A wartime grain loan certificate discovered within an old family home in eastern China has been donated to local authorities nearly eight decades later, illuminating a villager’s remarkable faith in the troops.
In 1947, a major People’s Liberation Army (PLA) unit entered the Dabie Mountains, which stretch across the borders of three provinces in central China, during a counteroffensive against Kuomintang forces. The harsh conditions on the battlefield had left the troops desperately short of food and other essential supplies.
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Hong Kong’s hygiene authorities have arrested 14 people during a citywide crackdown on unlicensed hawkers and seized 600kg (1,320lbs) of food, some of which was expired.
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Chief Health Inspector Chan Sze-man, responsible for hawkers, said on Wednesday that the suspects, aged 38 to 76, were arrested in various districts between July 17 and 28.
All of the suspects held Hong Kong identity cards.
She emphasised that the department
Employers in China anticipate a slightly higher median salary increase next year as they push to retain top-tier talent despite financial pressures following a soft 2026, according to data published by a global advisory.
Companies were budgeting for a median increase of 4.5 per cent in 2027, following 4.3 per cent growth in 2026 and 4.5 per cent in 2025, the advisory and broking firm WTW said in a new report.
Even so, the
The Beijing-based start-up on Tuesday launched the “Kimi Ambassador Program”, aimed at “passionate Kimi users to build up communities and the future of AI”, according to its website.
The move comes as Moonshot seeks to turn the growing attention around Kimi K3 into broader adoption among developers and creators.
Unlike traditional software products, AI models
The African Youth Survey polled 4,901 respondents aged 18 to 24 and split equally between males and females, in 16 of Africa’s 54 countries, asking them which foreign powers had influence on their country.
The report said 81 per cent agreed that the US was influential, while 79 per cent
Dr Shaoshan Liu is director of embodied AI at the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS).
China’s emerging advantage in artificial intelligence (AI) is not that it already has the world’s best chips or strongest frontier models. It is that Chinese companies are increasingly providing capable intelligence at a price the global market can afford.
AI is fast becoming everyday infrastructure. It is metered by usage and embedded in
Advanced technologies now account for around one in every six valid invention patents in China, according to official data.
“The accelerated accumulation of patents in cutting-edge sectors is empowering and enhancing