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Trending on WeiboOct 24, 2026

Kim Jong Un Visits Dandong, Laying a Wreath at China's Korean War Memorial

North Korea's leader crossed the newly opened Yalu River bridge to honor the Chinese volunteers who fought in Korea, in a visit heavy with symbolism for the alliance — and for the border city that connects the two countries.

Trending on WeiboOct 24, 2026

Evergrande's Liquidators Count the Cost: 13 Billion Hong Kong Dollars for Picassos Stored in a Supply Room

A new report from the failed developer's liquidators details how China Evergrande spent 13 billion Hong Kong dollars on 110 works by Picasso, Monet and Warhol — then stacked them in a company supply room. Nearly all have since been auctioned, at a loss of more than ten billion.

Trending on WeiboOct 24, 2026

China's Marriages Rose 10.8% in 2025, Ending a Decade-Long Slide

Newly published yearbook data show 6.76 million couples registered to marry in 2025, the first annual increase after nine years of decline — with Guangdong, the only province above 600,000 weddings, leading the rebound.

Trending on WeiboOct 24, 2026

Philippines Warns Towing a Grounded Warship Would Be an 'Act of War' — as a Chinese Carrier Sails Through Its Southern Waters

Manila's defense minister says China removing the grounded Sierra Madre from Second Thomas Shoal could constitute an 'act of war' under the US-Philippines treaty — a warning that landed in the same week a Chinese carrier group sailed through waters south of the Philippines.

Trending on WeiboOct 23, 2026

China's Politburo Reviews Its Seventh Inspection Round and Orders 'Real' Rectification

The Politburo met Friday to review the report on the seventh round of central inspections of the current Central Committee, endorsing the round's results while ordering 'real' rectification and sustained anti-corruption pressure. The readout is a discipline document — and the standing early-warning system for which ministries are in trouble.

Trending on WeiboOct 23, 2026

For the First Time in a Decade, China's Households Used Less Electricity

National data show residential electricity consumption fell 0.3% in the first nine months of 2026 — the first decline in that measure in ten years — even as total power demand grew on factories and data centers. Weather explains part of the drop; the rest is a picture of a recovery Chinese households are not feeling.

Trending on WeiboOct 23, 2026

China's State Council Tells Employers to Slow AI's Replacement of Workers

A new State Council directive asks companies to cushion workers before rolling out AI — advance notice, 'unemployment buffer periods', and a prudently slower pace in labour-intensive industries. It is Beijing's most explicit signal yet that AI-driven job loss is something to be managed, not just endured.

Trending on WeiboOct 23, 2026

China's Top Court Explains How Lay Judges Decided the Peking University Abuse Case

The Supreme People's Court has published the inner workings of China's most-watched abuse case, showing how lay judges established that an unmarried girlfriend counted as 'family' under the criminal law. It is a quiet but consequential signal about who the abuse statute protects.

Trending on WeiboOct 23, 2026

What Women Trapped in Scam Compounds Endure, According to an Undercover Investigator

As a new CCTV documentary revives attention on Southeast Asia's fraud compounds, an anthropologist who spent 60 hours interviewing escapees describes the particular pipeline that traps women — and why some are never redeemed even when they meet their sales targets.

Trending on WeiboOct 23, 2026

Spot Gold Dips Below $4,000 as Chinese Jewellers Cut Prices Overnight

Gold's slide below $4,000 an ounce on October 23 — its first time under that mark since July — rippled immediately into Chinese jewellery counters, where brands cut their per-gram prices by up to 30 yuan overnight, and investors asked whether to buy the dip.

Trending on WeiboOct 23, 2026

Tibet Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 16 as Rescuers Work Through the Night

The death toll from the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck Baqing County in Tibet's Nagqu prefecture has risen to 16, with 46 injured, as armed police and relief convoys push into remote herding communities on the plateau.

Trending on WeiboOct 22, 2026

Magnitude-7.0 Earthquake Strikes Remote County in Tibet, China's Strongest This Year

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Baqing County in Nagqu, Tibet late on October 22, China's strongest quake this year, prompting a level-II emergency response and an overnight rescue effort on the high-altitude plateau.

