By Wang Zhou, People’s Daily In recent years, autonomous driving scenarios have become increasingly common in Beijing, the capital of China, especially in the Beijing High-Level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone located in the city’s Economic-Technological Development Area, or Beijing E-town. If you go to E-town from the Beijing Daxing International Airport, autonomous cabs are at…

By Lin Zihan Recently, a Chinese-made aircraft leased by Indonesia arrived in Jakarta. It marked China’s first cross-border leasing of a homegrown aircraft settled in offshore Chinese yuan. As China reaches agreements with more trading partners and strengthens the use of local currencies in international trade and financial transactions, cross-border transactions between China and other…

By Wang Junling Recently, leading Chinese companies in the large model sector, including ByteDance, Baidu, Alibaba Cloud and Zhipu AI, have announced significant reductions in the prices of their generative artificial intelligence (AI) large models and related services. Many of these companies have lowered their prices by more than 50 percent, and some products have…

By Liu Shi’an, Huang Xiaohui, People’s Daily A humanoid robot developed by a company in the Zhangjiang AI Robot Valley, Shanghai has gained new capabilities. Apart from walking rapidly and avoiding obstacles, it is now able to wave its two robotic arms freely, recognize different scenes and learn. The robot may perform many professions in…

By Lyu Shaogang, People’s Daily Nestled amidst towering skyscrapers and bustling streets, the Guangdong Neilingding-Futian National Nature Reserve, located in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong province, is the only one of its kind located in the heart of a city, offering a tranquil view adorned with lush mangrove trees and graceful birds in flight. Shenzhen, a…

By Yang Yanfei, People’s Daily A small county inhabited by 100,000 people in east China just created this unbelievable miracle – nurturing over 40,000 bakers in the past 30 years and opening 16,000 bakeries across the country. It boasts a bakery industry whose annual output nears 30 billion yuan ($4.14 billion), and has incubated a…

By Zhu Hong, Weng Yufei, Ardak, People’s Daily During a break from farm work, Seytnisa Mamat pulled out her phone to track the shipping status of the items she bought online. “The detergents I bought have arrived. Let me go and get them,” the woman said, hurrying towards a courier service station in her village….

By Li Jiabao, People’s Daily Recently, a cargo train carrying 50 twenty-foot equivalent units of photovoltaic (PV) modules departed from Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province for Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan. As the first PV products-dedicated freight train between Wuhan and Central Asia, it will further promote China-Central Asia green cooperation. Green has become the defining…

By Liu Shiyao, People’s Daily China’s 40th Antarctic expedition successfully concluded as Xuelong, the country’s first domestically built polar icebreaker, returned to a port in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong province on April 10. This year marks the 40th anniversary of China’s polar expedition. Over the past four decades, China has continuously strengthened its comprehensive capabilities…

By Xie Weiqun, People’s Daily At about 11 a.m., May 26, China’s first domestically-built large cruise ship, the Adora Magic City, berthed at a cruise terminal in Baoyang Road, Baoshan district of Shanghai, preparing for its 35th voyage since its commercial maiden journey on January 1 this year. After a while, passengers started boarding the…