“Society is constantly changing, and so are people, but ‘change’ does not solely mean ‘progress.’” After leaving education at 16 to work in factories, Zhang Sai is turning factory life into literature and documenting the people and pressures of China’s vast factory workforce. ow.ly/UCXg50XztQQ

Created by Hainanese migrants in Southeast Asia, the brew returned with re-migrants in the 1950s. Now, a new generation is pushing it into the future.

Against all odds, Guinea’s $20 billion Simandou megaproject, including a 600-km railway, a new Atlantic port, multiple tunnels and bridges, and a twin set of mines, stunned the global mining world.

Chinese food became a popular American dinner because of the pioneering work of two women who, in the middle of the 20th century, set out to teach the flavors of home to their new country.

A social media influencer touring aquatic attractions nationwide is exposing the perilous problems he finds in water quality, staff training, and erroneous signage.

A contract dispute between an exclusive soccer academy and the family of a rising star has thrown a spotlight on China’s youth development system.

Through her research, the sociologist Xu Lingling has discovered how those from rural and lower-class backgrounds are at a disadvantage for getting ahead — because of how much more time it takes them to catch up.

A college junior in Shanghai used a “universal key” to shut down elevator ad screens to protest their intrusive noise, going viral online after netizens applauded the move.

AI software has made it possible to consistently analyze thousands of historical texts, allowing scientists to carefully map how people’s viewpoints changed between centuries and across regions.

An online job scam boasting flexible hours and high salaries has targeted fresh graduates, demanding thousands of yuan for training modules and jobs that fall far short of expectations.

Thousands of companies from around the world attended the event, where China pledged to expand world access to its market and showcased hundreds of new products and technologies.

Marathon organizers and runners across China face abrupt cancellations and new curbs, as officials rush to rein in a sport that expanded faster than it could be managed. Read more: ow.ly/zF6V50XlsYe

Since its release in March, Sultan’s Game has been taking Chinese players by storm. Yet amid the moral quandaries, chaotic evil choices, sex, and violence posed by the game, it is a microcosm of how traditional culture shapes the choices we make.

The court ordered the restaurant to cease use of Hepburn’s image, full name, issue a public apology, and pay 200,000 yuan ($27,600) in compensation.

As studios rush to feed China’s short-drama craze, web novel writers say their work is being taken, rewritten, and sold without consent or credit.

On China’s biggest stand-up comedy shows, 2025 has been a breakout year for women. But it’s more a story of economics, not equality.

As climate extremes grow across China, one farmer’s flooded fields outside Beijing show how quickly the country’s weather, and way of life, are being rewritten.

For two years, Liu Yujia has crossed China on foot and by bike, photographing the tiled towers, tinted-glass hotels, and industrial relics of a disappearing urban era, once often dismissed as “ugly.”

Guangzhou, the capital of China’s southern Guangdong province, has drafted a policy requiring dim sum restaurants to label dishes as made using “traditional” or “non-traditional” methods and set up a talent-training system to protect the region’s culinary craft.

From silk and porcelain to cotton and tea, Li Bozhong traces how centuries of exchange bound China to global markets long before modern globalization.

Across China’s short-video platforms, group livestreaming, or tuanbo, has become a nationwide obsession. The format has exploded in recent months, filling the gap left by China’s 2021 ban on idol survival shows. For many, it offers a second chance at stardom.

In her latest book, Professor He Guimei challenges the framework of “Chineseness” at its core, highlighting a need to frame it in terms of civilization, rather than nation, and to change how we talk about tradition when constructing ideas of the present. Read more: ow.ly/BjIc50Xakor

“Please help me recognize the last word my father left me.” “He’s wishing you a Happy New Year.” “The Worst Handwriting Group in History,” which began as a way to bond over poor penmanship, has recently expanded into a place to seek solace and help in deciphering notes left by deceased relatives.

Marathon star Zhang Shuihua promises to tread lightly after post-race comments about her hospital job spark a social media pile-on.

The lunches, supplied by catering company Green Express, were recalled after some schools had already served them, prompting outrage from parents and city-wide reform of school catering contracts.

