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NPR's report on America's mahjong boom found the supply chain running through a two-story farmhouse in Taixing, Jiangsu, where workers inspect every tile by hand because Amazon sellers can charge ten times the factory cost.
The Hurun Rich List published on Tuesday put ByteDance's founder at 670 billion yuan, a record for a Chinese tycoon, and DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng in the top ten for the first time — a list reshaped almost entirely by AI.
A bride in Daqing served three tables of delivery food — milk tea, fried chicken, malatang — at her own wedding banquet, at the same 1,000-yuan-per-table standard as the traditional feast, and the country discussed whether a banquet is a meal or a ritual.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
China has spent more than 50 billion yuan over eight years building replica historic streets, and many are now cold and half-empty. CCTV's Focus Interview profiled the most instructive failure: a 2.4-billion-yuan 'ancient town' in Zhangjiajie that has lost 1.08 billion yuan in four years.
Chinese data centres are selling AI computation to overseas customers by the token, at a rate of more than 10 billion a day in one Shantou pilot. The trade has an official name — tokens going to sea — and no customs office can weigh it.
China's wind and solar capacity has passed 2 billion kilowatts — about half the world's total — after 170 GW of new installs in nine months. On Weibo, the response was not celebration but arithmetic: how much electricity the fleet actually delivers, and the evening peak it cannot yet cover.
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