
China's top political advisory body, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), will hold its annual session from March 4 to 11 in Beijing, a spokesperson for the session said on Tuesday.

China had 602 million generative artificial intelligence users as of December 2025, up 141.7% from the end of 2024, according to an official report cited by state media.


Major countries must not be allowed to attack others at will with their military might, nor should the world revert to the law of the jungle.

During the 2026 Spring Festival, various tourist hotspots all around China welcomed a travel boom, with international flight bookings surging by nearly 20% year-on-year.
Across the globe, regional crises are erupting. Who has pulled the world into a vortex of war? Who fuels the chaos? Who undermines global peace and regional stability? Everyone can see it.

Across the globe, regional crises are erupting. Who has pulled the world into a vortex of war? Who fuels the chaos? Who undermines global peace and regional stability? Everyone can see it.


China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning was asked whether Beijing and Moscow had discussed the possibility of providing military support to Iran, should Tehran request it, during a recent phone call between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.



Lantern installations attract visitors to take photos during the Lantern Festival in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 2, 2026.


The 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, closed the 15th session of its standing committee on Monday in Beijing.

A government-funded screening program is helping families in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, identify potential health risks long before a child is born, or even conceived.

The United Kingdom is seeking feedback from parents and children through trials of a potential under-16 social media ban, along with curbs on gaming services and AI-powered chatbots.
Inside a 10-square-meter simulated post-disaster site at a fire brigade in Qingdao, Shandong province, a cockroach scurries through a narrow tunnel, adroitly dodging rocks and wooden debris. A miniature camera mounted on its head transmits a first-person view as the insect follows a route designed by its operators.

The Chinese A-share market, supported by companies' improved profits and the country's solid economic fundamentals, remains resilient despite global market jitters amid escalating geopolitical tensions, experts said on Monday.
China has unveiled a framework to standardize its rapidly expanding humanoid robotics industry, as policymakers, companies and researchers seek to address growing technical fragmentation in the sector.

Chinese courts have issued more than 25,000 personal safety protection orders over the past five years, providing judicial support to victims of domestic violence, an official with the Supreme People's Court said.

As the annual national "two sessions" approach, China is expected to send strong and fresh signals on pushing high-quality development, leveraging greater policy and reform support to ensure steady economic growth and social progress.

Iran's IRGC official says will burn any ship trying to pass through Strait of Hormuz

WASHINGTON -- Four US troops have been killed in action and 18 others seriously wounded during the ongoing military operation against Iran as of Monday morning, according to US Central Command spokesperson Tim Hawkins.

Traffic clogs a key highway in Lebanon on Monday as people flee Israeli strikes. The arterial road connects the southern port city of Sidon with Lebanese capital Beirut.

"All these measures collectively ensure that China's energy security remains robust even in the face of geopolitical tensions and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz," Lu said.

A fire broke out at the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh after a blast, media reports said Tuesday.

This aerial panoramic photo taken on Jan 10, 2023, shows a view of Lujiazui area in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone in East China's Shanghai."As one of China's most dynamic trade hubs and a pioneer of reform and opening-up, the city reflects the country's transition toward higher-level openness and innovation-driven growth."

The US Central Command announced on Monday the death of two additional US service members in the attacks against Iran, bringing the total number to six. "As of 4 pm ET, March 2, six US service members have been killed in action.

At a factory in Central China, production once depended on workers dashing between machines, adjusting schedules by hand and fixing faults after they occurred. Today, artificial intelligence quietly orchestrates the entire process — allocating tasks, monitoring quality and optimizing output in real time. The machines no longer wait for instructions; the system thinks for itself.

The author is the deputy to the 14th National People's Congress and director of Key Laboratory of Dryland Agriculture at Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shanxi Agricultural University (Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences).

Displaced people fleeing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon sit on a pickup truck on a highway linking the southern port city of Sidon to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Monday.

The hub currently hosts 20 OPCs, whose entrepreneurs mainly come from domestic and foreign universities and technology enterprises. One of the hub's members is Wu Zhen, a 44-year-old entrepreneur.

In a technology park in Shanghai's Xuhui district, 58-year-old Zhang Wei is fine-tuning a drone used for agricultural inspection. With 35 years of experience as an aircraft mechanic, he remains one of the most reliable technicians in the factory.
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