People shop at a supermarket in Zaozhuang City, east China's Shandong Province, March 9, 2025.
China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, was down 0.7 percent year on year in February, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Sunday. (Photo by Sun Zhongzhe/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo shows a test train running on a railway bridge in Wulong District of Chongqing, southwest China, March 9, 2025.
With a designed speed of 350 km per hour, the 250-km-long Chongqing section of Chongqing-Xiamen high speed railway started a joint testing covering all its seven stations on Sunday. (Photo by Huang Jiji/Xinhua)
Staff members talk with audience during the premiere of the Chinese animated film "Ne Zha 2" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 8, 2025.
Chinese animated film "Ne Zha 2" premiered on Saturday in Malaysia. The film will be officially released in Malaysia on March 13. (Xinhua/Cheng Yiheng)
China's Minister of Civil Affairs Lu Zhiyuan, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Ni Hong, and head of the National Health Commission Lei Haichao attend a press conference on people's livelihood for the third session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, capital of China, March 9, 2025. (Xinhua/Lyu Shuai)
A man interacts with his horse during the celebration of the traditional "Tudorita" holiday, also known as the Easter of Horses, in Targoviste, Romania, March 8, 2025.
Easter of Horses is celebrated by the local Bulgarian community and symbolizes the start of agricultural work in the new year. (Photo by Cristian Cristel/Xinhua)
Neil Robertson celebrates with the trophy during the awarding ceremony for the Snooker World Grand Prix 2025 in Hong Kong, south China, March 9, 2025. (Xinhua/Lo Ping Fai)
Researchers and experts pose for photos near the one-eighth vacuum chamber and overall installation system, one of the key subsystems of the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT), in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, March 9, 2025.
China has hit another milestone in the development of its next-generation "artificial sun," with one of its key systems passing expert review and acceptance procedures on Sunday, achieving an internationally advanced development and operational capability standard.
The one-eighth vacuum chamber and overall installation system was developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP). It is one of the 19 key subsystems of the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT), a platform on which engineers develop and test the key components of fusion energy reactors. (Xinhua/Zhang Duan)
An aerial drone photo taken on March 8, 2025 shows the snow scenery in Gande County of Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Golog, northwest China's Qinghai Province. (Xinhua/Zhang Long)
A Long March-3B rocket carrying a test satellite for communication technology blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 10, 2025.
Launched at 1:17 a.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has entered the planned orbit, marking the success of the launch, according to the launch center. (Photo by Ma Wenbo/Xinhua)
