China's machinery industry logged steady growth in the first half (H1) of 2026, powered by a surge in smart equipment manufacturing and high-end machine tools, according to data released Thursday by the China Machinery Industry Federation.

A burst of flame lit the morning sky over waters off Haiyang in east China's Shandong Province on Wednesday as a Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3) carrier rocket lifted off, drawing cheers from viewing sites along the coast.

The devastation and tragedies brought by nuclear weapons should never repeat themselves, and the lessons of Japanese militarism's aggression and expansion must forever serve as an alarm, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday.

For companies and cities, industrial tourism means more than ticket revenue and another tourist attraction on the map. Many Chinese industrial cities were once stereotyped by pollution and factory noise.

Authorities in east China's Zhejiang and Fujian provinces activated Level-IV typhoon emergency responses on Thursday afternoon, as Typhoon Dolphin, the 13th of 2026, churned toward the eastern coast of the country.

The Ministry of Water Resources has kept a Level-IV emergency flood response in place for both Shaanxi Province in northwest China and Heilongjiang Province in the northeast, the ministry said Thursday.

Japan reportedly plans to send F-2 fighter jets to India for the first time to take part in joint training, with a Defense Ministry official openly linking the move to "countering China." Although Japan and India each hope to use defense cooperation to advance their own interests, India should

A Chinese envoy on Wednesday called for stronger international governance of emerging technologies to fight terrorism.

China has launched a review of products sold by Palo Alto Networks in the country, according to a statement issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China on Thursday.

Chongqing has long been dubbed one of China's "furnace cities" for its sweltering, humid summers. In July alone, the city endured 26 consecutive days of high heat, with temperatures breaching 40 degrees Celsius for a full week and topping out at a scorching 41.6 degrees.

China's first independently-developed 16-megawatt TLP-supported floating wind power platform, named "Haiyou Anlan," has been connected to the Lufeng Oilfield power grid and is directly supplying green electricity, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation announced Thursday.

As extreme heatwaves grip many parts of the world, a growing number of foreign travelers are flocking to China for a "coolcation.

China's National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center on Thursday issued an orange alert for ocean waves as Typhoon Dolphin, the 13th typhoon of the year, continues to approach the China's eastern coastal regions.

China is pressing ahead with its Mars sample-return mission, for which a planetary protection laboratory is to be built in the first phase of Hefei's Deep-Space Science City in east China's Anhui Province, according to the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL).

A high-speed railway traversing a permafrost zone in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province entered trial operation on Thursday, bringing the country's northernmost bullet-train line one step closer to official service.