Symposium held to study Xi's works on culture

Driven by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), computing power has evolved into indispensable new digital infrastructure. It enables a wide range of real-world applications: AI systems can now estimate caloric content from a simple photograph; massive traffic datasets are processed in real time to optimize urban mobility.

In northwest China's Shaanxi Province, university researchers are being placed inside companies as part-time tech deputies as a way to move lab work onto the factory floor. Their projects range from improving strawberry yields to breaking bottlenecks in advanced materials manufacturing.

China's railways saw the peak of the holiday return rush on Wednesday, with 24.15 million passenger trips expected on the final day of the National Day holiday, amid strong travel demand and vibrant tourism activity across the country.

Tourists wearing exoskeleton robots hike at the Hengshan Mountain scenic area in Hengyang City, central China's Hunan Province, Oct. 6, 2026. Advanced technologies such as exoskeleton devices, AI-powered glasses and robots have enabled diverse and dazzling experiences at tourist destinations across China during the National Day holiday.

The hall of the Chinese Cultural Center in Berlin was filled with anticipation. Many local residents arrived early to hear German writers Volker Haering and Christian Y. Schmidt share the story of their bicycle journey retracing the route of the Long March (1934-1936), a military maneuver by the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army that later became a defining chapter in modern Chinese history.