Trending on WeiboOct 22, 2026

People's Daily Blasts Taiwan's Rejection of a Mainland Star's Fan-Meeting Visa

Mainland actor Zhang Linghe applied to hold fan meetings in Taiwan and was refused — and People's Daily turned the rejection into a sweeping editorial about cross-strait culture, pairing it with Jay Chou's 'I am Chinese' moment.

Trending on WeiboOct 22, 2026

Jay Chou's 'I Am Chinese — What Is There to Discuss?' Now Has Beijing's Official Backing

A week after the singer's nod at being called a 'Chinese singer' in Shanghai turned into a cross-strait comment fight, Taiwan's pro-independence camp is attacking him for his identity — and Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office has answered on his behalf.

Trending on WeiboOct 21, 2026

China Puts Tunnel Boring Machines, Dredgers and Drones Under Export Controls

A Commerce Ministry notice issued October 19 extends China's export-control regime to tunnel boring machines, dredging vessels and high-end drones, effective November 18 — the same regime now squeezing Japan's supply of a rare earth used in cars, jets and chips.

Trending on WeiboOct 20, 2026

Undercover Investigator Exposes Underground Surrogacy Clinic in Guangzhou

An undercover investigation has revealed a hidden operating room and embryo laboratory serving a commercial surrogacy ring in a walled courtyard in Guangzhou, entered by police only after the investigator publicized his complaint — a glimpse of the gray market that persists around China's ban on paid surrogacy.

Trending on WeiboOct 20, 2026

Shenyang Bus Crash Report Faults the Driver Who Ran a Red Light — and the Officials Above Him

More than a year after a route-126 bus killed six people at a Shenyang intersection, the city has published an investigation that names the driver's violations, faults the bus company's safety management, and sends more than a dozen people to arrest or disciplinary proceedings.

Trending on WeiboOct 20, 2026

China's Economy Grew 4.6% Through the First Three Quarters, but the Recovery Is Splitting

State media distilled the year's economic report into six auspicious characters; a Caixin essay the same day argued the recovery is K-shaped, driven by factories and exports while consumption lags.

Trending on WeiboOct 19, 2026

Chinese Student Faces Expulsion After Draping Rising Sun Flag in Moscow University Class

A history student from Nanjing draped the Japanese Imperial Navy's rising sun flag in a Moscow State University classroom. Classmates stopped him, state media demanded zero tolerance, and the university is expected to expel and deport him.

Trending on WeiboOct 19, 2026

How 3,400 Chinese Firefighters Held a Mongolian Wildfire at the Border — and Why It Was Never Accidental

A vast grassland fire, reportedly started by executives of a Japanese telecom subsidiary on an illegal fishing trip, burned toward China for a week. A 330-km firebreak and 3,400 crews kept it out — but the fire's cause has become the story.

Trending on WeiboOct 19, 2026

After Seven Years in Prison, a Zhejiang Man Found His Bank Account Held 6.43 Yuan

A man jailed for fraud in Zhejiang came out to find over 500,000 yuan gone from his frozen account — some of it allegedly transferred to a police officer, who has admitted taking it. Police have opened a theft case.

Trending on WeiboOct 19, 2026

Former Deputy Head of China's Pension Reserve Fund Expelled for Graft

Wang Wenling, formerly the second-ranking official at the body that manages China's 3.3-trillion-yuan national pension reserve, has been expelled from the Communist Party and public office after investigators found he traded on his power over state-enterprise restructurings, listings and investments — and resisted the inquiry for years.

Trending on WeiboOct 18, 2026

A Hangzhou Courier Showed Up at a Pregnant Woman's Door After She Canceled an Order

After a Hangzhou woman seven months pregnant phoned to cancel a parcel she had been told couldn't be shipped, the courier arrived at her door, upset that the call would cost him a day's wages. She was diagnosed that night with threatened miscarriage, and the case has become a referendum on how China's delivery platforms split blame.

Trending on WeiboOct 18, 2026

China's Ministries Launch a 'Filial Piety' Shopping Season for a Silver Economy

On the eve of the Double Ninth Festival, China's planners announced a push to turn the ageing population into consumption: more travel, sports and anti-aging products for seniors, and a three-ministry 'Filial Piety and Respect for the Aged Shopping Season' launched on October 18. Weibo's bluntest reply cut to the divide underneath: which elderly can actually afford to spend.