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A video interview with an 82-year-old Shanghai woman who never married, had no children, and planned her old age around savings, housing and friends has become one of the week's most-shared clips — landing in the middle of China's argument over marriage, fertility and who cares for the old.
A Xinjiang family says their mother, nearly 70, spent 226,800 yuan over two years on paywalled micro-dramas — 4,887 separate orders across 365 drama storefronts — putting a face on the small-charge mechanics behind China's short-drama boom and its fastest-growing group of payers.
Noodle shops across China are swapping the characters on their signs from Lanzhou to Qinghai, as the province whose migrants built the country's lamian empire moves to claim the brand — 31,000 shops in more than 300 cities, and a question about who owns a noodle's name.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
After a tester's video showed three nearly new Zunjie V800s snapping their brake pedals in emergency-stop tests, the Huawei-branded luxury marque has issued its first statement: no customer car has ever broken the part — but the design will be improved and delivered owners offered a free upgrade.
With 100 days to go to the 2027 Winter Universiade, the northeastern city of Changchun unveiled a torch named Jixiang whose every millimetre is a civic emblem: the city flower, the film studio, the car plant, the local altitude — and a ginseng petal in the flame.
A meme called 'Big Water Theory' (大水理论) is sweeping Weibo and Douyin: carry an oversized bottle of plain bottled water instead of ordering milk tea or coffee. Behind the absurdist swagger sits a real shift — young consumers pricing health and thrift against the drink economy that marketed to them for a decade.
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