
The 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC) will be held in Beijing from August 19 to 23, featuring more than 300 exhibiting companies and over 2,000 exhibits, organizers announced at a press conference on Monday.

Guangzhou Customs in Guangdong Province recently seized 3.515 kilograms of ketamine — commonly known as "K powder," according to the "Customs Release" WeChat account.

Yvan Gil, Venezuela's foreign minister, on Monday expressed gratitude to the Chinese government and people for providing humanitarian assistance to support communities affected by earthquakes that hit the country recently.

A fire broke out at a factory in the coastal city of Weihai in east China's Shandong Province on Monday, killing four people, local emergency management officials said.

The first batch of emergency humanitarian relief supplies provided by the Chinese government to Venezuela arrived Monday at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, near the Venezuelan capital Caracas. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil and Chinese Ambassador to Venezuela Lan Hu received the supplies at the airport.

Chinese automaker Chery has formally taken over the Rosslyn vehicle manufacturing plant in Pretoria, marking its shift in South Africa from importing vehicles to building them locally.

China's Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing stock exchanges put into effect on Monday a set of revised trading rules designed to expand after-hours trading, refine pricing mechanisms and improve market liquidity.
The 2026 Shanghai-Hong Kong Innovation Project Selection Offline Bootcamp took place in Shanghai on Monday, centered on turning advances in artificial intelligence and biomedicine into commercial applications.

Eight people were killed and one remained missing after thunderstorms and gales brought by severe convective weather hit the eastern part of central China's Hubei Province on Monday night, according to the province's emergency management authorities.
Police in south China's Guangdong Province recovered more than 100 million yuan (about $13.94 million) lost to bogus online investment and wealth-management scams in the first half of this year, the provincial public security department said.

Two people were killed and about 55,000 others affected after torrential rains triggered flooding and breaches at several reservoirs in Nanning City, the capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local authorities said at a news conference on Monday.

Every summer, as temperatures rise and mountain snow melts, a spectacular scene unfolds across Xinjiang, China. Millions of cattle, sheep, and horses embark on an ancient journey from spring pastures to lush high-altitude summer grazing lands.

Top seed Sun Yingsha edged teammate Kuai Man 4-3 in an all-China women's singles final on Sunday to win the title at the 2026 World Table Tennis (WTT) U.S. Smash.
The 2026 Chengdu-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Vitality Week opened in Chengdu on Monday, bringing together 66 students and teachers from the three regions for a week-long exchange built around drone soccer, an emerging tech-driven sport.

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid probe has successfully rendezvoused with the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and begun conducting scientific observations, according to the China National Space Administration.

An old Chinese saying describes this period as a time when the heat lingers day and night, while people have long made use of the strong sunshine to dry clothes, reduce dampness, and promote well-being.

Malaysia's government has ruled out including tourism vehicles such as tour buses in its targeted diesel subsidy programme, stressing that public subsidies are designed to benefit local citizens rather than fund foreign tourists with taxpayers' money.

Chinese memory chip stocks rallied on Monday, fueled by strong market optimism surrounding the upcoming U.S. listing of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix and sustained growth in the global semiconductor market.

China is willing to maintain high-level exchanges with Norway and consolidate the political foundation of bilateral relations, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday, as reported by Xinhua News Agency.

As the World Cup advances to the Round of 16, illegal football betting has boomed across Malaysia, prompting stepped-up police crackdowns.

China opened 92 new international air cargo routes in the first half of this year, with over 210 round-trip flights added per week, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said Monday.

Norway looks forward to maintaining the momentum of high-level exchanges with China, expanding cooperation in emerging areas such as the green economy and artificial intelligence, strengthening communication and coordination on international and regional affairs, supporting the United Nations in playing its central role, and upholding multilateralism, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said on Monday, as reported by Xinhua News Agency.

China's Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Emergency Management have jointly allocated 160 million yuan (about 23.5 million U.S. dollars) for flood and geological disaster relief in six provincial-level regions including Guangxi, Hunan, Liaoning, Jilin, Anhui, and Shandong.

The first phase of rail grinding along a 144-kilometer stretch of the Lao section of the China-Laos Railway was completed early Sunday, as a grinding train wrapped up its work and rolled into Boten Station, according to Xinhua News Agency.

In Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, a team of young entrepreneurs whose average age is under 30, just turned a sci-fi dream of powered "mech suits" into affordable, lightweight exoskeletons which are now sold in more than 70 countries and regions around the world.

Tsinghua University's Hephaestus team, competing with the Booster T1 humanoid developed by Beijing-based Acceleration Evolution, beat China Agricultural University's Shanhai team 6–2 in the final to retain its Humanoid League world title.

This year's edition drew more than 150 students and scholars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The program featured an opening ceremony, thematic presentations by student representatives, parallel panel discussions, a micro-video showcase, academic summaries, and closing and awards ceremonies. In all, the forum received over 200 academic papers and more than 30 micro-video submissions from universities and research institutions across the Strait.

More than 2 million foreign travelers entered Shanghai under the visa-free and 240-hour transit visa exemption policies in the first half of 2026, Shanghai AVINEX said on Monday, driven by the city's deepening integration of culture, commerce, tourism, sports and exhibitions.
China plans to strengthen its global competitiveness and voice in education during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026–2030), according to a new education development plan issued by the State Council recently.
The 2026 Music in the Summer Air festival (MISA) kicked off on Sunday evening at the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall with a music-and-drama performance of Hamlet.
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