The roof panels of the first batch of prefabricated houses were installed on Sunday afternoon in the quake-hit village in Gangchen Township of Baqen. Cable-laying and the installation of doors and windows have also progressed, as rescue and relief efforts continue after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the area. So far, seven prefabricated houses have been largely completed.

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China's gross ocean product exceeded 11 trillion yuan (about $1.65 trillion) in 2025, accounting for 7.9% of the country's GDP, according to a report issued jointly by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Natural Resources.

China's top political advisor Wang Huning on Saturday accompanied Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), on a visit to Dandong in northeast China's Liaoning Province. Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, conveyed General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping's cordial greetings and best wishes to Kim. Read full: en.people.cn/n3/2026/1025/c9…

China on Sunday marked the 81st anniversary of its recovery of Taiwan and observed Taiwan Recovery Day, with commemorative events held across the Taiwan Strait to honor the shared history of resistance against Japanese aggression and reaffirm calls for national reunification. Read full: en.people.cn/n3/2026/1026/c9…

Brazilian incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, candidate of the ruling Workers' Party, won Sunday's presidential runoff, according to results released by Brazil's Superior Electoral Court on Sunday night.

Autumn harvest is in full swing across China, with farmers gathering bountiful agricultural produce.

110 robots, one epic dance party! 🤖💃 A total of 110 Chinese humanoid robots showed off their moves in Jinan, East China's Shandong Province, on October 24, setting a Guinness World Records title for the most humanoid robots dancing simultaneously!

Seen from above, a winding road with multiple bends resembles a giant snake making its way through the lush mountains in Sangzhi County, central China’s Hunan Province.

China's central bank, the People's Bank of China, will issue a set of commemorative coins featuring giant pandas on Oct. 30, 2026. The front side of each coin will feature the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the main structure of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, along with the country's official name and the year of issurance. Each coin will feature engravings of two giant pandas cuddling together on the reverse side, which will also be inscribed with the denomination and weight of the coin, as well as the purity of the kind of precious metal used in the coin. All 15 coins of the 2027 edition will be legal tender in the country.

China launched a Long March-8A carrier rocket from the southern island province of Hainan on Sunday, sending a batch of internet satellites into space. The rocket lifted off at 10:03 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site. The payloads, the 28th group of low-orbit internet satellites, entered the designated orbit.

The China Great Wall Museum at the foot of the renowned Badaling Great Wall in Beijing reopened to the public on Saturday after an extensive renovation and upgrade. The museum, with a floor area of 16,000 square meters, features exhibition areas, educational and public service areas, collection storage areas and research spaces. Its permanent exhibition and special thematic displays explore the Great Wall's history and culture. The permanent exhibition features more than 700 cultural relics, including many on loan from museums across China.

A massive transformer weighing hundreds of tonnes is transported from Hengyang to Chenzhou in central China's Hunan Province. The transport vehicle has 252 wheels and stretches 83 meters in length. What an impressive feat of engineering!

The last pair of 500-m-long steel rails was laid on the track on Saturday, marking the completion of track laying for the Chongqing-Kunming high-speed railway. Spanning 700 km in southwest China, the railway has a designed speed of 350 km/h, and its Chongqing-Yibin section opened to traffic in September 2024.

China on Saturday expressed "grave concern" and "firm opposition" to a recent U.S. Treasury proposal that would expand and intensify restrictions on outbound investment in China, calling it a discriminatory move and a typical practice of overstretching the concept of national security. A spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce made the remarks in reply to a media query on the U.S. Treasury's proposed updates to the outbound investment security program, which are open for public comment. The proposed rules "run counter to the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, disrupt normal economic and trade cooperation between Chinese and U.S. enterprises, and undermine the international economic and trade order," the spokesperson said. China will closely follow further developments and reserve the right to take corresponding measures, the spokesperson noted. "U.S. restrictions on investment in China would not only harm China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation but also hurt the interests of U.S. firms," the spokesperson said, noting that investing in China is investing in the future as the country boasts immense consumption and investment potential with its super-large market. China urges the U.S. side to respect market economy principles, stop overstretching the concept of national security, stop politicizing and weaponizing economic and trade issues, and create a sound environment for bilateral economic and trade cooperation, according to the spokesperson.

October 24 marks International Gibbon Day, highlighting conservation efforts to protect these threatened primates. In China, the gibbon population in Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park, established in 2021, has continued to grow. According to official data, the population of Hainan gibbons has increased to 44 in seven groups, making it the only gibbon species in the world with a continuously growing population.

China on Saturday launched a Long March-4B carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, sending satellites 07-09 of the Yaogan-53 group and satellites 19-21 of the Yaogan-56 group into their preset orbits. The satellites are primarily used for scientific experiments, land and resource surveys, crop yield estimation, and disaster prevention and reduction. The launch marked the 673rd mission of the Long March carrier rockets.

China's fiscal revenue grew steadily in the first three quarters of 2026, with general public budget revenue reaching about 17.23 trillion yuan (about 2.56 trillion U.S. dollars) during the period, latest official data showed. The figure marked a 5.1% year-on-year growth, with the growth rate 0.4 percentage points higher than that in the first half of the year, according to data released Friday by the Ministry of Finance.

The first demonstration unit of China's new-generation, domestically developed medical heavy-ion accelerator has been completed in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, southern China, according to the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The completion marks a milestone in China's precision radiotherapy field and is expected to bring advanced cancer treatment to more patients while boosting the country's ion radiotherapy industry, the institute said.