Hong Kong recorded a record-low birth rate, rising special-needs diagnoses, and a decade-high number of youth suicides in 2025, raising questions about how schools and health systems manage risk.

A Guangzhou robotics firm is extending its fair demonstrations into bilingual guiding and other tasks, exposing the challenge of reusing skills across jobs and environments.

A Chinese feature follows workers who repeatedly perform everyday motions to create robot-training data, showing both the labor behind embodied AI and the jobs it may eventually displace.

The Wire China asks whether reported advances in homegrown lithography signal progress against a major chipmaking bottleneck, but the supplied excerpt gives no technical specifics.

At a Beijing forum, former commerce minister Chen Deming urged more investment agreements to support Chinese companies abroad and rejected the idea that trade surpluses are simply overcapacity.

Meta's open-weight Muse Spark targets long-running agent tasks, but its own benchmarks show weaker coding results than Chinese models on two tests.

Premier Li Qiang called for broader cooperation with Uzbekistan in minerals, energy, finance, connectivity, and AI as Beijing competes with Washington for influence in Central Asia.

Hong Kong's corals have recovered from past stress, but divers, conservationists, and researchers warn that repeated damage and extreme weather could overwhelm that resilience.

Chen Guangyu, a co-first author on Kimi architecture work, says he has left Moonshot AI and is heading to the San Francisco Bay Area, but not to Anthropic.

Chinese officials condemned Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's ritual offering at Yasukuni Shrine, adding another source of tension in China-Japan relations.

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DeepSeek has combined its app, web, platform, and agent teams into a product division, sharpening the question of how it will serve a large free user base without weakening its low-cost positioning.

A growing set of Chinese business owners is making direct venture investments with family capital, partly as traditional venture funds face more state-linked and local-government obligations.

Chinese coverage highlights a US official's insult about China's toilets and the foreign ministry spokesperson's pointed invitation to visit, contrasting two styles of public diplomacy.

The Wire China argues that Europe's trade tools extend beyond import limits and that China's current economic model will keep the two sides in conflict.

A Chinese naval hospital ship is providing free medical consultations in Guinea, combining clinical service with a visible element of China's overseas engagement.

The Wire China frames Beijing's growing investment in foundational science against what it describes as US retrenchment from blue-sky research.

Apple updated iOS to recognize China's shifting holiday and make-up work schedule, a small software change that points to the unusual complexity of the official calendar.

A Chinese analysis argues that AI rivalry increasingly turns on compute, deployment economics, developer ecosystems, and rules for data and model access—not just benchmark scores.

Researchers identified fingerprints on Terracotta Army figures that they say may belong to adult men, adult women, and children, challenging the image of an all-male workforce.

As China marks the Long March anniversary, some young people say its story offers stability while they face uncertainty about their lives and futures.

Ge Wutongzhi, a Hangzhou embodied-AI startup led by a former Huawei automotive researcher, has raised nearly 100 million yuan (roughly $14 million) to develop robot manipulation systems.

A Beijing think tank says China could learn from a US defense effort that identifies future battlefield needs, while avoiding conflicts of interest in the American model.

A joint government notice encourages cinemas to use idle hours for live sports and promotes mixed film-and-sports events as a way to broaden venue use.

US commanders say land-based forces in the Indo-Pacific would be essential in a conflict with China, challenging assumptions that such a war would be fought mainly at sea and in the air.

Chinese farms and solar projects are increasingly being combined on the same land, and the article says companies are exporting that dual-use expertise.

A 100MW/400MWh project in Hebei will combine lithium-ion and sodium-ion storage, with grid-performance requirements shaping the choice of a large-format cell.

NPCTalk combines speech recognition, a Qwen model, voice synthesis, and action control so players can talk to game characters in real time.

Ophthalmologist Qian Jiang has moved back to China and will pursue eye-transplant research at a hospital affiliated with Zhejiang University.

China's embassy says citizens caught trying to enter Israel unlawfully for work risk detention, deportation, and consequences for people who assist them.

A preview of a QCon talk describes a China-focused push to move models from cloud chat into vehicles and consumer devices, where latency and reliability become deployment constraints.

A headline says a Zhejiang University team is proposing a benchmark around a key robotics distinction: recognizing something is not the same as remembering it.

Delegates at the biodiversity convention's COP17 will review progress on the Kunming-Montreal framework, the global agreement setting 2030 nature-protection goals.

A Shenzhen industry expo brought chip-equipment, materials, design, packaging, and AI-infrastructure firms together, with organizers emphasizing domestic capability and supply-chain coordination.

Chinese public REITs are recovering from a sharp market decline as new offerings extend into commercial property, coal power, and rental housing.