China has eased a long-standing “payment dilemma” for overseas individuals purchasing onshore properties, simplifying cross-border investment and financing procedures.

I am a third-generation of the Third Front Movement. There’s a saying that captures the experience of families like ours: “First we devote our youth, then we devote our whole lives — in the end, even the futures of our children and grandchildren are tied to the cause.”

Sponge gourd soup, a staple in Chinese home cooking, has unexpectedly gone viral online — not for its taste, but as a metaphor for the way parents often dismiss their children’s feelings, as well as gaslighting in familial relationships more generally. Read more: ow.ly/bWv650X03Ns

A fireworks display, designed by artist Cai Guoqiang and commissioned by outdoor brand Arc’teryx, caused outrage over environmental concerns, prompting apologies and an official investigation.

With banquet bookings on the decline and budgets tight, some luxury hotels are selling discounted takeout on the street, betting visibility will bring customers back inside.

Inspired by oysters cementing themselves to ocean rocks and bridge pylons, scientists at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in eastern China’s Zhejiang province have developed what they call the world’s first “bone glue.”

Talking to an AI version of a late lost one is not so different from the photos and other mementoes people have always cherished.

In China’s booming immersive tourism industry, “non-playable characters” are thousands of young performers in costume, working marathon shifts of duels and dances to keep tourists entertained.

A couple in southern China’s Guangzhou has been ordered to vacate their rented room after having a child, with top rental platform Ziroom citing a breach of occupancy rules at the shared property that limit tenants to two adults between the ages of 18 and 40.

Empowered by legislation, a growing army of social media activists is waging war against smoking in public.

As cinema evolved from silent-era drama to a key front in China’s fight against Japanese aggression, filmmakers turned class struggle, social injustice, and war into stories that rallied a nation.

When East met West in the mid-1800s, no one could understand each other. After a concerted effort between working-class Chinese and early traders, a new language was born, traces of which live on to this day.

As China’s ultrashort TV series find fans in the U.S., bilingual screenwriters are in high demand in Hollywood — it’s just not the dream job they’d imagined.

“My family thinks I’m at work, just like they used to think I was in school.” With tens of thousands of arcades shuttered from decades of policy and changing lifestyles, Xu Shouzhong’s arcade is the last one left in Shenyang, a time capsule for the heady days of youth.

In tribute to her grandparents, artist Wu Wei explores in her work the anguish of loss and the joy of remembrance.

More than two decades after his 3-year-old son was abducted, a Chinese father has won a symbolic civil case against the trafficker sentenced to death, reigniting debate over victims’ rights.

Painkillers for a warlord’s migraines. Train tickets for a legendary statesman who never made it north. And a Labubu doll for the father of modern socialism.

Staff from one of the unlicensed facilities, discovered in May after a tip-off, fled when police arrived, leaving behind medical equipment, drugs, and an unconscious patient on an operating table.

With 16.7 million charging points, China now has the world’s largest electric vehicle charging network — about two chargers for every five EVs.

A decades-old mural of Chinese literary icon Lu Xun holding a cigarette has sparked online debate — and memes — after an anti-smoking activist claimed the image encourages smoking and should be replaced with a clenched fist.

Ten workers are dead and four remain missing after a section of the Jianzha Yellow River Bridge collapsed early Friday during construction on the Sichuan–Qinghai Railway, according to Qinghai’s emergency management authorities.

resh off the global success of ‘Black Myth: Wukong,’ Chinese game studio Game Science has announced its next title: Black Myth: Zhong Kui. The studio released a cinematic teaser on Wednesday but said the project is still in early development.

Amid competition from ultrashort dramas and streaming platforms, China’s broadcasting regulator will also ease restrictions on historical dramas and allow series to air without a one-year gap between new seasons.

China has nearly 30 million single mothers. Now, many are finding support by moving in together, splitting bills, sharing child care, and building households outside the traditional family model.

The four antiheroes of new animated film “Nobody” follow in the footsteps of the cast of “Journey to the West,” striking a chord with the country’s downtrodden workers.