Amateur city teams from across Jiangsu province played to packed local crowds as the quarter-finals of the 2026 Jiangsu City Football League wrapped up, sending four clubs to the semi-finals.
On the first days of China's week-long National Day holiday, travelers are skipping packed landmarks and foreign trips for small-town food, hotel lie-ins and unhurried local walks. The shift is reshaping how the country's tourism industry reads its customers.
A family trip to Shandong turned into a lesson in hospitality, as free tire repairs, unsolicited steamed buns and waiters who talk customers out of over-ordering won hearts online.
From mega-city marathons with lottery entry to trail races in the mountains, tens of millions of Chinese runners have turned weekend racing into a national pastime.
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