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The No. 1 phrase on Weibo this weekend marks 90 years since the Red Army's Long March ended. A People's Daily music video drew a quarter of a million reposts — a look at why a two-year retreat of the 1930s still commands China's media machine on schedule.
Xiaoyue, half of a Chinese online couple famous for the 52-centimetre difference between her 2.2-metre frame and her boyfriend's 1.68 metres, has died at 26 after a tumour condition her partner believed was operable. She leaves a child not yet one year old.
In Hangzhou's central districts, dogs may be walked only between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., with fines of 200 to 1,000 yuan for daytime outings, off-leash dogs or pets in public places. The striking part of the response: many readers without dogs are cheering.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A step-by-step explainer of what it costs to draw a 10,000-yuan monthly pension has become one of Weibo's most-argued posts of the week, crystallising doubts about whether a system covering a billion people can carry the workers of the future — just as the government promises to hunt down those still uninsured.
A second-year student at a vocational college in Guangdong says he earned seven million yuan in three years by editing highlights of other people's livestreams and attaching product links. The claim is unverified — and the argument it set off is about the shape of China's creator economy.
A Houthi strike on Riyadh's main international airport killed 12 people of eight nationalities and wounded 309, closing part of the facility. It was the third attack on the hub in a week, and China's embassy has told its citizens in Saudi Arabia to cut non-essential travel.
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