China aims to elevate basic education with focus on virtue, health and equity

A new home for giant pandas is set to welcome its first human visitors on Thursday, with this facility offering the fluffy national treasures a smarter, roomier and more nature-like living haven as the zoo celebrates its 120th anniversary this year with the landmark project.

Relief efforts are underway in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region after torrential rains triggered by Typhoon Maysak affected more than 2.6 million people, with emergency supplies distributed and thousands of displaced residents receiving assistance.

The 36th Qingdao International Beer Festival opened on Friday evening in the coastal city of Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, kicking off a 30-day celebration that blends brewing tradition with tech advances and cultural performances.

China has revealed a five-year plan to strengthen the protection of soil, groundwater and the rural ecological environment, according to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

​The Chinese mainland will create more opportunities for young people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to flourish, injecting youthful vitality into the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and national reunification, a senior mainland official said Friday.

In the first half of 2026, foreign capital inflows into China's high-tech services and manufacturing sectors increased by 61% year on year, accounting for 36% of total paid-in capital, up 11 percentage points from the same period last year, according to an official of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. It reflected a shift with foreign investors moving beyond China's cost and scale advantages in manufacturing to increasingly participating in "Created in China," said the official.

Net foreign investment inflows into China totaled about US$160 billion in the first five months of 2026, significantly higher than the same period last year, said an official from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange at a Friday press conference. Net inflows of foreign equity investment alone exceeded US$50 billion.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance. Here, China.org.cn reviews highlights of President Xi's remarks.

The "Code-M: Conversation in Music" camp brought artists, producers and songwriters to Shanghai from July 5 to 10, fostering dialogue between Chinese-speaking regions, Western counterparts and the international music markets.

Ninety years after the victory of the Long March (1934-36), what remains of this extraordinary journey? In Sangzhi County, Hunan Province — where the Second Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army set out on its Long March — British host Tudor Finneran explores how the belief forged during those difficult years continues to live on, from thriving rural industries to cultural traditions passed down through the generations.

​Eight people have been confirmed dead and 34 others remain missing after a rainfall-induced mountain collapse occurred along a section of the Wujiang River in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Friday, local authorities said.

An upgraded 2.0 version of the ScienceOne Omni scientific foundation model was launched on Friday at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in east China's Shanghai, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, has stressed the need to uphold the overall leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) over the work of people's congresses and promote the high-quality development of people's congress work.

An exhibition opened in the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) on Friday, highlighting the city's role in promoting exchanges between Chinese and Western civilizations through its cultural links with the Portuguese-speaking world.

​A Chinese defense spokesperson on Friday said that the "South China Sea arbitration" is a political farce masquerading as a legal process, and the so-called award carries no legal force in any sense.

​Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong called for stronger flood control and disaster prevention efforts during an inspection tour to northeast China's Jilin province from Tuesday to Thursday.

​A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Thursday criticized remarks by Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te on the Anti-Secession Law and the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, saying they distorted the purpose of the laws and sought to mislead the public.

China seeks to balance high-quality development with high-level environmental protection over the next five years as it advances the building of a Beautiful China, a senior official said on Thursday.

Affected by increased upstream water and other factors, the water level in Xi'an section of the Mudanjiang River has continued to rise recently. Embankment reinforcement works here are in full swing to build solid flood barriers.

​Seven people were killed and one went missing during a flash explosion involving an inflatable boat in waters near Mopanshan Island in the city of Xingcheng in northeast China's Liaoning province on Wednesday, the local government said on Thursday.