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A Henan newspaper investigation found actors in Zhengzhou — China's 'vertical Hengdian', home to 40,000 short-drama workers and four in ten of the country's releases — pay for their own wardrobes, nearly thirty costumes per drama. The detail lands as AI-generated dramas flood the market.
A CCTV investigation, triggered by a data alert from China's medical-insurance system, exposed the 'recycled drug' black chain: subsidized medicines resold for cash, their origins laundered with forged receipts. Since 2025 more than 62,000 institutions have been investigated and 3 billion yuan involved — with spoiled, fake-cold-chain semaglutide the starkest case.
Chengdu's traffic authority has turned an AI screening system on 'turtle-speed' drivers — cars crawling far below the flow, often because the driver is on the phone — after footage showed one sedan overtaken 18 times in 200 meters. Offenders face 100-yuan fines and three license points.
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ByteDance has merged Feishu, its enterprise office suite, into Doubao, its consumer AI assistant — founder Zhang Yiming's 'biggest bet' that the AI chatbot, not the inbox, becomes the entry point to work in China.
A Chinese court has upheld a death sentence for a man who beat his wife to death, ruling that the couple's children could not formally forgive him on her behalf — a precedent-carrying judgment on domestic violence and the sentencing custom of the 'letter of understanding'.
Singer Huang Zihongfan's studio permanently terminated its partnership with organizer Shenghuan Entertainment after its hosts told fans 'buy it or get lost' in a ticket-selling livestream and bragged of reselling his autographs — a rare public severance in China's fan-event economy.
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