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A mechanical-engineering junior in a Suzhou dorm says his AI-made comic dramas have earned over 3 million yuan, while in Hengdian, a short-drama actress who once worked ten thousand-yuan months now sells hand-shaken lemon tea to pay rent because the filming days have dried up. The same boom is producing both.
China's favorite nut has quietly become a luxury item: wholesale prices are up 27.5% since January, member stores are limiting purchases, and scalpers are reselling Sam's Club pistachios at a markup. The story is a lesson in how Chinese demand reshapes a global supply chain — and how a nut named 'happy fruit' became the year's gloomiest snack.
Answering a question about what dying people think about, the writer Liu Xuan posted that the answer is always one's mother — then described her own family's fourteen years of bedside care for unresponsive elders, and the argument with her own mother about whether having a child is the only pension that counts.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Gen.G beat iG 3-0 in the League of Legends Worlds semifinal, ending the Chinese team's run from the bottom of the bracket to the last four. Midlaner Chovy will play his first Worlds final; the LPL's remaining hopes now rest with BLG.
China's weather service has issued a yellow alert for heavy snow across eight provinces, with the heaviest falls in Liaoning and Hebei. The cold snap arrives on Lidong, the traditional start of winter — and the temperature contrast between the snowy north and the still-shirt-sleeved south is a running national joke.
Ahead of the APEC summit on November 18 and 19, Shenzhen has asked drivers to leave their cars at home — and more than 1.5 million of them have voluntarily registered to do so. It is the traffic half of a hosting effort that has already dressed the city in flowers.
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