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A renter's much-shared essay about wanting a home she knows is a bad buy — every financial argument absorbed, every counter-argument ready, until the landlord texts — has become the face of the debate China's renters keep having with themselves as property prices fall.
Chinese teams have published the world's first human trial of a drug that kills cancer cells by inducing ferroptosis — letting iron 'rust' them from the inside. Eighteen patients, a disease-control rate of 84.2 percent, and a phase II trial with radiotherapy now underway.
Chen Jin'ao, 75, became a national attraction after a photo of the seven bottle gourds on his balcony spread online. On October 10 he hung a handwritten sign ending all interactions with visitors: 'From today, no more. Please understand. I love you.'
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A court in Henan on Saturday sentenced Zhou Xianwang — mayor of Wuhan when the city became the first epicentre of COVID — to 14 years in prison for taking 60.5 million yuan in bribes across a 22-year career.
Zheng Qinwen beat Belgium's Elise Mertens 7-5, 6-2 in Beijing on Saturday night to reach the China Open final — a round no Chinese player, man or woman, had ever reached at the tournament. On Sunday she plays Russia's Mirra Andreeva for the title.
A woman in Zhejiang paid 38 yuan at a roadside stall for a durian that contained no durian: a gluey artificial paste and a chunk of potato where the fruit should have been. The case has become the week's warning about buying expensive fruit you cannot watch being opened.
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026