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Satellite image of a super typhoon spinning over the ocean, illustrating the kind of storm system involved

时政 News

台风“沙德尔”登陆浙江后减弱，暴雨扩散至多个省份

Typhoon Saudel Weakens After Landfall in Zhejiang as Heavy Rain Spreads to Multiple Provinces

HSK 5· 3 min read

Exterior of the Center for Language Education and Cooperation building in Beijing, the government agency that organizes the HSK exam.

大学 Universities

HSK3.0第二次全球试考：9月20日开考，3至6级须与口语同时报名

HSK 3.0's Second Global Trial: Exam Set for September 20, Levels 3-6 Now Require Simultaneous Oral Registration

HSK 5· 5 min read

时政 News

国内油价今晚迎新一轮调整，机构预计每升上涨约0.3元

China's Fuel Prices Set for New Adjustment Tonight, Institutions Expect About 0.3 Yuan More Per Liter

HSK 5· 4 min read

Bottled Nongfu Spring beverages, including a C100 vitamin water drink, displayed together

经济 Business

农夫山泉:茶饮收入反超老对手康师傅

Nongfu Spring's Tea Drinks Overtake Old Rival Master Kong

HSK 5· 5 min read

经济 Business

泡泡玛特上半年营收增长近24%，净利润却不及预期

Pop Mart's H1 Revenue Jumps Nearly 24%, But Profit Falls Short

HSK 5· 4 min read

The National Museum of China's exterior facade on Tiananmen Square in Beijing

文化 Culture

博物馆展览查错字：国家文物局要求全国核查整改

Typos in museum exhibits trigger a nationwide review

HSK 5· 4 min read

Satellite image of Hainan Island and the surrounding South China Sea waters, one of the coastal areas under typhoon and rainstorm alerts.

时政 News

第19号台风“紫檀”逼近华南，多地进入四级应急响应

Typhoon "Zitan" Approaches South China as Regions Raise Emergency Response

HSK 5· 4 min read

Passengers walk along a crowded platform at Beijing Railway Station

时政 News

12306新增“新生预约”功能，助新生开学购票

12306 Adds "Freshman Reservation" Feature to Ease Ticket-Buying for New Students

HSK 5· 4 min read

Skyline view of Haikou, the Hainan Province capital that recorded the country's heaviest rainfall on August 19

时政 News

中国南方多地发暴雨预警，海口24小时降雨超200毫米

Southern China Issues Rainstorm Warnings as Haikou Records Over 200mm of Rain in 24 Hours

HSK 5· 3 min read

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaking with an Australian counterpart at a diplomatic dinner

国际 Global

王毅将出访韩国和印度尼西亚

Wang Yi to Visit South Korea and Indonesia

HSK 5· 4 min read

A plate of Jiangxi-style duck stewed in beer, dark and glossy with sauce.

读书 Read

处暑的鸭子

A Duck for the End of Heat

HSK 5· 4 min read

Students in a Chinese university lecture hall watching a lesson on a projector screen

大学 Universities

海南自贸港黎安试验区：不出国也能拿两校学位

Hainan's free-trade-port pilot zone: a degree from two schools without leaving China

HSK 5· 4 min read

A ticket hall at Shanghai Railway Station, with red departure boards overhead, staffed ticket windows on the left and a row of self-service ticket machines on the right, one traveler walking past

大学 Universities

没有学生证也能买优惠票：12306上线新生预约购票功能

No student ID yet? 12306 launches advance ticket booking for incoming freshmen

HSK 5· 4 min read

A Long March 12 rocket lifting off from its launch pad at the Hainan Commercial Aerospace Launch Site (file photo, from an earlier flight of the same rocket)

科技 Tech

中国成功发射卫星互联网第24组卫星

China launches its 24th batch of satellite-internet satellites

HSK 5· 4 min read

大学 Universities

124所职业本科：是本科，但不是普通本科

124 vocational universities: a Chinese bachelor's degree, but not the usual kind

HSK 5· 6 min read

Rows of life-size terracotta soldiers standing in the excavated earthen trenches of Pit 1 at the Terracotta Army site near Xi'an

文化 Culture

兵马俑停电之后，国家文物局紧急部署博物馆暑期应急管理

After a blackout at the Terracotta Army, China's heritage bureau orders museums to shore up summer emergency plans

HSK 5· 3 min read

经济 Business

中国7月新车销量：新能源汽车第一次超过六成

China's July car sales: new-energy vehicles top 60% for the first time

HSK 5· 2 min read

A large round Qijiepan offering wheel for the Seven Sisters festival, with tiny figures re-enacting the Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend at its centre, flanked by embroidered garments and a red altar table with fruit and incense, in the Hong Kong Museum of History.

读书 Read

巧云学摆七娘

Qiaoyun Learns to Arrange the Qiniang Display

HSK 5· 6 min read

The T-shaped silk painting from Lady Xin Zhui's tomb at Mawangdui, showing its three-tier composition of heaven, the human world and the underworld

文化 Culture

马王堆两幅T形帛画上海"接力"展出，一号墓帛画8月16日后或长期不再亮相

Two Mawangdui silk paintings take turns in a Shanghai gallery — after Aug 16, the original from Tomb 1 may vanish from view for years

HSK 5· 5 min read

A Unitree G1 humanoid robot walking through a crowd at a trade expo, its screen-like face lit blue

经济 Business

宇树科技上市：中国“人形机器人第一股”来了

Unitree Robotics goes public: China gets its first humanoid-robot stock

HSK 5· 6 min read

The first page of the Portuguese–Chinese dictionary compiled by Jesuit missionaries around 1583

科技 Tech

AI 能当翻译，那我们还要学外语吗？

If AI can translate, do we still need to learn languages?

HSK 5· 3 min read

Students revising together before an exam at a Beijing school

时政 News

HSK 改版：六个等级变成九个

The HSK is changing: six levels become nine

HSK 5· 8 min read

The Alibaba group headquarters in Hangzhou

科技 Tech

中国的 AI 模型，这个夏天追上来了

China's AI models caught up this summer

HSK 5· 3 min read

A street food stall on Wangfujing in Beijing

经济 Business

年轻人为什么开始存钱了

Why young people started saving

HSK 5· 2 min read

The main building of Moscow State University

国际 Global

中国学生也在往俄罗斯走

Chinese students are heading to Russia too

HSK 5· 8 min read

The twin brick spires of St Ignatius Cathedral in Shanghai

信仰 Faith

徐家汇天主堂：上海的一百多年

St Ignatius, Xujiahui: a Shanghai century

HSK 5· 2 min read

The pedestrianised shopping street at Wangfujing, Beijing

经济 Business

为什么政府希望大家多花钱

Why the government wants people to spend

HSK 5· 3 min read

Apartment and office towers under a bright sky in Shenzhen

大学 Universities

深圳北理莫斯科大学：一所两国合办的学校

Shenzhen MSU-BIT: a university run by two countries

HSK 5· 7 min read