A video of 62-year-old Chinese actor Liu Jinshan being treated at a traditional medicine clinic has gone viral, sparking reflection on his three-decade career and the pressures of raising a young daughter late in life.
A short video of China's best-known basketball center cooking an egg-filled pancake has gone viral, landing just as he returns to the national team roster. It is a small window into how Chinese fans follow their stars off the court.
A Chinese team has run the world's first human trial of chemogenetic neuromodulation, pairing gene therapy with a small-molecule drug so doctors can dial nerve activity up or down. The results appeared in a major medical journal, with outside reviewers calling the adjustable dose the key advance.
China's ginkgo season peaks in early November, the latest and most vivid burst of autumn colour. The tree is a living fossil, a cultural symbol and a perennial candidate for national tree.
Lu Jing, once one of China's most recognized news anchors, left television at her peak in 1990 and later became a broadcasting teacher. Her marriage to an orthopedic surgeon and her father's medical legacy give the story its unusual shape.
Volvo's plug-in hybrid XC70 is now landing below 200,000 yuan at Beijing dealerships, with sales staff saying each sale loses more than 20,000 yuan. The discount narrows the gap between the XC70 and the petrol XC60 to a level that unsettles the brand's own lineup.
A 44-year age gap between a young wife and a celebrated Chinese oil painter has become a national talking point about marriage, money and care. The couple's public appearances turn a private arrangement into a debate about what older men, and younger women, owe each other.
Chinese CS2 team TYLOO were swept by TL at IEM Beijing, ending their home tournament, while Falcons fell to NAVI in the lower-bracket final. NAVI advanced to the playoffs after eliminating B8 and Falcons.
A viral joke about a clinic sign banning chatbot-diagnosed patients has exposed real friction between Chinese doctors and people who consult AI tools like Doubao before visiting a hospital.
Beijing opened its CBA season with eight straight wins, beating Ningbo 120-88, but guard Barry Brown Jr. says the team is far from a finished product. He credits practice and the belief of teammates and coaches for the run.
IEM Beijing's first group day ended with Chinese side TYLOO beaten by MOUZ and Falcons swept by NAVI, while Black Panther staged a reverse sweep over FaZe. The tournament's opening results set up a brutal bracket for the home crowd.
A gymnastics champion turned actress is now credited as chief producer of a period drama that led its CCTV-8 time slot in March 2026. Online, the conversation still circles old co-star rumors rather than the new job.
A Chinese geoscience professor argues that AI-drafted degree dissertations should be barred from external review, after reading several that felt fluent but hollow. His complaint points to a deeper problem: peer review has no reliable way to detect machine authorship.
Chinese streetwear label Jikaos Industrial has released a 10-item collaboration with Phantom Blade Zero, the kung-fu-punk action game, timed to its unlock. The tie-up shows how Chinese game studios now treat merch as part of a launch, not an afterthought.
Beijing's Zhiyuan Institute put five early-stage AI hardware ventures in front of investors at its first public roadshow, spanning chips, neuromorphic computing, robot deployment and physical-world modelling. The aim is to shorten the gap between lab results and paying customers.
China's railway operator and New Oriental's travel arm will launch a themed sleeper train from Beijing in December, named after the Ming dynasty explorer Xu Xiake. It is pitched at travelers who want slow, comfortable rail journeys rather than flights.
At the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference in Beijing, industry talk shifted from raw specifications to safety, as regulators make crash-testing a precondition for launch rather than a final checkpoint. The change reframes smart driving as a vehicle-road-cloud system problem, not a longer feature list.
At its 1024 Developer Festival in Beijing, iFlytek unveiled the Spark X2.6 model, a Token-as-a-Service platform and a new voice model, pitching AI capacity as everyday industrial infrastructure rather than a demo.
Shandong's highway service areas are winning over Chinese road-trippers who once dreaded them, drawing millions of visitors a year as domestic self-drive holidays boom. The upgrade turns a neglected roadside business into a template other provinces are watching.
