China’s Tianwen 2 asteroid sampling spacecraft has been on its interplanetary itinerary for more than four months, and is now over 43 million kilometers away from Earth, according to the China National Space Administration. The robotic probe is currently traveling on a transfer trajectory toward its destination, a near-Earth asteroid called 2016 HO3, and is in good working condition, the space administration said in a news release on Wednesday. It is about 45 million km from the celestial body, the administration added. The CNSA also released an image taken by…
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China’s tech hub Shenzhen has successfully issued 2025 offshore yuan-denominated government bonds in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Monday, local news portal sztv.com.cn reported on Tuesday. The report said that the move marks the fifth consecutive year that Shenzhen has arranged for local government bonds to be underwritten, registered, and listed in Hong Kong, continuously advancing the interconnectivity of financial markets in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The total issuance size of the bonds is 4 billion yuan ($56 million), with maturities of 2, 5, and 10…
The container ship Istanbul Bridge completed loading its final container at Berth 7 of the Beiyi Container Terminal in Ningbo Zhoushan Port, East China’s Zhejiang Province, on Monday. It is scheduled to depart on September 24 for Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container port, via the Arctic shipping route, marking the official launch of the world’s first China-Europe Arctic container express route. The route, operated by the Chinese-invested shipping company Sea Legend, cuts the shipping period by 22 days compared with traditional routes and reduces carbon emissions by about 50 percent.…
HEFEI — The list of 2025 China’s Top 500 Manufacturing Enterprises was released Saturday at the World Manufacturing Convention in Hefei, East China’s Anhui province. Jointly issued by the China Enterprise Confederation (CEC) and the China Enterprise Directors Association (CEDA), the ranking has been published for 21 years in a row, highlighting the consistent progress of China’s manufacturing sector. Based on companies’ operating revenue, the list shows that the threshold for entry rose from 11.09 billion yuan ($1.56 billion) at the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020) to…
The second comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau successfully conducted the Jimu 1 tethered balloon atmospheric observation experiment in Lunang town, Nyingchi, Xizang autonomous region. The tethered balloon, which carried 16 types of scientific payloads across three major categories weighing about 200 kilograms, ascended to 5,500 meters above sea level. Through coordinated multi-payload observations, the experiment marked a technological leap from single-point sampling to three-dimensional monitoring. Zhang Taihua, a senior engineer at the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the experiment accurately obtained…
Inside a workshop of Jilin SSK Electromechanical Co in Northeast China in late August, robotic arms moved with precision as workers performed final adjustments on a shipment of machines bound for Russia. The shipment marked the fourth delivery to Northeast Asia this year by the company, a manufacturer of intelligent poultry slaughtering and deep processing equipment in Siping, Jilin province. From January to July, Jilin SSK’s total foreign trade value surged to 31.96 million yuan ($4.48 million), jumping 612.3 percent year-on-year, with exports to countries in the region reaching 17.13…
Global pharmaceutical leader Novartis will deepen its investment in China, buoyed by an accelerating innovation ecosystem and regulatory reforms in the country, two senior executives said. During a recent interview with China Daily, Shreeram Aradhye, president of development and chief medical officer, and Patrick Horber, president of its international unit, expressed strong confidence in the Chinese market and emphasized the company’s commitment to local collaboration in research, development, and commercialization. “The world now sees China as not only a fast follower to other innovation, but also a source of new…
A US lawmaker’s reported call for the US administration to restrict or suspend Chinese airline landing rights in the US over rare earths access is “utterly absurd,” a Chinese expert said on Friday, noting that such a move would lead to an “unimaginable scenario” of a severance of commercial air routes between the two countries. John Moolenaar, chair of a US House of Representatives committee on China, on Thursday US time called the US administration to restrict or suspend Chinese airline landing rights in the US unless China restores full…
Framework deal is breakthrough in long-running dispute over app’s ownership amid security concerns in Washington Jamieson Greer, a US trade representative, said on Monday that Washington and Beijing have struck a framework agreement on transferring TikTok to US-controlled ownership. Speaking after emerging from negotiations with Chinese officials, Scott Bessent said the deal was coming but declined to reveal the commercial terms. “We have a framework for a TikTok deal,” the treasury secretary told reporters after coming out of high-level talks in Madrid. “We’re not going to talk about the commercial…
At the seventh Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo, Gansu province revealed a restored version of Cave 57 from the Mogao Grottoes, brought to life through advanced three-dimensional reconstruction technology. The restoration is so precise that it replicates the caves’ original structure and size, mural colors and textures, and the artistic charm of its sculptures, making it almost indistinguishable from the original. Also, the province’s Digital Dunhuang initiative has made significant strides. The Digital Library Cave database platform now includes more than 74,000 entries — featuring a vast array of…