China, which has built one of the world's largest and strongest basic education systems spanning preschool through senior high, is moving to take the sector to a new level that will place greater emphasis on the well-rounded development of students.

China is upgrading its traditional industrial base while cultivating new sectors that could shape future competitiveness, seeking to move beyond scale and cost advantages toward a more innovation-driven industrial model, and inject new impetus into the country's high-quality development.

China's equipment manufacturing sector became a major driver of export growth in the first half of 2026, with export delivery value of the equipment industry rising 18.2 percent year on year and contributing nearly 50 percent of the growth in industrial exports, official data showed Monday.

As the first light spread across an orchard on the outskirts of Wuhan in central China, Zhang Shuwang loaded crates of freshly picked fruit onto a small autonomous delivery van.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday that the world has entered an unprecedentedly vigorous period of innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, bringing great opportunities and governance challenges.

An event promoting the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" was held on Wednesday in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

It was on a spring day 29 years ago that a farmer in Xihaigu, one of China's driest and poorest regions in the northwest, was making anxious yet sincere preparations to host guests from afar.

The 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony and deliver a keynote speech, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced on Monday.

A record number of passenger trips were made across China in the first half of 2026, with more than 2.3 billion recorded, up 5 percent from the previous year, according to data released by the national railway operator Monday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged full efforts in search-and-rescue operations after a fire at a shoe factory caused major casualties Thursday in Jinjiang City, east China's Fujian Province.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged all-out efforts in organizing flood emergency rescue, disaster relief, treatment of the injured and resettlement of the affected people after multiple regions were hit by floods.

A compilation of excerpts from discourses by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on methods for community-level work has been published by the Central Party Literature Press.

Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building has provided a new approach to party governance for political parties around the world, according to a think tank report released Thursday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday congratulated Abelardo de la Espriella on his election as president of Colombia.