China is helping drive the global energy transition with battery storage innovation and cost declines. Last year, 56% of all battery storage installed globally came from China, as highlighted by Ilina Stefanova, Head of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)'s Coalition for Action, at the 2026 World Energy Storage Conference in Ningde, Fujian.

Gasoline-powered cars accounted for less than a third of China's passenger car retail sales for the first time in September, as new energy vehicles reached a record 67% share, according to the China Passenger Car Association. "China's dependency on oil is dropping fast," Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on X, sharing the figures. Just five years ago, gasoline-powered cars held over 90% of the market. #ElectricVehicles #EnergyTransition

Inside the Zunyi Meeting memorial museum, visitors wearing VR headsets are plunged into Long March battle scenes, part of a broader push to use digital technology to preserve and revitalize Long March sites. Read more: xhtxs.cn/bfM0

China's 16th Arctic Ocean expedition team said Monday that its polar icebreaker Jidi had completed a pre-operational application test of domestically developed satellite internet along Arctic shipping routes xhtxs.cn/bfMR

Turning lemons into lemonade -- or, in this case, sand into greenery! A stretch of desert-edge land in Xinjiang has been transformed into farmland. Find out how growing medicinal herbs is bringing big benefits to local farmers.

China's national integrated computing power network is unleashing new industrial opportunities, supported by an increasingly complete industrial chain spanning upstream hardware, midstream platforms, and a widening range of downstream applications. xhtxs.cn/bfMb

At the Liangzhu Museum in Hangzhou, AI glasses are serving as conversational guides. Each answer is drawn from museum archives and archaeological reports, making the ancient Liangzhu culture more accessible.

How is a city on the grasslands of northern China becoming a computing hub? With cool weather, strong winds and plenty of sunshine, Ulanqab is attracting tech giants and tapping renewable energy to power its growing computing industry. #AI #GreenComputing #RenewableEnergy

#Robots are stealing the show at the 140th Canton Fair in Guangzhou, south China -- dancing with flawless precision, boxing punch for punch, and even ruling the badminton court. #CantonFair #AI

In less than two years, Inner Mongolia's computing capacity has nearly quadrupled, reaching 363,000 petaflops by August 2026, as large-scale data centers have sprung up across the region. The region is striving to move up the value chain, reinventing itself not only as a hub for green computing but also for token trading and AI applications #XinhuaHeadlines xhtxs.cn/bfK8

This Chinese man takes flight on a homemade hoverboard! From self-taught engineering to lift-off, Song Xingyu from Hubei Province in central China has built an experimental flying hoverboard from scratch. His test flight video shows him lifting off, hovering, and making smooth, low-altitude landings. Could this be a glimpse of personal flight in the future? #Innovation #Engineering #FlyingHoverboard

A new study from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences offers a new solution to one of agriculture's most persistent problems: pesticides that wash off crop leaves before they can do their job. xhtxs.cn/bfKi

How does a city of 21 million listen? Beijing's 12345 hotline handles over 70,000 requests every day. One call reveals one person's problem, thousands can show where the city needs to change. Here is how Beijing uses a public hotline, big data and AI to turn everyday complaints into citywide solutions, with a little hotpot drama along the way. #EyesOn #Beijing #UrbanGovernance #SmartCities #AI

Cotton harvesting is in full swing across 1.16 million mu (about 77,333 hectares) of cotton fields in Yuli County, northwest China's Xinjiang. Large cotton pickers move through the fields, picking and compressing the cotton into bales.

Chinese EVs are turning heads in Canada. 🚗🍁 A new survey found that 42% of Canadians who are leaning toward buying an electric vehicle said they might wait for more Chinese EVs to reach the market. #TrendyChina #ChineseEVs

China has approved four-year pilot programs for comprehensive hydrogen energy applications in five city clusters xhtxs.cn/bfJs

A newly unearthed Jurassic fossil was found in Zhenghe County, east China's Fujian Province. What makes this bird so surprising is not how well it flew, but the fact that it likely did not fly at all. The 150-million-year-old bird, named Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis, was about the size of a crow and lived during the Late Jurassic period. According to the study, Yuezhuornis is the earliest known example of a bird losing the ability to fly. For more: xhtxs.cn/bfGl

Nearly 400 experts from 43 countries met in Hangzhou for ITU Focus Group on Embodied AI for Multimedia Technologies 3rd Plenary Meeting. It's the first plenary held outside Geneva since the group's founding in February.

When you think of winemaking, you might picture vineyards, grape pickers and wine cellars. But today, technology is transforming the industry at every step -- from growing grapes and making wine to serving it at the table. Let's take a look!

China's research and development (R&D) expenditure rose 8.2 percent year on year to 3.93 trillion yuan (about 584.5 billion U.S. dollars) in 2025, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday. xhtxs.cn/bfHO