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Photo: Screenshot from media reports A zoo in Central China's Henan Province has introduced hotel rooms featuring floor-to-ceiling windows that allow guests an up-close view of tigers, sparking public concerns over safety. Located in Qinyang, Henan Province, the Hesheng Forest Zoo is offering 30 “tiger-view rooms,” with these rooms situated within the tiger observation area, Beijing News reported.

Photo: Screenshot from media reports An elderly couple from Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, discovered an unusual piece of "scrap iron" while collecting recyclables. After handing it over to a local police station, it was preliminarily identified as a bronze musical instrument known as the Gou Diao from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770–221 BC), The Paper reported.

Photo: Screenshot from media reports As Beijing entered its peak willow and poplar catkin season, a capybara at the Beijing Wildlife Park was spotted calmly nibbling on the floating fluff – almost like little fluff cleaner helping people clean up the seasonal fuzz. A video posted by a netizen shows Beijing Wildlife Park, surrounded by woods, covered in floating poplar and willow catkins.

Che spends his spare time fabricating components by hand. Photo: Screenshot from media reports Would you believe that the core of an aircraft's power—a turbojet engine—could be made by hand from scratch? And would you believe that this feat was accomplished by a 14-year-old middle school student who taught himself calculus? The 14-year-old, Che Jingang, has harbored a dream of spaceflight since he was very young.

Space mission The Shenzhou-21 crew aboard China's orbiting space station completes their mission's third series of extravehicular activities on April 17, 2026. The trio of astronauts - Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang - worked for roughly 5.5 hours and completed their tasks at 1:36 am (Beijing Time), assisted by the space station's robotic arm and a team on Earth, Xinhua reported. Photo: cnsphoto

Robot festival Students interact with hexapod robots at the first campus science and technology festival of a primary school in Hohhot, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on April 17, 2026. Photo: VCG

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and Vietnamese President To Lam, departs Beijing by high-speed train for Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on April 16, 2026. Photo: Xinhua During his visit to China, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President of Vietnam To Lam twice chose to travel on China's "Fuxing" bullet train, spending a total of nearly 12 hours on board.

Illustration: Chen Xia/GT An unprecedented delegation of roughly 30 NATO ambassadors recently visited South Korea and Japan.

Zephyrine, a Chinese student studying in the UK, holding an English textbook used in China, captures a photo that brings the textbook illustration of Big Ben and the real Big Ben into the same frame on April 7, 2026.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun The Chinese foreign and defense ministries on Friday slammed New Zealand's move to send a military aircraft near Chinese airspace for repeated close-in reconnaissance and harassment recently.