
Vincent van Gogh's Chestnut Trees in Blossom was on show in Hong Kong ahead of Sotheby's auction in New York this autumn, where it is expected to smash records and fetch around $180 million, according to Sotheby's on Tuesday.

Registration for China's 2027 national civil service examination opened at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, with 35,700 positions available at central government agencies and their directly affiliated institutions.

A Chinese formation led by the Liaoning aircraft carrier on Wednesday left for the Western Pacific for training, according to the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy.


A humanoid robot places an auto part at a designated workstation on a production line at an auto parts manufacturing company in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on Oct. 13, 2026.


Villagers dry sliced Badu bamboo shoots on bamboo trays in the sunshine at Mentun Village, Tianlin County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Oct. 13, 2026.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday put forward four principles for the constructive participation of all parties in the settlement of hotspot issues in Africa, during his meeting with President of the Council of Ministers of Togo Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, who is on an official visit to China.

During their talks in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Botswana's President Duma Gideon Boko announced the elevation of bilateral relations to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

Shanghai was named one of the first winners of the World Intellectual Property Organization's City of Innovation award, the organization announced Monday in Geneva.

The first batch of exhibits for the ninth China International Import Expo cleared customs in Shanghai on Monday, marking the start of exhibit arrivals for the expo, which runs Nov. 5-10.
An infrared camera has captured a previously unrecorded female Amur tiger with an unusually short tail in the Dongning section of Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, authorities said Monday.

The Beihai Coast Guard Bureau in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region seized goods worth about 5 million yuan (about $700,000), including more than 5,000 cartons of cigarettes and about 15 metric tons of frozen beef products, in four suspected smuggling cases over five days, the bureau said Tuesday.

China has designated a marine area of 335.43 square kilometers (about 130 square miles) off Weizhou Island in Beihai, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, as its first key habitat for Bryde's whales, with fishing banned 8.5 months of the year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Tuesday.

The exhibition of Ingenuity of Volumes:The Aesthetics of Ancient and Modern Chinese Bookbinding recently opened at the Museum of China Press and Publication in Shanghai, turning the spotlight on the beauty of books as physical objects and tracing the cultural roots and meanings embedded in their forms.
China on Tuesday handed out death sentences to three leading members of a criminal gang led by the Wei family, which carried out criminal activities, including telecom fraud and gambling, in Myanmar.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to firmly follow a path with Chinese characteristics in developing the country's health programs, to secure decisive progress in the Healthy China Initiative over the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030).


On October 11, during the Tongzhou Global Development Forum hosted by Renmin University of China, Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister, explained why he was given his Chinese name in an interview of News Lounge of China News Network. Rudd said that his Chinese name was given by his teacher, who built it on transliteration, while hoping he would master Chinese literature. He joked, “I haven't 'overcome' Chinese literature yet."

Ningxia's eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains are recognized as one of the world's prime regions for premium wine production.


China's achievements in its development over the past decades are impressive, and other countries also look with great interest to know if they can emulate China's experience, said Professor Richard Caplan from the University of Oxford to China News Network on Sunday.

Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is expected to handle an average of about 58,000 inbound and outbound passenger trips a day during the 140th China Import and Export Fair, known as the Canton Fair, up 13.6% from a year earlier, CCTV News reported Tuesday.

China has expressed condolences over the death of Colin Mackerras, an Australian sinologist and recipient of the Chinese Government Friendship Award who died Oct. 8 at 87, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Tuesday.
China has exclusive economic zone and continental shelf in waters east of the Taiwan island, and it is fully within China's sovereign rights and jurisdiction, therefore legitimate, lawful and beyond reproach, for China to carry out activities in these waters, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday.


A worker operates a harvester to reap highland barley at a 16,000-mu (about 1,067-hectare) planting base in Delingha City, northwest China's Qinghai Province, on Oct. 12, 2026.

A spectacular 3D light show illuminates ancient city walls. Visitors take the wheel of a tractor. A giant hydraulic press at a manufacturing plant demonstrates the precision of China's heavy industry. These are some of the experiences awaiting international city chiefs in Luoyang, Central China's Henan Province, where the 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue opened over the weekend.


The 140th edition of the Canton Fair will be held in three phases from Oct. 15 to Nov. 4 in Guangzhou. The first phase, themed "Advanced Manufacturing," will showcase cutting-edge products and technologies across 19 exhibition areas in five sectors, including electronics and home appliances, industrial automation, lighting and electrical equipment, hardware and tools, and new energy vehicles and smart mobility.
The 16th Airshow China, formally the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, will be held Dec. 7-13 in Zhuhai, southern China's Guangdong Province, organizers said Tuesday at a news conference in Beijing.

The 1st Global Challenge for Innovation in Embodied AI Applications and the 2026 China Robot Competition will be held concurrently in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, from Oct. 16 to 18, organizers said on Monday.
The 19th China-EU Investment and Trade Fair will be held in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, from Oct. 21 to 23, with business delegations from more than 20 countries expected to participate, according to officials.

Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi received the inaugural Honorary Achievement Award at the 18th Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, France, on Sunday in recognition of her contributions to world cinema.
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