A China-Europe freight train bound for Moscow departed Puhe station in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, at around 11:30 a.m. Thursday, bringing the service's cumulative trips to top 140,000 and transporting goods worth over 560 billion US dollars since 2011.

Orionid meteor shower observed in China's Heilongjiang

A Philippine diplomat's recent remarks that the Philippines is exploring deeper cooperation with the Taiwan region on protecting undersea cables, "notwithstanding the one-China policy," expose the Marcos Jr. government's ulterior motive of playing the Taiwan card to gain leverage in the South China

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called for new achievements on the new Long March as China commemorates the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March.

​China has upgraded its digital yuan infrastructure to integrate a wider range of payment and financial services, unveiling an upgraded central bank system for the digital yuan and a framework for smart contract services aimed at lowering operating costs and expanding the currency's use.

The newly opened Pinglu Canal is giving businesses in China's inland regions new routes to coastal and overseas markets, carrying mineral cargoes north and manufactured goods south during its first month of operation.

China will take further measures to advance a special campaign on automobile quality improvement as part of its efforts to refine the industry's modern governance system and ensure safety, an official said on Wednesday.

China is strengthening its legal framework for cross-border financial activities and international judicial cooperation to support high-level opening-up, officials said at the ongoing Annual Conference of Financial Street Forum 2026 in Beijing.

China on Thursday activated a Level IV emergency response for flood and typhoon control in Shanghai, Zhejiang and Fujian as Super Typhoon Champi approaches the East China Sea and is expected to bring heavy to torrential rain to the three regions from Friday through Monday.

In 2006, Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin's novel The Three-Body Problem began appearing in serial form in Science Fiction World magazine. Two decades later, the novel has not only made its mark on the world stage but also offered a lens through which to examine real-world developments.

China and Russia have leveraged more dynamic and resilient cooperation to cushion the impact of external uncertainties and instability, and bilateral ties are entering a new stage marked by greater achievements and faster development, said Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday.

China on Thursday released a five-year plan to accelerate upgrading of its industrial foundation capabilities, in a further step toward building an innovation-driven manufacturing powerhouse.

China is seeing a spike in online payments as various online shopping platforms kick off the annual "Double 11" shopping festival, one of the biggest online shopping events in the world's second-largest economy.

China's domestically developed 2.8-meter longitudinal welded pipe machine has been successfully commissioned at a customer's site, setting a new domestic record for the maximum specifications of such equipment and strengthening the competitiveness of Chinese-made machinery in the sector.

Scenery of Jifeng Mountain in NW China's Gansu

According to the China South-to-North Water Diversion Corporation, the water diversion operation for the entire line of the first phase of the eastern route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project for 2026-2027 was launched on Tuesday.