"100 Percent Mission Completed!" Nine-year-old Yang Yiran's eyes lit up as he guided a simulator onto Mars, while children and parents leaned over consoles, waiting for their turn at the International Sci-Fi and Future Tech Expo, a highlight of the 2026 China Science Fiction Convention held in Beijing from this past Friday to Sunday.

March31,2026

China's rise in artificial intelligence (AI) technology has unlocked new opportunities for other countries and facilitated cross-border progress, the chairman of a Malaysian think tank has said.

March30,2026

At a food bar inside the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing, visitors are lining up not for a celebrity chef, but for a team of robot waiters.

March30,2026

From once being a latecomer in high-tech sectors to emerging as a global front-runner, China has made remarkable progress and is reshaping the global innovation landscape, said a British business leader.

March25,2026

Shenzhen, China's southern technology hub, is systematically transforming its urban fabric into an AI testbed, spanning smart factory floors, robot janitors, the nation's first AI Bureau and even an AI-powered court system.

March24,2026

At a rubber company in Hangzhou, a tech hub in east China's Zhejiang Province, a virtual car raced across the screen at 120 km/h, while the intelligent agent driving the vehicle ran an astounding 300 durability tests per second.

March20,2026

In early March, Yang Hanhan was surprised to find that an AI-generated short film about ancient Chinese general Huo Qubing, released by her team just a month ago, had quietly gone viral overseas.

March18,2026

From artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted diagnosis to smart health platforms, China is intensifying efforts to embed AI across its evolving digital healthcare ecosystem, seeking to further boost efficiency and broaden access to quality medical services.

March16,2026

China is driving continuous breakthroughs in frontier technologies, fostering the development of future industries as part of efforts to cultivate new growth engines.

February13,2026

In the past, foreign institutions investing in China relied on experienced "China hands" familiar with the country's economic policies and market dynamics, but the industry is now turning to new solutions.

February02,2026

Chinese startup Spirit AI has said that its Spirit v1.5 embodied intelligence foundation model now ranks first according to the RoboChallenge real-world robotics benchmark, surpassing a leading U.S. model.

January14,2026

China aims to achieve secure and reliable supply of key core artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by 2027, with its industrial scale and empowerment level remaining among the world's forefront, according to a recent government action plan.

January08,2026

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has released a work plan to deepen the integration of the industrial internet and artificial intelligence (AI), as part of a broader effort to strengthen the country's manufacturing sector.

January08,2026

In early 2025, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek grabbed headlines abroad with models promising high performance at a fraction of the usual cost. Yet while international discussion focused on how the company trained models and managed computing resources, another story has been unfolding inside China.

December29,2025

The scale of China's core artificial intelligence (AI) industry is expected to exceed 1.2 trillion yuan (about 170 billion U.S. dollars) in 2025, according to a research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

December15,2025