
Spending patterns among China's inbound travelers are shifting toward card-based transactions, experiential and everyday scenarios, underscoring the nation's progress in improving bank card acceptance and payment convenience, said a recent report by the World Tourism Alliance.

With the rise of artificial intelligence, it is tempting to believe that the future belongs to coders, data scientists and engineers. But the past year has made something else equally clear: The world's biggest challenges — from the ethics of AI to climate resilience and social trust — cannot be solved with technical expertise alone. If anything, they are exposing the limits of a purely technocratic mindset.

LandSpace conducts the debut flight of its ZQ 3, or Rosefinch 3, carrier rocket in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Dec 3, 2025.The mission verified the overall plan for the testing, launch and flight of the ZQ 3 model, and demonstrated the compatibility of interfaces between various systems, according to LandSpace.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Tuesday welcomed Russia’s decision to grant visa-free entry to Chinese nationals, calling it a move that will further deepen bilateral ties and promote exchanges between the two peoples.

The world’s longest-living crested ibis bred in captivity, “Pingping,” has died at Beijing Zoo, the zoo said on Monday.

Marintec China 2025, the maritime industry's premier event in Asia, starts on Tuesday at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre.The four-day maritime showcase spans over 110,000 square meters across 11 specialized pavilions, attracting more than 2,200 exhibiting companies from more than 40 countries and regions.

Chinese space authorities have released new details on damage to the Shenzhou-20 return capsule, confirming that a crack in one of the spacecraft’s windows was caused by a piece of space debris smaller than one millimeter.

China launched a new satellite from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan Province on Sunday, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

China is recording a sharp increase in young-onset dementia rates, with new research showing its growth now outpaces that of late-onset dementia, a shift doctors say is increasingly visible in clinics and adds urgency to earlier detection.

In the field of microgravity physical sciences, the crew replaced the high-speed image storage unit in the two-phase systems experiment cabinet and completed the disassembly and reassembly tasks of experimental module.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has emphasized the importance of improving long-term mechanisms for cyberspace governance.

China will deepen multilateral cooperation on green technologies, support its new energy vehicle, battery and photovoltaic enterprises in expanding globally, and accelerate the low-carbon transition of its sprawling manufacturing sector, said the nation's top industry regulator.

As China's low-altitude economy continues to expand, the demand for general-purpose aircraft and drones is rising.Two private enterprises have already signed cooperation agreements with AECC to procure the new engine for their large cargo drones, according to the chief designer.

China launched a Long March 7A carrier rocket on Sunday night to send a satellite into orbit, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.The launch marked the 611th mission of the Long March family and China's 77th rocket launch in 2025.

China's flu season is underway, with cases increasing rapidly across the country and expected to continue rising in the coming weeks, health authorities said recently.

As of 6 a.m. on Friday, the fire at Hong Fu Court in Hong Kong has resulted in 94 deaths, including a firefighter, according to local authorities.
Beijing International Commercial Tribunal is improving the quality and efficiency of case handling, with great efforts in legal talent training and cultivation, an official said on Wednesday.

Tsinghua University has unveiled a comprehensive framework for the use of artificial intelligence in education, emphasizing the prohibition of AI for ghostwriting, plagiarism, fabrication, or other misconduct among graduate students. The guideline positions AI as an auxiliary tool, with teachers and students as the primary agents in education.
Chinese companies are at the global forefront in adopting artificial intelligence at work and are optimistic about its potential thanks to the widespread enthusiasm for AI driven by digitally skilled and ambitious young employees, according to a report from Boston Consulting Group.
Tsinghua University has unveiled a comprehensive framework for artificial intelligence use in education, emphasizing the prohibition of AI for ghostwriting, plagiarism, fabrication, or other misconduct among graduate students.
Lunar soil retrieved by China's Chang'e-6 mission from the far side of the moon.Chinese scientists have unraveled the mystery behind the unusually cohesive lunar soil retrieved by China's Chang'e-6 mission from the far side of the moon.

Orbiting Earth at an altitude of about 400 kilometers, Tiangong is currently the only operational space station independently run by a single nation. zhaolei@chinadaily.com.cn

China's Shenzhou-22 spacecraft successfully completed an autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking with the space station on Tuesday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

The Ministry of Natural Resources has released a new catalog of advanced and applicable technologies for mineral resource conservation and utilization, adding 186 new technologies in a significant update to the 2022 version.

China will launch a series of scientific satellite missions during its 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026–2030), focusing on major frontiers such as the origins of the universe, space weather, and life, the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said.
Motphys' employees at China's first fully independent robot simulation training base in Wuhan, Hubei province, operate robots in different simulation scenarios to complete specific tasks and gather data.
Representatives from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Russia's Far Eastern Federal University pose at the launch ceremony for the joint institute.

China on Tuesday announced the successful launch of the Shenzhou-22 spaceship.

The Long March-2F Y22 carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-22 spaceship, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Tuesday. Click herefor our live coverage of the event.

Rocket carrying the unmanned Shenzhou XXII spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
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