News Guangdong 13th August 2026 Hengqin schools host 63 health sessions benefiting 10,000-plus A health team in the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin delivered 63 health education sessions to more than 10,000 teachers and students during the 2025–2026 academic year. The team is known as the school's "health vice principals" of the cooperation zone. It, in partnership with medical experts, provided 50 targeted sessions on infectious disease prevention, ran 3

People's Daily 5th August 2026 From robot workers to AI glasses. Exploring everyday AI in Hangzhou In Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, artificial intelligence is stepping off the screen. It is taking physical form in robots that cook, serve customers, inspect equipment and assist people in their daily lives. Spanish filmmaker Larry Levene encountered that shift at the Hangzhou Embodied Intelligence Exhibition Centre, which gathers robots designed for real-world setti

Global Times 5th August 2026 China-developed brain-computer interface robot helps patients walk again Country’s BCI sector advancing toward industrialization at fast pace By Ma Jingjing Wanting to move but being unable to is the plight of patients with lower-limb mobility impairments. Today, a homegrown cutting-edge technology is working to solve this problem. Recently, at the high-end equipment exhibition area of the Anhui Innovation Pavilion in Hefei, capital of East China'

Global Times 31st July 2026 China's implantable BCI tech helps quadriplegic patients return to work with latency below 50 ms By Liu Yang and Zhang Weilan China's implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) technology has made substantial progress in clinical trials, enabling multiple patients with high-level quadriplegia to return to work, with command latency below 50 milliseconds, the Global Times learned from Shanghai-based medical technology firm StairMed on Thursday. This

South China Morning Post 31st July 2026 Paralysis inspires Chinese man to build mind-controlled wheelchair that wins top prize A man from southeastern China transformed his experience with paralysis into a source of inspiration, creating a mind-controlled wheelchair prototype in just 48 hours during a technology competition. Wang Ning, 33, and his wife from Shenzhen recently took part in a Shanghai-based Hackathon hosted by RedNote, where they earned first prize in the hardwa

Xinhua 31st July 2026 2 mln elderly people receive caregiving service subsidies in China in 2026 About 2 million elderly people with disabilities in China have received government subsidies to purchase caregiving services so far this year, the country's Ministry of Civil Affairs announced Thursday at a press conference. The subsidies are available to older individuals who have been assessed as having moderate or more severe disabilities, based on criteria that evaluate their

China Daily 22nd July 2026 Novel device to help deaf patients hear effectively Chinese researchers have developed the world's first bionic neuromorphic auditory nerve interface, a groundbreaking electronic device that bypasses damaged natural auditory nerves to deliver processed sound signals straight to the neural pathways. The technology, created by a team at Nankai University in Tianjin, represents significant research advances in the field of neuromorphic auditory restora

China Daily 17th July 2026 China to launch third national disability survey in 2027 China will launch its third national sample survey of people with disabilities in September 2027 to obtain more accurate data for policymaking on a population currently estimated at 85 million, officials said on Thursday. The survey will cover about 2.8 million people, or two in every 1,000 people, said Cheng Kai, head of the survey's leading group and chairman of the China Disabled Persons' F

Asianet News 1st July 2026 Lost After Boarding Wrong Train, Deaf Man in China Reunites With Family After 35 Years By Shweta Kumari SYNOPSIS A deaf and non-speaking man from central China has been reunited with his biological family after being separated from them for 35 years, following an unexpected train journey that changed his life. A playful childhood adventure turned into a heartbreaking separation that lasted more than three decades before a deaf and non-speaking ma

Chinese University of Hong Kong 22nd June 2026 CUHK reveals a potential treatment target for glaucoma that can restore 70% of lost vision in animal models. A pioneering breakthrough in neuroprotection therapy The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) has identified the growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor (GHRHR) as a new potential therapeutic target for glaucoma, which could eventually lead to a breakthrough in neuroprotection treatm

Xinhua 12th June 2026 China Focus. China promotes "tech for good" to safeguard human rights At the 2026 Forum on Global Human Rights Governance, Jaber Alsalaj picked up the English and Arabic copies of the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2026-2030). His sights were fixed on a chapter: creating a better digital and intelligent life. This keen interest was far from a sudden impulse. Days before the forum, Alsalaj, senior advisor with the Independent Permanent Human

Xinhua 10th June 2026 Chinese researchers treat rare disease via new RNA editing technology Editor: huaxia A Chinese research team has achieved a breakthrough with its newly developed RNA editing technology, named LEAPER, in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a severe and rare hereditary disease. Both details of this technology and its clinical application were published on Wednesday in the journal Cell. https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202606/09/WS6a2768c

People's Daily online 11th June 2026 Inheritor in SW China's Yunnan breathes new life into Yi embroidery through fashion, innovation Yi embroidery from Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, is recognized as a national-level intangible cultural heritage. Inspired by everyday life, artisans transform familiar objects into intricate patterns embroidered onto garments. https://en.people.cn/n3/2026/0611/c98649-20466367.html

China Daily 10th June 2026 New tech surgery aids recovery of vision A blind woman in China has recovered partial vision after receiving a brain-computer interface surgery in Changsha, Hunan province, bringing new hope to patients suffering from degenerative retinal diseases. Chen, 61, was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 40, a condition that eventually left her completely blind in both eyes. On April 23, she was selected for a clinical trial and underwent an

Xinhua 1st June 2026 China makes substantial progress in improving accessibility for children with disabilities. UNICEF representative China has made substantial progress in improving accessibility for children with disabilities, said Amakobe Sande, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Representative to China. Sande made the remarks ahead of International Children's Day, noting that China's law on building a barrier-free living environment marks an important step forwa

Xinhua 1st June 2026 AI-driven innovation opens new possibilities for smart living in China At the World Intelligence Expo 2026 in north China's Tianjin Municipality, a smart mirror provides an instant snapshot of a person's health status, a robotic arm deftly prepares a savory Chinese crepe, and a robot plays Go and tells stories to children, as what once seemed like science fiction increasingly becomes part of everyday life in China. Concluding on Sunday, the four-day expo

China Daily 1st June 2026 UNICEF campaign calls for inclusion of children with disabilities By Yao Yuxin UNICEF China launched a nationwide campaign on Friday to draw attention to the barriers faced by children with disabilities and promote their greater inclusion in schools, health centers and communities. The campaign, Childhood, Without Barriers, was launched in partnership with the China Commission for Promotion of Publicity for the Undertakings of Chinese Disabled Person

People's Daily 28th May 2026 Technology opens new doors to accessible living Recent advancements in technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), brain-computer interfaces and bionic engineering are offering renewed hope and expanding possibilities for people living with disabilities. China's 2025 statistical bulletin on the development of the cause of people with disabilities reported that 1.487 million people with disabilities received basic assistive devices last year. F

State Council People’s Republic of China 29th May 2026 China to launch 3rd national sample survey on disabled population China will in June launch its third national sample survey on people with disabilities, which is set to run through December 2028, according to a statement released by the General Office of the State Council on Thursday. The third survey comes 20 years after the second one, conducted in 2006, and nearly four decades after the first one was carried out back

Xinhua 17th May 2026 Feature. When researchers study challenges they live with Editor: huaxia A young researcher sitting in a wheelchair looked out at the audience in a Beijing conference hall and described a future in which blind people can move through crowded streets with devices capable of sensing danger before it arrives. "A guide device should do more than detect obstacles," he said. "It should work almost like a second pair of eyes." Around the room, heads nodded in r