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Honor has set September 28 for the Magic9 series launch, previewing a moss-green flagship co-engineered with cinema-camera maker ARRI and an accessory telephoto system that pushes a phone's reach to 500mm. It is the clearest sign yet that China's phone wars are now fought over cameras, not chips.
China's annual services-trade fair opened at the renovated Shougang park in Beijing on September 9, with 1,830-plus exhibitors from 90 countries and a first-of-its-kind 'China Services' hall. The message from the capital: the next chapter of Chinese exports is AI, healthcare, finance and expertise — not just goods.
The romance drama 'Early Spring Sunshine' (早春晴朗) ended its run this week with a proposal, a record-breaking streak on Youku — and a response from China's Taiwan Affairs Office, after the show became a rare mainland hit in Taiwan. Its 'old-fashioned' formula is doing the explaining.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
From October 1, compliant childbirth in Shanghai will cost patients nothing out of pocket, with a 4,500-yuan prenatal allowance and full reimbursement for delivery. The same week, Wuhan sealed an underground assisted-reproduction lab and detained eight people — two edges of China's struggle to make having children affordable and safe.
Geng Hongwei, the science blogger whose misconduct exposés have toppled senior academics, has been hired as a specially appointed lecturer by Zhejiang Media University. The hire is being debated as either the professionalization of online accountability — or its domestication.
South Korea's Presidential National Education Commission is discussing marking hanja — Chinese characters — in elementary textbooks from 2028, the first such reconsideration in a decade, after examples went viral of students reading the word for 'genealogy' as a pork-trotter dish. Weibo watched with pride, amusement and a pinch of unease about China's own script education.
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