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National Bureau of Statistics data show Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou new-home prices ticking up in August while most of the country keeps sliding — a 0.1 percent rise that Chinese social media greets with open disbelief.
Beijing and other cities are opening technician classes reserved for university graduates as degrees lose their hiring power. The trend has a name — hui lu, 'back to the furnace' — and a case study: a sports coach who left the pitch to learn robotic arms.
WeChat's built-in AI assistant Xiaowei appears to draw on users' chats and Moments posts, and offers no way to disable it — only a buried 'Memory and Privacy' settings page. The discovery is now trending on Weibo and Baidu.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Chinese platforms including ByteDance's Doubao have switched off the AI characters that let users chat with recreations of dead relatives, as new rules on humanlike AI take effect. For the people who used them, it meant saying goodbye to a parent or grandparent a second time.
Tianjin's market regulator has published a series of typical cases in which scammers used free eggs and free 'high-tech' health-device trials to reel in elderly customers, then moved them into private livestream rooms where ordinary products were sold as miracle cures. The disclosure is a window into the scripts used to separate China's aging consumers from their savings — and the enforcement tools being tried against them.
The period drama Lan Xiang Ru Gu crossed a heat index of 29,000 within four days on Tencent Video, but China's loudest TV argument this week is not about the official leading couple. It is about three seconds of screen time between Liu Xueyi and guest star Zheng He Huizi — proof, fans say, that on-screen chemistry is metaphysics, not marketing.
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