The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked on Wednesday, August 12. At the Jiangbulake Scenic Area in Qitai county, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the meteors and the Milky Way jointly created a beautiful picture in the night sky.

At Dongguan Port in Dongguan, South China's Guangdong Province, giant "express parcels" are being lifted onto ocean-going vessels.

Watch these two young athletes go ALL OUT in an intense 100m obstacle race. Their agility and focus are next level!

Asia's first offshore wind power project to utilize flexible direct current (DC) transmission technology transmitted more than 10 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity to the grid in August, its operator China Three Gorges Corp (CTG) said.

China is formulating a new action plan for sustained air quality improvement, placing emphasis on higher quality standards and more targeted region-specific policies, an official said Thursday.

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has unveiled the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro late Wednesday, featuring significantly enhanced agent capabilities and support for the Responses Application Programming Interface (API) and Codex integration, the company said in a post on its website.

Hong Kong has sweltered through a prolonged heatwave, with maximum temperatures reaching 33 degrees Celsius or higher for nine consecutive days as of Thursday, according to the Hong Kong Observatory. The observatory forecast that the high temperature weather will be alleviated, as areas of thundery

Are those real Chinese cabbages? Look closer. A Chinese artist renders every crisp leaf and delicate vein in stunning detail. A lifelike dragonfly rests on the leaves, so real you may need a second look to tell the painting from reality.

In Linhai, Zhejiang Province, torrential rains brought by Typhoon Dolphin have caused severe flooding in several urban areas. As the situation has continued to intensify, amphibious all-terrain vehicles have been deployed to assist with emergency rescue and relief efforts. Capable of traveling on both land and water, the vehicles can operate on tracks in water less than 1.2 meters deep and automatically switch to floating mode when the water rises above that level. Their adaptability allows rescuers to quickly reach stranded residents and people trapped in flooded areas, providing vital support during the ongoing typhoon and flood response. (Produced by Ma Yunzhe and intern Wang Shanshan)

The Pinglu Canal in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region started vessel trials on Wednesday, marking a key step toward the planned opening of this major Chinese waterway in September. Four vessels of the 1,000-ton, 3,000-ton and 5,000-ton classes were deployed for the trial. Moving in phases along the canal's main channel, they will verify navigation under different operating conditions and test the performance of navigation aids across the entire route, comprehensively checking the safety and stability of the canal's channel, ship-locks, anchorages and service areas to lay a solid foundation for the canal's opening. As a backbone project of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, the 134.2-km Pinglu Canal is China's first major river-to-sea canal project planned and coordinated at the national level since 1949. (Produced by Xie Runjia and intern Wang Shanshan)

When rain started falling in Xiangyang, Hubei Province on August 11, a young girl spotted a stray cat with nowhere to hide. She held her umbrella over the cat, leaving herself exposed to the rain as she made sure it stayed dry. (Produced by Long Chuyan, Wang Ruofan and Ni Tao)