China has started sea trials for its most advanced amphibious assault ship, the Sichuan Type 076.

A railway bridge under construction in China has collapsed, killing at least 12 workers and leaving four missing.

Taiwan has cancelled a planned Taipei concert by a Chinese rapper over his use of the insulting term “Taipei, China” in promotional materials.

In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation’s entertainment industry.

A pair of giant pandas will soon make the journey from China to the U.S., where they will be cared for at the San Diego Zoo.

China’s space agency says its latest lunar explorer has arrived at the launch site in preparation for a mission to the moon in the first half of this year.

A government official from China’s Tibetan region has rejected allegations of forced assimilation and curbs on religious freedom, while stressing that Tibetan Buddhism should adapt to the Chinese context.

More than 100,000 people have been evacuated to safer areas as heavy rains bring flood risks to a region of southwest China that was devastated by heat and drought for most of the summer.

Twin giant pandas have been born at a breeding center in southwestern China, a sign of progress for the country’s unofficial national mascot as it struggles for survival amid climate change and loss of habitat.

Brush fires have forced the evacuation of more than 1,500 people in southwest China and power rationing for factories has reportedly been extended as weeks of record heat and drought batter the region.

China's agriculture ministry says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain.

Scorching heat during China's driest summer in six decades has left crops wilting and farmers struggling.

Ships are creeping down the middle of the Yangtze after China’s driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width.

Factories in China's southwest have shut down and a city imposed rolling blackouts after reservoirs to generate hydropower ran low in a worsening drought.

Ahead of the Beijing summer Olympics 14 years ago, Tibet was on fire.

China's ruling Communist Party says its initiatives have helped to lift millions of people out of poverty. Yi ethnic minority members were moved out of their mountain villages in Chinas southwest and into the newly built town in an anti-poverty initiative. Children who until then spoke only their own tongue, Nuosu, attend kindergarten in Mandarin, China’s official language. “We protect and promote the learning, use and development of the Yi language,” the provincial party secretary, Peng, told reporters. “So it is kind of safe to have the Yi language as a medium of education,” said Harrell.

Chinese policemen prepare for duty around a neighborhood sealed off before the official closure of the United States Consulate in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province, Monday, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)CHENGDU The American flag has been taken down at a U.S. consulate in southwestern China, according to state media, as officials vacate the premises under order of the Chinese government. State broadcaster CCTV said on its social media account that the flag was lowered at 6:18 a.m. on Monday at the U.S. mission in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan provine. China ordered the closing of the consulate on Friday in retaliation for a U.S. order to close the Chinese Consulate in Houston. A little boy posed with a small Chinese flag before plainclothes police shooed him away as foreign media cameras zoomed in.

A bus is guided out of the United States Consulate in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province on Sunday, July 26, 2020. China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades. A little boy posed with a small Chinese flag before plainclothes police shooed him away as foreign media cameras zoomed in. China ordered the closing of the Chengdu consulate in retaliation for a U.S. order earlier in the week to close the Chinese Consulate in Houston. The U.S. alleged that the Houston consulate was a nest of Chinese spies who tried to steal data from facilities in Texas, including the Texas A&M medical system and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Chinese police officers form up in front of the United States Consulate in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province Saturday, July 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)BEIJING Chinas foreign ministry complained Saturday that American law enforcement officials improperly entered its consulate in Houston, which was ordered to close in an escalating diplomatic feud. The Trump administration ordered the Houston consulate closed this week, saying Chinese agents tried to steal medical and other research in Texas. As for the U.S. sides forcible entry into the premises of the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, China expresses strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition, said a foreign ministry statement. China will make a proper and necessary response to this.The statement said that the Houston consulate was Chinese property, and that under diplomatic treaties American officials had no right to enter.

Copyright 2019 CNNCHINA -BEIJING (AP) - Chinese state TV is reporting that an earthquake in the country's southwest has killed one person and injured another 29. The government's earthquake monitoring center says the 5.4-magnitude quake struck the city of Neijiang in Sichuan province early Sunday. The causalities were reported by China Central Television, which gave no other details of the death or injuries. Earthquakes occur frequently in the area, which lies in the eastern slope of the Tibetan plateau. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.