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Zhong Xue Gao, the 'Hermès of ice cream' whose 66-yuan ECCO-branded bar once made it a byword for premium excess, has relaunched on JD after bankruptcy — and shoppers are finding the same brand at single-digit prices, a small case study in what happens to China's premium boom when the mood changes.
Lijian-2, the modular rocket built by CAS Space, completed its second flight on November 3 by deploying 18 satellites for China's Qianfan broadband constellation — the first constellation-scale launch for a rocket designed to be assembled like building blocks, with its makers citing costs benchmarked against SpaceX.
The first mass-market wave of Chinese EVs is crossing the eight-year battery warranty line, and replacement packs that cost more than the cars are worth are forcing owners — and now regulators — to confront what an aging electric fleet is actually worth.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Two adopted women in Shenzhen discovered they were twin sisters after one's relative spotted the other's face on a short-video feed — and the informality of Chinese adoption channels means the internet sometimes does the matching no database can.
Doctors in Fuzhou diagnosed a 25-year-old online seller with 'digital dementia' — not Alzheimer's but a memory gone idle from outsourcing itself to the screen — after her daily phone use passed ten hours and her forgetfulness began to frighten her.
China's 21-year-old air-rifle star won the world title in Doha, the one major medal he lacked, and in the same stroke secured a Chinese quota place for the Los Angeles Olympics four years after he first stood on an Olympic podium at sixteen.
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