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The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is no relic of the past—it lives and breathes with the people. Join Chinese and foreign youth to see how this ancient waterway weaves into modern urban life, and feel the warmth and vitality of a living heritage that continues to flow with the city!
How is cutting-edge tech breathing new life into China's Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal inscribed on the UNESCO's world heritage list? Join Chinese and foreign youth to uncover the secrets of digital twins and smart systems protecting this ancient waterway, and see how technology keeps millennia‑old wisdom flowing into the future!
On July 16, the Signing Ceremony of the Agreement on the Establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) was held in Shanghai. Representatives from 29 countries, including Kazakhstan, Laos, Pakistan, Russia and Indonesia, signed the agreement as founding members.
To promote international exchange and cooperation, the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance is being held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20, themed “AI Partnership for a Brighter Future.”
The Grand Canal has been flowing for 2,500 years. It still carries boats and water, and it still runs through cities. But keeping it in working order requires more than traditional maintenance today. It requires laser scanning to assess the state of every stone, sensors to detect the slightest movement, and data to make sense of it all. Abubaker Hayaty, a doctoral student at Zhejiang University, has spent years studying how cultures communicate. His friend Ke Ning works at the Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum Cluster and knows the canal's history intimately. Both have spent years around this waterway. But the technology now being used to protect it is new to both of them.
At a recent policy briefing in Beijing on promoting and improving people's well-being through high-quality development, Yin Hejun, minister of science and technology, elaborated on the key tasks for building China's strength in science and technology during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030) while giving a systematic overview of the achievements in sci-tech innovation and the new situations and challenges.
Since the national sci-tech conference in June 2024 underscored the importance of sci-tech modernization and innovation in pursuing Chinese modernization and high-quality development, China has entered the fast lane in building a strong country in science and technology. Its sci-tech strength has achieved overall improvement, and its innovation momentum has shifted from scaling up to a leap in quality and efficiency. The overall efficiency of the national innovation system continues to rise.
Organoids are mini lab-grown organs that help test drugs without human trials. But their cultivation has long been a gamble — poor consistency and lack of standards have blocked their clinical use.
China's first Cluster for Headquarters of International Science and Technology Organizations recently launched the construction of a functional expansion zone at the Donghu International Center in Chaoyang district, Beijing. In the three years since its establishment in 2023, the cluster has attracted 16 international sci-tech organizations. Beijing is now home to 55 international sci-tech organizations, the most in China.
The Fourth China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE), held in Beijing from June 22 to 26, was themed "Connecting the World for a Shared Future."
By developing new quality productive forces, the ongoing tech innovation ensures the sustainability of China's granary along with a more stable and higher-quality food supply.
A Chinese and a Sudanese young ambassador recently visited the Hangzhou Comprehensive Protection Center for the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (Hangzhou Section), to witness firsthand how a millennium‑old living waterway is being safeguarded with the "Smart Canal" system.
The idea of drones delivering goods that could be delivered by truck and using auto hybrid power technology to do it, sounds a bit crazy, right? However, this is exactly what a young team from the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics(CAAA) has developed.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), China's capacity for scientific and technological innovation significantly improved, with breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields accelerated, according to an official report released by the National Bureau of Statistics on June 2.
China has become the first country to grant frequency usage permits for sixth-generation (6G) technology trials. This key regulatory step, made possible after the 6GHz band was approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), will shift 6G research from laboratory simulations to scenario validation, significantly accelerating its commercialization.
During the recently concluded World Intelligence Expo 2026 in Tianjin, China, over 150 types of embodied robots showcased their astonishing skills, making the Embodied Intelligence Pavilion the focus of the entire event. This technological feast benefited from systematic breakthroughs in fundamental technologies such as computing power, chips and operating systems (OSs).
Have you ever encountered such kind of technology which can enable you to see porcelain details that a camera cannot capture? Here in Jingdezhen, east China, when a porcelain piece is scanned into a computer, even the bubbles beneath the glaze are perfectly visible. Check it out!
In Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute in east China's Jiangxi province, with the aid of AI, missing ceramic patterns now can be restored in just five munites, while previously it may take months.
It is China's first long-term fixed-site research station for grassland ecosystems established in the temperate grassland region, situated in the Xilingol grassland in north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
When Ozge Atalay, a ceramic art student from Izmir, Türkiye, learned the craft in her own country and Germany, she was taught to work only with her hands. Then she spent half a year in Jingdezhen in east China, renowned as the millennia-old porcelain capital of China, and her Chinese friend Zhao Nan, a young inheritor of Peking Opera facial mask making, showed her otherwise.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to the Science and Technology Daily on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its founding.
Russian zoologists have found 6 previously unknown species of the huntsman spider belonging to the genus Pandercetes in Southeast Asia and the Australasian region. The findings mark the first recorded presence of these spiders in Indonesia’s Sumatra, the Philippines, and Laos.
