Here are six stories from China this week that you may have missed...

Six taikonauts from two missions meet up in Tiangong

The three taikonauts aboard the Shenzhou-16 spaceship entered the China Space Station on Tuesday and met with the Shenzhou-15 crew members living and working there.

The entrance happened at 6:22 p.m. Beijing Time (1022 GMT) when the Shenzhou-16 crew opened the hatch and greeted the new arrivals.

The space get-together kicked off the second in-orbit crew rotation in the China Space Station. The six taikonauts will live together for about five days to complete the handover.

Quintuplet tiger cubs make debut in Chongqing

One-month-old quintuplet Bengal tiger cubs made their first public appearance at Chongqing Wildlife World park in southwestern China.

The five cubs, two males and three females, were born at the park on April 28. They were abandoned by their old and irascible mother and were placed in an incubator due to their weak physical condition.

Sunday's outing was the first time they've left the incubator. After exploring the surroundings with curiosity, they laid on the grass and enjoyed the sun.

176-qubit quantum computing platform goes online

A 176-qubit quantum computing platform named Zuchongzhi went online for global users Wednesday night, which is expected to push forward the development of quantum computing hardware and its ecosystem.

Zhu Xiaobo, chief engineer of the project and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, said that the research team improved the 66-qubit chip of Zuchonghi-2 by adding control interfaces of 110 coupled qubits, allowing users to manipulate 176 quantum bits.

Zuchongzhi 2 is a 66-qubit programmable quantum computing system made in 2021, which can perform large-scale random quantum circuits sampling about 10 million times faster than the fastest supercomputer at that time. 

China's home-made C919 jetliner enters regular service

China's C919 commercial aircraft made its maiden voyage carrying 128 passengers from Shanghai to Beijing and has now entered regular service.

The C919 is China's first domestically made passenger jet and entered regular service with China Eastern Airlines on Monday, after its inaugural commercial flight on the previous day.

The plane, with a registration number of B-919A, finished two flights on Monday between east China's Shanghai Municipality and Chengdu City, the capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province.

It has been scheduled to fly the same route on Tuesdays, according to flight-booking websites.

$100m allocated to repair water conservancy projects

China has earmarked 728 million yuan (about $103 million) to support some local governments in repairing water conservancy facilities and strengthening their readiness for the flood season, the Ministry of Finance said Monday.

Of the total, 500 million yuan ($70.792 million) will be used to repair water conservancy projects damaged by floods, and the remaining 228 million yuan ($32 million) will be used to repair the damage caused by termites, the ministry said in a brief circular.

Twenty-eight provincial-level regions including Hubei and Zhejiang, as well as Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, are recipients of the relief funds. 

Rare all-white panda spotted on camera in Sichuan

The world's only known all-white panda has been captured on infrared cameras in the Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan Province, the reserve's management authorities said on Saturday.

At the end of February, images of the white panda were captured by an infrared camera about 2,300 meters above sea level in the wild with a black-and-white mother panda and a baby panda, the authorities said.

The nature reserve also captured images of the white panda playing with other pandas.

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