Foreign visitors arriving under China's 240-hour visa-free transit are leaving with full suitcases and a craving for hotpot and street snacks. For many, one stopover becomes the preview of a second trip.
China drew 548.8 billion yuan in foreign investment in the first nine months of 2026, down 4.3% year on year, yet high-tech sectors pulled in 228.5 billion yuan, up 33.8%. September alone posted a 2.5% rise, hinting at a turnaround.
A growing number of Chinese-run science journals are moving their publishing from Western platforms like Elsevier and Springer Nature back to domestic ones. China's science association counts 24 such 'homecoming' titles, most of them in the past three years.
The 2026 China Open drew over 450,000 visitors and record revenue as Zheng Qinwen won the title, highlighting the rapid commercial growth of China's tennis season. The event's success reflects a broader boom in sports entertainment across the country.
China's Dongfeng is quietly pushing ammonia as an alternative fuel for engines, framing it less as a comeback than as insurance against a harsh market. The move comes as trade tensions with Europe over electric cars keep Chinese automakers guessing.
Official figures show China spent 3.93 trillion yuan on research and development in 2025, up 8.2 percent and roughly 3.4 times Germany's total. The country remains the world's second-biggest R&D spender after the United States.
In 1853, a commoner named Wang Ku'er slipped past the palace gates and peddled steamed buns inside the Forbidden City for months before anyone noticed. A rare archive from the Qing court's internal investigation bureau tells the story.
China's industry, police, environment and market regulators summoned more than 30 major automakers to demand tougher product testing and an end to misleading advertising. The meeting lands as the country's car industry battles a brutal price war and safety concerns.
A viral essay argues that China's old web of casual social ties has quietly dissolved, leaving people to invest deeply in a few relationships instead. Weddings, group chats and awkward banquet tables are the clearest evidence.
The executive producer and PR manager of Grounded 2 will fly to Beijing for Nuclear Fusion 2026, a two-day fan convention on October 24-25. They recorded a video greeting for Chinese players ahead of their booth appearances.
Hair salons across China are shutting at a record pace even as demand holds steady, with operators blaming high rents, rising wages and thin pricing power. Industry figures show far more closures than openings in early 2026.
China's central bank has cleared Visa's local entity to prepare a bank-card clearing business, ending years of waiting. The US giant joins a market long dominated by UnionPay, where margins are thin and habits are hard to change.
A tiny orange-and-black beetle is turning up in northern Chinese cities this autumn, and one science outlet answered readers' strangest questions about it. The short version: it is not food, and its body fluid can blister skin.
At the 35th Feitian Awards in Yantai, little-known stage actor Wang Renjun beat frontrunners to win Best Actor for a drama role. His unpolished acceptance speech about craft over celebrity became the night's most-discussed moment.
Long before China's studios went global, a small Beijing team spent two years and about two million yuan building an RTS set in the Three Kingdoms era. It became the first Chinese game to officially appear at E3 and shipped in more than 60 countries.
Tencent and Ubisoft will close The Division 2's Chinese server on December 14, 2026, after what the operator calls a change in business strategy. Top-ups and new registrations stopped on October 12.
Longtime CCTV faces like Kang Hui, Sa Beining and Dong Qing are appearing less on screen as younger presenters take over the country's flagship broadcasts, marking a generational handover at China's biggest broadcaster.
A viral post about a 57-square-meter Beijing flat that lost about 38 percent of its value since 2017 has rekindled a national conversation about property, salaries and what a home is really worth.
A Chinese tech blog explains why post-run stretching and recovery decide whether you keep running or quit. The advice is simple, cheap and aimed at beginners who gasp after two minutes.
Modern Chinese official stamps are round, but traditional personal seals are square — a shape that survived for centuries for reasons deeper than habit. The answer lies in how a carved block of stone marks a page.
Liu Yifei, one of China's best-known actresses, drew huge online attention at a Bobbi Brown event in Shanghai, where fan-shot photos triggered the usual mix of praise and scrutiny over her appearance.
