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A Chinese research consortium says it has found a world-scale field of polymetallic sulphides beneath the West Pacific, with gold grades of up to 15.4 grams per tonne — richer than most mines on land, and a signal of where China's resource ambitions and its deep-sea mining industry are heading.

Two months after a record antitrust fine, a custom-tour customer found her Manzhouli hotel priced at 1,520 yuan a night while the walk-in rate was 500 — reviving the debate over 'big-data price killing' that regulators promised to end.

China's state broadcaster CMG will hold the first World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition on October 29, sending robots up the sacred mountain's real stone path — about 3.8 kilometers and more than 3,100 steps from Red Gate to Midway Gate to Heaven. Organizers are billing the UNESCO-listed peak as an 'ultimate testing ground' for embodied AI: uneven stairs, mist and crowds that no lab can replicate.