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Wanwan, once one of China's most loved style icons and later one of its most piled-on, has found an unlikely second act: a Taobao clothing store that cleared 10 million yuan in its first month, and a national conversation about whether the internet lets anyone come back.
Ninety years after the Red Army's year-long trek from Ruijin to Yan'an founded the legend of the Long March, a Fuxing bullet train now covers the route in under 12 hours — over seven existing lines, with no new track laid.
Zhong Xue Gao, the premium brand whose ¥66 ice cream bars set off China's 'ice cream assassin' panic, returns this week at a Tianjin trade expo under new owners from the budget frozen-food business — two years after the label collapsed amid debt and ridicule.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A man identified in Chinese media as Wei Shang, a diving instructor, was intercepted at an Indonesian airport trying to leave the country as the Raja Ampat regency filed formal evidence over the filmed shooting of a critically endangered hawksbill turtle. He denies being the man in the video.
China's health commission says the population stands at 1.405 billion and births run 'around 8 million' — but the latest full-year figure was 7.92 million, and the gap between the official framing and the reality is what Chinese social media is arguing about.
A question atop Zhihu — why can China achieve 'vegetable freedom' when Europe cannot? — drew answers ranging from agronomy to national pride. The short version: Europe's climate fights its leafy greens, and China's entire food culture is built around them.
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