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Wushan County residents in Chongqing, China can now easily enter and exit neighborhoods that used to require an hour of navigating steep slopes and tight roads. The Wushan Goddess Escalator finally opened its doors on February 17, 2026, just in the midst of Chinese New Year festivities.
Gushi Cliff Coffee is located on a cliffside overlooking the surf pounding against the shore of Fuzhou, Fujian, in southern China. Crowds of people sit on small little platforms embedded straight into the side of the cliff, 70 meters above the thundering surf, with a view out over the water to the Taiwan Strait, where the islands of Matsu appear as a distant collection of small little lights in the night sky.
Unitree Robotics returned to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, this time with a performance that broke new ground for humanoid machines in territory traditionally reserved for human athletes. For the third year in a row, the Hangzhou-based company was an official partner, this time bringing a slew of its top-of-the-line G1 humanoid robots to center stage in a display that somehow managed to marry ancient Chinese martial arts with the precision engineering found in a modern sports car.
The XPENG IRON humanoid robot made its first public appearance, but things didn’t go as planned. The sleek black machine tipped over during a presentation in a packed retail mall in Shenzhen. Fortunately, no one was injured, but the robot was a bit of a mess, and staff workers had to come and carry it away after it failed to stand up on its own.
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Every winter, Harbin, China really does transform into a magical winter wonderland, and for good reason, with residents as well as tourists alike counting down the hours till they can finally catch a glimpse of the city’s iconic giant snowman. This year, the snowman finally came to life on Dec 15th 2025, right in time for Christmas, and it stands a whopping 19 meters tall, 14 meters long, and 11 meters wide, all constructed from a staggering 3500 cubic meters of snow.
Hangzhou, home to a stunning 12 million people who are continuously speeding around town on motorcycles and in cars, has had one major issue: getting traffic to flow smoothly at crossings. However, a new high-tech traffic officer has recently appeared at the intersection of Binsheng Road and Changhe Road in the Binjiang area, and it has sparked much discussion among locals. They’ve named it Hangxing No. 1, and it’s a genuine oddity: a 1.8m-high traffic robot with arms sticking out at all directions.
Robots that look and move like us are proving their worth on city streets, or at least in Shanghai. AgiBot’s A2 recently made history by walking 65-miles without stopping. This Guinness World Records-certified event took place over three days in November 2025.
Last month, on the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu high-speed railway line, something amazing happened…a silver bullet train zoomed by at 281 mph. That single run on October 21 means that the CR450 is now the fastest conventional wheeled train ever tested. Engineers measured one prototype at 453 km/h, as well as two trains passing each other at 896 km/h.
A cluster of servers can now be seen chugging away beneath the waves off the coast of Shanghai, where the East China Sea blends into the distance. This is officially the world’s first underwater data center (UDC) capable of running almost entirely on wind power. China managed to pull off this engineering achievement by spending just $226 million, demonstrating their commitment to combining renewable energy with large amounts of computational power.
