A 55-year-old woman with high-level quadriplegia has become the first patient at Tongji Medical College in Wuhan, Hubei Province, to undergo fully invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) surgery, the hospital said Thursday.

More than 2,000 humanoid robots from 16 countries will compete at the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing from Aug. 22 to 26, a sports official said Thursday.

The first print issue of Vita, an international academic journal series in the life sciences led by China, was officially released on Wednesday, marking a significant step forward in China’s contribution to global scientific publishing.

Humanoid robots competed Tuesday at Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval, known as the “Ice Ribbon,” in qualifiers for the second World Humanoid Robot Games. All on-field actions were required to be performed autonomously.

By drawing on the fast-paced and engaging format of short videos, he helps students understand grammar and vocabulary in a more accessible and memorable way.

The Three Gorges New Energy Jiangsu Rudong 800-megawatt offshore wind power project, Asia’s first offshore wind project to use flexible direct current (DC) transmission, had generated more than 10 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity as of Monday.

A satellite launch mission using a modified Long March-7 carrier rocket failed on Monday in south China's Hainan Province, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.

President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said in an article published in June in the Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the CPC Central Committee, that cultivating and developing future industries are of great significance for seizing the development initiative, developing new quality productive forces and improving people's quality of life.

A Chinese research team has completed an updated geologic map of the entire moon featuring a scale of 1:5 million, the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (IGCAGS), said on Thursday.
The Maerdang Hydropower Station posted a record-high monthly power generation, according to China Energy Investment Corporation Qinghai Branch on Wednesday.

Chinese scientists have identified a flowering plant species on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau as a new lineage of carnivorous plants, providing evidence for Charles Darwin’s prediction more than 150 years ago.

Scheduled to take effect on Oct. 15 this year, the regulation aims to strengthen the protection and application of layout-designs, improve registration and management systems by elevating proven practices into regulations, and align with relevant laws and international treaties.

A multicenter clinical trial in China has shown that ctDNA-guided surveillance can improve outcomes for patients with colorectal cancer after surgery, enabling earlier detection of recurrence.

China successfully launched communication technology experimental satellites 27A and 27B from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province on Thursday.

China successfully launched the Tianlian-3-01 satellite into its planned orbit from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan Province on Wednesday, using a Long March-7A carrier rocket, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

An international joint laboratory dedicated to seismic resilience was launched in Beijing to mark the 50th anniversary of the devastating 1976 Tangshan earthquake.

The TP200, China’s first versatile long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle developed under airworthiness standards, completed its maiden flight Sunday in Yantai, Shandong Province.

The 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference will be held Oct. 21 23 at the Beijing Etrong International Exhibition & Convention Center, organizers announced Monday.

Chinese mathematician Deng Yu said at a press conference after receiving the Fields Medal award held in Philadelphia, the U.S., on Thursday that it is an immense honor to see his name placed alongside those of the great mathematicians he has long admired.

Two Chinese commercial remote sensing satellites set a national record Wednesday by transmitting their first high-definition images just 1.5 hours after launch.

China completed its 52nd space launch of 2026 on Thursday evening, sending a new data relay satellite — Tianlian II-06 — into orbit atop a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

A robot equipped with 108 mechanical arms has been deployed in cotton fields in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, automating cotton topping, one of the most labor-intensive tasks in cotton production.
The 2026 Digital Heritage Global Innovator Contest concluded on Wednesday evening at the Grand Bao’en Temple Ruins Museum in Nanjing.

PwC China launched an AI research institute in Shanghai on Wednesday to bridge local AI innovation with global practices.

The Global Civilization Institute was inaugurated in Beijing on Wednesday as an academic platform dedicated to advancing research on civilizations and promoting exchanges and mutual learning among them.

The final of Beijing’s first high school humanoid robot football tournament was held at Tsinghua University High School on Wednesday.


At the 2026 World Internet Conference Digital Silk Road Development Forum, John Higgins, Chairman of the International AI Governance Association, said that the real threat to humanity is not artificial intelligence itself, but the misuse of AI by people with malicious intentions.

China has made a significant advance in hybrid rice breeding, with a research team developing a one-line hybrid rice that achieves a cloning efficiency stably above 99% while setting seed normally, according to Xinhua News Agency.

A smart agriculture training program opened Tuesday in Jiansanjiang, part of the Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province, showcasing frontier technologies including intelligent rice breeding 5.0, gene edited breeding and long term black soil monitoring.

China's National Medical Products Administration on Tuesday approved an innovative drug for the treatment of narcolepsy type 1, making China the first country in the world to authorize the drug for market use, CCTV News reported.
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