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Zhong Nanshan, the physician who became China's face of public health through SARS and COVID, turned 90 on October 20, days after jogging out to open a basketball tournament. Beneath the viral clips lies the substance: a 2004 heart attack, two decades of hypertension — and a three-sessions-a-week routine physicians endorse.
Terence Tao and Deng Yu — Fields Medalists a generation apart — devoted a podcast episode to the question shaking their field after an AI company published 700 machine-generated proofs: mathematics is entering an age of proof abundance, and the bottleneck is no longer proving but understanding.
The 90th anniversary of the Long March has filled China's screens and trend lists: a CCTV documentary series airing nightly, state essays topping both Weibo and Baidu, a new film about Edgar Snow, and a metaphor that still frames how the country asks to be understood.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A survey of China's 39 elite universities found nearly all now take in more new graduate students than undergraduates — the latest turn in a decade-long expansion that is changing what a degree means and who pays for it.
The billionaire chairwoman of Gree Electric opened her technical school's first term with a lesson in campus discipline — and reignited a debate about whether paternalistic company culture belongs in the classroom.
State media distilled the year's economic report into six auspicious characters; a Caixin essay the same day argued the recovery is K-shaped, driven by factories and exports while consumption lags.
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