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With the Chinese government introducing a host of favorable policies and measures to boost the country's commercial space sector, a company has unveiled an ambitious plan for offering private citizens short journeys into space.
Engineers at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei province, have developed a breakthrough robotic system capable of identifying and mimicking complex human emotions, a significant leap toward bridging the communication gap between humans and machines.
The Consumer Electronics Show 2026 concluded in Las Vegas on Jan 9, marking the largest post-pandemic edition of the world's most influential technology event. More than 148,000 attendees from over 150 countries and regions, including 4,100 exhibitors and 1,200 startups, gathered for the annual tech carnival. The event highlighted "technologies that will define the next decade of economic growth and competitiveness," said Gary Shapiro, executive chair and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association.
Sinovac Biotech said its inactivated hepatitis A vaccine has won an exclusive public sector supply contract in Oman for 2026 and 2027, marking its first breakthrough in the Gulf Cooperation Council vaccine market.
Chinese actor Johnny Huang Jingyu will become China's first celebrity space tourist, flying as passenger No. 009 aboard a domestically developed spacecraft CYZ1, its developer "interstellOr" announced on its Weibo account Thursday.
A pioneering medical system in Tianjin has treated nearly 4,500 elderly patients with hip fractures in its inaugural year, signaling a potential shift in how China manages the "last fracture of life".
At a converted warehouse on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, a dozen young programmers gather around used laptops to develop an application. The artificial intelligence model they are using is trained to spot crop disease from a single smartphone photo. Interestingly, their small business is increasingly tied to China.
China voiced "grave concerns" and "firm opposition" to the European Union's move to label certain Chinese tech firms as "high-risk suppliers" on Thursday, following Brussels mandates to restrict such suppliers from critical sectors like 5G.
In a converted warehouse on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, a dozen young programmers gather around secondhand laptops to develop an application.The State Council, China's Cabinet, has issued guidelines calling for deeper integration of AI across science and technology, industry, consumption, public services, governance and international cooperation.
China is accelerating a shift toward a new growth model anchored in tech-driven domestic consumption as geopolitical tensions and technological disruption reshape the global economic landscape, officials, business leaders and economists have said.
Mechanics conduct inspections on the electric multiple unit (EMU) trains on the evening of Jan 22 at Taiyuan EMU Depot in Shanxi province to ensure safe journeys during the 2026 Spring Festival travel rush. This year's Spring Festival travel rush will begin on Feb 2 and end on March 13, lasting a total of 40 days.Workers clean the EMU trains at Taiyuan EMU Depot in Shanxi province on the evening of Jan 22, 2026.
China ranks among the top globally in the number of active AI patents: official
The high-speed train ride from Zunyi to Yan'an will take just eight hours and 49 minutes, a big improvement compared to the original train, which took more than 16 hours.
China is accelerating a shift toward a new growth model anchored in tech-driven domestic consumption as geopolitical tensions and technological disruption reshape the global economic landscape, officials, business leaders and economists have said.
A Chinese research team has created a tiny, fully biodegradable implant that uses the body's own movement to generate gentle electrical pulses, helping damaged muscle heal faster -- all without wires, batteries, or the need for follow-up surgery.
Based on this discovery, the team designed a four-step cyclic system including pressurization for heating, heat dissipation to the environment, depressurization for cooling, and delivery of cooling capacity.
"Industry estimates suggest that the number of AI enterprises in China surpassed 6,000 in 2025, with the core sector expected to exceed 1.2 trillion yuan ($172.32 billion) in size."
Nine people have been confirmed dead after an explosion at a steel plant in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, while one individual remains missing, local authorities said on Tuesday.
Hospitals and research institutes in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, are expanding the clinical use of cell and gene therapies, with doctors reporting early results in a small number of patients with chronic conditions.
China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft returned safely to the Dongfeng landing site at 9:34 a.m. Beijing time on Monday, marking the complete success of the return mission, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
China's Fengyun-3D satellite has found that the world's formerly largest iceberg, A23a, is entering the final stages of its disintegration, according to the China Meteorological Administration.
The vibrant reds and yellows that coat some children's toys and food packaging have long masked a troubling reality — reliance on toxic heavy metals. Researchers in Northeast China say they may have found a cost-effective way of eliminating those hazards by tapping into the country's abundant rare earth reserves.
An aerial photo taken on Friday shows China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, or FAST, under maintenance, in Guizhou province.This marks the first time globally that scientists have captured the evolutionary process of such a burst, aiding in narrowing down the long-debated origins of these brief yet powerful cosmic signals.
Astronauts of China's Shenzhou XX mission Chen Dong (C), Chen Zhongrui (R) and Wang Jie meet the press at the Beijing Aerospace City on Jan 16, 2026. This was the first official public appearance of the crew of the Shenzhou XX flight mission after they returned to Earth.Wang said that when equipment malfunctions occurred in space, the basic knowledge and design principles he accumulated on the ground could be put to immediate use.
Galactic Energy, a private rocket maker in Beijing, conducted the sixth sea-based launch of its Ceres 1 carrier rocket on Friday morning, marking the first private space mission in China in 2026.
China's Ministry of Public Security on Thursday issued a notice urging fugitives linked to the Chen Zhi criminal syndicate to voluntarily surrender to authorities.
A new large cargo drone model successfully completed a transprovincial test flight over plateau regions, demonstrating its ability to operate in extreme high-altitude conditions, its developer said.
Through studying the observation data of China's gigantic radio telescope located in the country's southwestern Guizhou Province, an international research team has uncovered compelling new evidence supporting a binary-system origin for at least some fast radio bursts (FRBs), one of the most enigmatic phenomena in modern astrophysics.
Chinese scientists have directly observed the Migdal effect for the first time in experiments involving collisions between neutrons and atomic nuclei, confirming a quantum mechanics prediction made nearly nine decades ago.
European researchers began operating the first global repository of mountain ice cores in Antarctica on Wednesday, aiming to preserve irreplaceable climate records as global warming accelerates glacier melt.
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