China's digital industry revenue rose 12.9% year on year to 9.5 trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion) in the first quarter, while profits increased 23.6% to 737.8 billion yuan, according to official data released Thursday.
Part of the Zhoushan Islands in China's Zhejiang province, hundreds of kilometers from the mainland, lies Qushan Island, home to fewer than 100,000 residents.
Chinas household income growth slowed in the first quarter and failed to keep pace with GDP, underscoring the urgency for policymakers to quickly flesh out detailed measures under their previously announced income growth plans, economists said.
China's rural tap water coverage reached 96 percent by the end of 2025, the Ministry of Water Resources said Tuesday.
China's market regulator has conditionally approved Tencent's acquisition of podcasting and audio platform Ximalaya, imposing a series of restrictions aimed at curbing anti-competitive behavior in China's rapidly expanding online audio and music streaming markets.
Nine cases of the Andes virus hantavirus infections linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius have been reported, seven of which have been confirmed, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
Xuancheng — a city in Anhui province best known for producing quality paper — is experiencing a mini tourism boom thanks to a stray dog and a group of kindhearted taxi drivers who came to its rescue.
On Mother's Day, dozens of exquisite woolen weavings and cloisonne works were on display in Beijing, all created by women who share a common name: Modou Mama, or Model Mothers. The charity project, launched by the Red Cross Society of China and Alibaba Group, held its 20th anniversary celebration with an event themed "Model Mothers Bloom, Beautiful Journey Together."
The bullish momentum recently seen in the Chinese market is likely to continue thanks to the structural opportunities provided by the countrys rapid adoption of emerging technologies and ongoing economic recovery, said experts.
BEIJING, May 11--China on Monday outlined its 2026 legislative priorities, as the country released annual legislative plans for both the National Peoples CongressStanding Committee and the State Council.
THE HAGUE, May 11--Radboud University Medical Centerin the Netherlands has placed 12 employees in quarantine for six weeks as a precaution after incorrect procedures were followed while caring for a patient infected with hantavirus.
KINSHASA, May 11--At least 50 civilians have been killed over the past week in a series of attacks attributed to Allied Democratic Forcesrebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.Despite these operations, local observers said the ADF continues to expand its area of activity in eastern DRC.
LOS ANGELES, May 11--Passengers on a Frontier Airlines flight at Denver International Airport in the U.
MADRID, May 11--One of the 14 Spanish evacuees from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius on Sunday has tested preliminarily positive for the virus, Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia said Monday.The ship later departed for Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
LOS ANGELES, May 11--More than two dozen workers were evacuated Monday after a fire broke out on an offshore oil platform off the California coast, the U.
Chinese regulators fined two social media users a combined 450,000 yuan ($66,000) for spreading false claims about AI chip orders linked to a listed company, in a sign of tighter scrutiny of market rumors.
China purchased more than 338 million metric tons of autumn grain from the 2025 harvest season by the end of April, marking one of the highest levels in recent years, according to official data released on Sunday.
BEIJING, May 11--An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted Myanmar at 1936 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.
China's disease control authority said on Friday that the Andes hantavirus linked to an outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius poses a low public health risk in China, as the virus has no known natural host and no reported human infections in the country, according to local media reports.
The Andes strain of hantavirus that recently triggered a deadly outbreak on a luxury cruise ship has no natural hosts within China, and no human infections have ever been reported in the country, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
The vessel that was attacked near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday was Marshall Islands-flagged with Chinese crew on board, and there are no reports of casualties so far, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian confirmed on Friday.
Two men in China were sentenced to prison for illegally obtaining and selling more than 900 million personal data records used in so-called "open-box" cyberbullying, the Supreme People's Court of China said.
China's property market showed increased activity during the May Day holiday as several cities introduced fresh support measures aimed at boosting home purchases after a prolonged downturn.
China is expanding spring and autumn school breaks nationwide as local governments seek to boost domestic tourism and encourage more family travel, according to media reports.
Hong Kong police have adopted the mainland-made CS/LS7 submachine gun for use by their Counter Terrorism Response Unit and the Airport Security Unit.
China saw a record high number of inter-regional passenger trips during the just-concluded five-day May Day holiday, the Ministry of Transport said on Wednesday.
Residents in Xianfeng County in central China's Hubei province helped sell more than 4 metric tons of apples in 19 hours after a traveling vendor suffered a stroke during the May Day holiday.
China's railways handled about 158 million passenger trips during the eight-day May Day holiday travel rush.
China will launch a nationwide campaign to crack down on false advertising in online food sales, targeting e-commerce platforms, sellers and related service providers, the country's market regulator said.
The number of coffee shops in Shanghai has exceeded 10,000 for the first time, making it the city with the highest number of coffee outlets globally, according to an industry report.
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