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China's first 100-megawatt solar-thermal power plant successfully connected to the national grid on Thursday. The plant in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province is powered by 12,000 mirrors that concentrate sunlight onto…

1. First convoy formation On December 26, 2008 PLA Navy Wuhan, Haikou, and Weishanhu warships sailed from Sanya to carry out escort missions in Somali waters in the Gulf of…

China's first domestically-made regional jetliner, the ARJ21-700, completed its first manned overwater demonstration flight in southern China's island province of Hainan on Tuesday. An ARJ21-700 aircraft took off from Haikou…

Award-winning actor Chow Yun-Fat said in October that he would donate his entire net worth to charity, a whopping 5 billion yuan (around $723 million), garnering acclaim from netizens. In…

The producer of China's domestically-developed Wing Loong on Tuesday delivered the 100th unmanned aerial system (UAS) for export. The state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) started to export the…

An American man has adapted the Chinese Taoism classic text "Tao Te Ching" into a song, after spending 10 years translating the ancient book of philosophy into English. The man,…

An explosion in a lab at Beijing Jiaotong University on Wednesday morning has left three students dead, according to the municipal fire department. The blast occurred at 9:34 a.m. when…

The China-Japan maritime and air liaison mechanism is a useful tool to help avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments between the two countries, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Wednesday. Spokesperson Hua Chunying…

Work has begun on transforming the National Swimming Center, known colloquially as the Water Cube, into a venue that can host events at the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. To…

Yugouliang village in Hebei Province have embraced yoga, and it's changing the lives of the village's elderly residents, according to a report by Imagine China on Tuesday. Yugouliang village is…