shows tourists visiting Qilou Old Street in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province.

A symposium was held in Beijing on Friday to study the first and second volumes of selected works on culture by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) recorded its highest ever visitor numbers for the National Day holiday, the Macao Government Tourism Office said Thursday.

At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, President of the Republic of Botswana Duma Gideon Boko will pay a state visit to China from Oct. 12 to 17, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced on Friday.