This photo taken on Dec. 21, 2025 shows the Seventeen-Arch Bridge with the sunset glow shining through its arches at the Summer Palace in Beijing, capital of China.

More than 60 Ethiopian female entrepreneurs have graduated from the China-supported Global Female Entrepreneurship Empowerment Program workshop (GFEEP) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital.During the two-week training workshop, participants attended classes focusing on strategic business thinking,

Peng Peiyun, a former Chinese state councilor and vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress, died in Beijing at 6:26 a.m. Sunday following a battle with illness at the age of 96, an official statement has said.Peng also served as president and honorary

Inside an operating room at the local National Children's Hospital, the faint hum of a phacoemulsification machine accompanied a delicate pediatric eye surgery.At the microscope sat Senegalese ophthalmologist Babacar Mbengue, his hands steady on the surgical probe. Beside him, visiting Chinese

Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport in central China marked the milestone of handling one million tonnes of annual cargo and mail throughput on Sunday following the arrival of an all-cargo aircraft operated by Malaysia's Raya Airways.This demonstrates the strong development momentum of the

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.

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