12+ hour, 41+ min ago   (123+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. Retired high jumper Zhang Guowei, who now funds his own comeback through a 70-million-follower influencer career, waded into China's state-versus-self-funded sports debate this week with a…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (471+ words) A 20-something man in Changsha who failed China's civil-service exam four times over two years has spent 22,000 yuan — about $3,000 — traveling alone through six countries and 17 cities, a journey financed, in his mother's telling, by her own labor: "I'll carry the…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (127+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. The restaurant's response, relayed by the account, was an ingredient list: oversized wontons made with the tenderest parts of Shanghai greens, black-hoof local pork, hand-rendered lard,…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (231+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. A fire aboard a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier under repair at a state-run Qingdao shipyard killed all 25 people listed as missing, and President Xi Jinping has ordered…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (180+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. China's women exited the Basketball World Cup 61-90 against a French side ranked above even the United States, ending Han Xu's double-double streak — a quarterfinal defeat that…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (273+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. The Olympic hurdler ended an 11-year retirement-placement dispute on Wednesday, announcing a September 1 buyout worth 494,000 yuan and donating his entire state salary of 982,935 yuan — untouched since…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (492+ words) Trending on Weibo Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. A Parents' Chat, 5,000 Yuan of Cosmetics and an Inquiry: Teacher's Day's Gift Problem Returns A parents' committee at a prestigious Taiyuan middle school…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (115+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. Two weeks after China's housing ministries rewrote the country's sales rules, land auctions in Xiamen, Lishui and Guangzhou already require finished-home sales — the clearest sign yet…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (172+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. Zheng Qinwen's qualifying-to-quarter-finals US Open run ended 6-3, 1-6, 4-6 against Elena Rybakina — who leaves New York as the new world No. 1 — yet the Chinese star's fortnight, from rank…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (124+ words) Stay updated with the latest news and trends. Categories, quick links and the newsletter. State media carried the news on Wednesday morning as the clearest physical evidence yet that Denisovans ranged across eastern Asia — the first time their presence in…...