

China's Hainan Free Trade Port will officially launch an island-wide independent customs operation Thursday.


As Japan would soon lose its last two giant pandas to China, Japanese fans flocked to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on Tuesday to catch a final glimpse. The zoo estimates that about 178,000 visitors will come to see the pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, between Dec. 16, 2025 and Jan. 25, 2026.

Authorities have held 25 people accountable following an investigation into a fatal fire at a school in central China's Henan Province that killed 13 people, according to an official report released Wednesday.
Commenting on Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's erroneous remarks on Taiwan, Russian scholar Vladimir Nelidov said the trend towards the militarization of Japan has been going on for a long time.

The Chinese Embassy in Cambodia on Wednesday urged Chinese nationals near the Cambodia–Thailand border to move to safer areas, citing ongoing tensions, and advised those elsewhere in the country to avoid travel to the border region for now.

Crowds gathered Tuesday at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens to see giant panda twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei ahead of their planned return to China in late January.

Authorities in eastern China's Jiangxi Province have launched an investigation after workers at a new energy battery manufacturer were found to have abnormally high levels of lead in their blood, local officials said Tuesday.

The recent statements made by the Japanese side show that Japan is still reluctant to do the right thing and is deliberately creating trouble on issues of critical importance in an attempt to mislead the public and hope that somehow the issue would resolve itself. China firmly opposes it, said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun at a regular press conference on Wednesday.
As China is entering the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), experts are asking how the country can better integrate empathy, compassion, and altruism into the development of emerging technologies. They also emphasize the need for people-oriented and environment-focused approaches to guide innovation and support high-quality growth.


As Hainan enters the final stage of island-wide special customs operations, the tower, with a planned height of 428 meters, has now risen to 402 meters, reshaping the province's urban skyline.

The Hainan Free Trade Port will begin islandwide special customs operations on Thursday, the Hainan provincial government said, a milestone in efforts to position the island province as China's gateway to the world.

A Ming dynasty imperial edict conferring investiture on a Ryukyu king has gone on public display at the Lüshun Museum in Dalian, Liaoning province, providing rare physical evidence of historical ties between China and the Ryukyu Islands.

China has approved market access for its first batch of Level 3 autonomous driving passenger vehicles, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Monday, a milestone in the commercial rollout of conditionally automated driving technology.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Ahmed Al-Ahmed at a hospital in Sydney, who risked his life to disarm one of the alleged Bondi attackers and save multiple lives in Sydney on Sunday evening.

Reviewing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit held in Tianjin this year, Oleg Kopylov, the organization's Deputy Secretary-General, noted that as one of the most important diplomatic events hosted by China during its SCO rotating chairmanship, the summit achieved substantial results with far-reaching impact. Kopylov made the remarks during an exclusive interview with China News Network.

Law enforcement agencies from China and the United States have cooperated in cracking a major cocaine smuggling case, Chinese police authorities said Tuesday.

The National Archives Administration of China on Saturday published a batch of declassified Russia-provided archives on Soviet interrogations of the Japanese Unit 731 in Khabarovsk. The archives contain interrogation records of Unit 731 members and investigation reports on the unit's crime

Job postings on a Japanese recruitment website seeking creators to produce content critical of China and favorable to Japan have sparked public backlash, with social media users questioning the funding behind the projects and urging greater transparency and investigation.

China's crude oil output in 2025 is expected to reach 215 million metric tons, a record high, while natural gas production could rise to 260 billion cubic meters, up 35% from the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2015-2020), data from the National Energy Administration (NEA) shows.
Chinese modernization, which puts people's wellbeing at its center, has achieved what other major powers have not – the eradication of absolute poverty, Anatoly Tozik, former Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, in a recent interview with China News Network.

"The 21st century will not, cannot be and should not be a repetition of the 20th century. Certainly, the 1.4 billion Chinese people will never accept it," said David Gosset, specialist in global affairs and sinology, and founder of the China-Europe-America Global Initiative, in an interview with China News Network's West-East Talk, commenting on Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent erroneous remarks on the Taiwan question.


This photo released on Dec. 14, 2025 shows the Geminid meteor shower over the Xinghe County of Ulanqab in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.


South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin cruised past China’s Olympic champions Wang Chuqin and Sung Yingsha in straight games in the mixed doubles final at WTT Finals Saturday.

10 big things about China you should not miss (Dec. 7- Dec. 13)

On December 13, 1937, Japanese invading forces captured Nanjing and carried out a massacre that lasted more than forty days, an atrocity that shocked the world then, and still does to this very day.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s brazen remarks on Taiwan sound a stark warning that Japan’s militarist demons are being summoned anew.

A recent street interview video filmed in Japan by independent British content creator Luke Johnston has sparked heated discussions online.
Northwestern China's Qinghai Province, once strained by heavy human activity, is seeing substantial ecological recovery and positioning itself as a major clean-energy base supporting the country's green transition.


Kum Tag Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region welcomes its first snowfall this winter on Dec. 11, 2025.


Chinese paddler Lin Shidong defeated fellow Chinese player Liang Jingkun 4-0 to reach the men's singles last eight Thursday.
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