2 h. ago Airbus Watches China’s Rise, Expects to Meet Delivery Targets This Year

Airbus Watches China’s Rise, Expects to Meet Delivery Targets This Year  Skift

Society

10 h. ago Peek behind Putin’s hotel door shows China delivering a colourful welcome

Newly published video offers a rare glimpse into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stay in China last week, after a Russian state media journalist posted the footage to his Telegram channel. Contrary to the president’s public image as a tough guy, the Russian leader’s residence in China was decorated with colourful Chinese figurines. Footage posted by Pavel Zarubin on Monday showed dolls dressed in Chinese opera costumes, Chinese dancing lion statues and panda figurines in the style of Russian...

Politics

10 h. ago Where’s Labubu? Peek into Putin’s hotel reveals colourful China welcome

Newly published video has offered a rare glimpse into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stay in China last week, after a Russian state media journalist posted the footage to his Telegram channel. Contrary to his tough-guy public image, the Russian leader’s residence in Beijing was decorated with colourful Chinese figurines. Footage posted by Pavel Zarubin on Monday showed dolls dressed in Chinese opera costumes, Chinese dancing lion statues and panda figurines in the style of Russian nesting...

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12 h. ago China delivers first C909 medical aircraft for emergency, rescue missions

China delivers first C909 medical aircraft for emergency, rescue missions  chinadailyasia.com

Events

30 h. ago Cheche Expands NIO Partnership As Record Deliveries Fuel China EV Insurance Race

Cheche Expands NIO Partnership As Record Deliveries Fuel China EV Insurance Race  Yahoo Finance

Politics

38 h. ago Armless Chinese man delivers food on unicycle, uses lips on phone to call customers

A man in central China without arms delivers food on a unicycle and uses his lips to navigate his phone to call customers. What is more, after work at night he sets up a stall to sell calligraphy written with his feet to support his family. Inspirational Li Xiangyang, 30, from Hunan province, was born into a poor rural family and now lives with his wife and their two children. He lost both his arms when he was accidentally electrocuted at the age of four, a tragedy that also plunged his family...

Society

4 d. ago Chinese delivery rider and biker face off for 4 hours at narrow crossing

A food delivery rider and a man on an electric bike in southern China blocked each other for at least four hours at a narrow crossing, as neither was willing to budge. Video clips of these two determined individuals went viral on mainland China, delighting millions of internet users, according to Dafeng News. The incident took place on August 24 in the bustling Huicheng District of Huizhou, Guangdong province. It involved a food delivery man and a young man, both perched on their electric bikes,...

Politics

7 d. ago Indonesia’s Prabowo visits China after initially cancelling trip over protests

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto will visit China for a military parade commemorating 80 years since the end of World War II on Wednesday, a minister said, after earlier cancelling his trip over deadly protests last week stoked by the death of a young delivery driver. “Tonight, President Prabowo Subianto departed for Beijing, China, at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. He monitored the situation and received reports from all relevant officials that public life was gradually returning...

Events

7 d. ago Chinese delivery giant Meituan releases AI model to take on Alibaba, DeepSeek

On-demand local services giant Meituan has become the latest Chinese Big Tech company to release an open-source large language model (LLM) to market, more than two years after it acquired mainland AI start-up Light Year for US$281 million. Beijing-based Meituan, the long-standing leader of China’s food delivery market, on Monday released and open-sourced its own LLM, called LongCat-Flash-Chat, via artificial intelligence developer platforms Hugging Face and GitHub, as well as the model’s...

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7 d. ago NIO, XPeng, Li Auto Log Strong August Deliveries Highlighting China's EV Momentum

NIO, XPeng, Li Auto Log Strong August Deliveries Highlighting China's EV Momentum  Yahoo Finance

Politics

7 d. ago China's EV maker deliveries rebound, buoyed by cheaper new models

China's EV maker deliveries rebound, buoyed by cheaper new models  CNBC

Politics

8 d. ago Forget the food delivery war — Alibaba makes clear the real play in China is AI

Forget the food delivery war — Alibaba makes clear the real play in China is AI  Business Insider

Society

9 d. ago SCO summit a chance for China to assert itself as stable world power for peace

As Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomes a host of world leaders for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, he is delivering one overarching message – that China is a stable power that will protect peace and champion the developing world. Xi launched a flurry of Chinese diplomacy in the northern city of Tianjin on Saturday by meeting five state leaders and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ahead of Sunday’s start to the SCO’s two-day summit. He told Guterres that China was a...

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9 d. ago At SCO summit, Xi Jinping frames China as a source of certainty

As Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomes a host of world leaders for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, he is delivering one overarching message – that China is a stable power that will protect peace and champion the developing world. Xi launched a flurry of Chinese diplomacy in the northern city of Tianjin on Saturday by meeting five state leaders and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ahead of Sunday’s start to the SCO’s two-day summit. He told Guterres that China was a...

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1 week ago Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 Delivers First Cargo to China After Year

Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 Delivers First Cargo to China After Year-Long Wait, Signaling Possible Shift in Beijing’s Sanctions Stance  gCaptain

Transport

2 w. ago Trump threatens China with '200% tariff or something' if Beijing not deliver US magnets

Trump threatens China with '200% tariff or something' if Beijing not deliver US magnets  Anadolu Ajansı

Politics

2 w. ago China delivery man tells US teacher ‘I love you’ in lift; pair tie knot 5 months later

A food courier in northeast China who greeted a US nursery teacher he delivered noodles to with the words “I love you” in a lift married the woman five months later. Recently, the man, surnamed Liu, 27, from Shenyang, Liaoning province, shared his love story on social media. In a video, Liu introduced his wife as Hannah Harris, a 30-year-old from the US state of Alabama who moved to Shenyang last August to teach English at a kindergarten. In November last year, Liu first met Harris after she...

Society

2 w. ago China delivery man saves trapped woman after seeing pillow with ‘110’ written on it

A driver in China who spotted a white pillow scrawled with the emergency number 110 in blood during a food delivery has helped rescue a woman who was trapped in her bedroom for 30 hours without food or water. The incident unfolded on August 12, in Leshan, Sichuan province, southwestern China. The delivery driver surnamed Zhang, a university student working a summer job, spotted a white pillow stained with dark red liquid and marked with the numbers 110 625, lying on the roadside near a...

Politics

3 w. ago Alibaba, Ant combine forces to take on Meituan in instant commerce market

Alibaba Group Holding and its fintech affiliate Ant Group, both co-founded by Jack Ma, have joined forces to create an army of delivery service workers to defeat Meituan in the instant commerce market. A total of 22 businesses operated by Alibaba and Ant, including domestic online marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, Ant’s Alipay payment service and Alibaba Cloud, have pledged to improve the conditions of millions of delivery riders. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Alibaba’s move to pool...

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3 w. ago China’s Type 99A main battle tank sets benchmark for capability, survivability

China is preparing for a military parade next month to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II, with the People’s Liberation Army expected to showcase its latest line-up of land-based weapons systems. One of the systems playing a crucial role in Chinese ground forces is the Type 99A main battle tank (MBT), which incorporates multiple advanced technologies to enhance survivability and firing capability. While China continues to focus on modernising its navy and air force,...

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