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China's star sprinter Su Bingtian announced on Sunday that he will retire after the 15th National Games, which will be co-hosted by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in November 2025.
The 22.13-km Tianshan Shengli tunnel, located in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is set to become world's longest expressway tunnel. After 52 months of construction, it is expected to be fully drilled through on Monday.
A total of 179 people aboard a South Korean airplane that crashed on Sunday at the country's southwestern airport were believed to have been killed, with two rescued, multiple media outlets said citing the local fire authorities.
As the footsteps of time gently bring us to the end of this year, looking back on 2024, many small Chinese towns are making big waves. Though modest in size, they're brimming with potential, emerging as powerful new forces in China's economy, and carving out their places on the global stage.
World snooker number one Judd Trump has become a Hong Kong resident through the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme, according to the Immigration Department of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Tuesday. Trump arrived in Hong Kong on Monday to collect his Hong Kong identity card.
Two new 40-meter-aperture radio telescopes were put into operation after more than one year constructions.
Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Friday countermeasures against seven U.S. military companies and relevant senior executives in response to recent U.S. actions.
Chinese table tennis star and Olympic champion Fan Zhendong announced his decision to withdraw from the world rankings on Friday, citing new regulations introduced by World Table Tennis (WTT) that impose fines for non-participation.
Built in 1439 of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) along Beijing's central axis, the Zhengyangmen Archery Tower reopened to the public on Thursday.
China unveiled its largest and most advanced amphibious assault ship on Friday in Shanghai, naming it after the southwestern province of Sichuan. With a hull code of 51, the CNS Sichuan is the first in the Type 076 class.
The ship is equipped with world-class scientific equipment and is able to conduct comprehensive surveys of oceanic elements. It also has a bidirectional icebreaking capability that enables it to operate in polar regions in the summer.
The "Yunxian Man" fossil human skulls are the most complete ones found in Eurasia for the same era, providing key evidence for the study of the evolution of Homo erectus in East Asia.
Chinese archaeologists have reported a significant breakthrough in their research on the Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 B.C.), China's earliest known dynasty. They discovered rammed earth structures highly suspected to be the city walls of a Xia Dynasty capital.
In 2024, Chinese athletes won a total of 194 world championships across 33 events, setting a new all-time record, according to a report released by the Competitive Sports Department of the General Administration of Sport of China on Thursday.
In the latest W.E. Talk, Zhang Yansheng, researcher of the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, pointed out that China's strategy to boost domestic demand, promote high-level opening-up, and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces will profoundly reshape its role and position in the world and the Asia-Pacific region.
China’s independently developed deep-sea multi-functional scientific investigation and cultural relics archaeological vessel, Tansuo-3, was officially delivered in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province on Thursday.
The South Korean government announced on Thursday it is considering a pilot visa-free policy for Chinese tour groups.
Phase I of Huaneng Nagu Photovoltaic Power Station, the world’s highest-altitude solar power project, started operation in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Tuesday.
An archeologist displays a gilt dragon pattern copper sword of the Han Dynasty (1271 - 1368) after restoration in Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province.
The Guzang Festival is a grand ceremony held every 13 years by the Miao ethnic people to worship their ancestors. It was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in 2006.
At an altitude of more than 4,000 meters above sea level, it is covered with snow all year round and the air is very thin.
(ECNS) -- Research data on the development of China's ice and snow industry shows that the country expects a record-high 500 million visits during the 2024-25 snow season. China's ice and snow industry is expected to reach a staggering 100.53 billion yuan (about $13.77 billion) in 2025, the report noted. Winter has triggered a boom in ice and snow tourism, with several ski resorts in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region having opened. Data shows that during the last snow season, Altay in Xinjiang received a total of 4,888,300 tourists, with a daily average of 20,000, achieving a total tourism revenue of 5.103 billion yuan.
Flight number PN6425 operated by West Air departed from Lhasa Gonggar International Airport in Xizang Autonomous Region on Wednesday for Singapore's Changi Airport, marking the opening of a new China-Singapore route.
Hangzhou City, located in Zhejiang Province, is renowned for its technological innovation, and is also one of the leading cities in the development of China's robot industry.
This year, China has made remarkable progress in sci-tech innovation. With technological breakthroughs in quantum computing, advancements in commercial spaceflight, the rise of humanoid robots, new developments in 6G, and the rapid growth of AI-generated content (AIGC), it has been a year like no other.
The first chartered flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, successfully landed at Taiping International Airport on Wednesday.
With an annual utilization time of 1,735 hours, the Kela Photovoltaic Power Station has an installed capacity of one million kilowatts and can generate 2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity on average per year.
Double-deckers for sightseeing were launched in Harbin to serve tourists on Tuesday.
Top 10 domestic sci-tech news in 2024 was released on Tuesday by Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. They are:
The China-Europe freight train from Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, has expanded its route to reach the northernmost region of Kazakhstan, further promoting high-level international trade.
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