Leading scientists are gathering in Shanghai for the 2026 World Laureates Forum. This year, Shao Feng has become the first Chinese national to win the World Laureates Foundation Prize. A new award also recognizes six young scientists, putting the next generation of research talent in the spotlight.

The China Coast Guard (CCG) conducted routine law enforcement patrols in the waters east of China's Taiwan island on Saturday, a CCG spokesperson stated.

The global observance of 2026 World Cities Day was held on Saturday in east China's Fuzhou, with five cities, including China's "porcelain capital" Jingdezhen, honored with the fourth-cycle Global Award for Sustainable Development in Cities, also known as the Shanghai Award.

Giant panda Lang Yue, which just returned to China from a zoo in the Netherlands, is pictured at an isolation and quarantine enclosure at the Ya'an base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Oct. 31, 2026.

In July 1945, the educator Huang Yanpei visited Yan'an, the city in northwest China that was a base of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and put a question to the Party’s leader Mao Zedong.

Autumn scenery in Changchun, China's Jilin

The China Coast Guard (CCG) task group led by CCGS Hushi conducted routine law-enforcement patrols on Saturday in the waters east of China’s Taiwan Island in accordance with the law, said Jiang Lue, spokesperson for the CCG.

A video showing people fleeing a shaking building was falsely shared on social media as footage of the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region in October.

China has reported substantial increases in its reserves of gold, nickel, rhenium and other strategic minerals following a nationwide reassessment of mineral deposits, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday, citing the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR).

Themed on "Better Life," the third phase of the 140th China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, kicked off here on Saturday.

Top-tier scientists and trailblazers gathered in Shanghai on Saturday for the 2026 World Laureates Forum – a chance to pick each other's brains on future semiconductors, biomedicine, aerospace information, AI, future energy and quantum science.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on a state visit to China from Tuesday to Saturday, hailed China's dynamism in technological innovation, green growth and traditional culture, and called for deeper bilateral engagement.

China's factory activity saw a mild contraction in October, with the purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector falling to 49.3 from 50.1 in September, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday.

Fu Chengyu, former chairman of the China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group), is under investigation for suspected severe violations of Party discipline and the law, an official statement said on Saturday.

The devastating fire at Hong Kong's Wang Fuk Court last year that claimed 168 lives exposed serious failures in building safety and government oversight. The independent committee's investigation report, released this week, makes painful reading.

China's manufacturing activity moderated in October while high-tech industries continued to expand, as the country pressed ahead with policy efforts to shore up domestic demand, stabilize investment and sustain economic growth.