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Electricity consumption by China's electric vehicle charging and internet data service sectors soared in July, highlighting robust demand from the country's fast-growing new energy vehicle and digital industries, official data showed on Friday.

ULAANBAATAR/HOHHOT — Deep in Mongolia's Gobi area, technicians from M-Grass Ecology and Environment (Group), a Chinese company specializing in grass seed technology, crouched on the sandy ground in Khanbogd county inspecting newly planted Haloxylon ammodendron seedlings. With meticulous care, they parted the gravel to confirm each root was firmly nestled in soil.

In this year's sweltering summer, China's technology landscape arrived at an inflection point. In the span of a single fortnight, two domestic tech companies made global headlines with stock market debuts that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

At the Film Forum in New York's Lower Manhattan, signs reading "Center Stage — Sold Out" were posted outside two weekend screenings of Stanley Kwan's 1991 film Center Stage. In some local film discussion groups, people were offering up to $80 for a resale ticket.

Marking a historic milestone in global energy infrastructure, the Belo Monte Ultra-High Voltage Direct Current Phase II project in Brazil has established a landmark paradigm for cross-regional clean energy transmission, sustainable infrastructure development, and international green power cooperation.

The brightly painted fishing floats that made Hunan province's Linxiang famous are no longer the only products rolling out of factories in this small city on the southern bank of the Yangtze River.

More than 180,000 overseas visitors to Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region used mobile payment services in the first half of 2026, up 45 percent year-on-year, local authorities announced Tuesday.