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Forecasters say rain and snow will sweep the capital around November 7 — the day of Lidong, the solar calendar's official start of winter. Weibo is delighted at the timing, and grateful for a forecast from an official system after Apple's app told half of China it would hit minus 32.
The 2027 QS Asia University Rankings put Peking second and Tsinghua third, the mainland's strongest showing since 2023. The reaction on Weibo turned the chart into an argument about studying in Japan.
The Shanghai tech index jumped more than 10 percent on November 4 as state liquidity, a chip buyback, and relief after a month of AI-bubble nerves sent turnover above 2 trillion yuan for the first time in 25 sessions.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Geely's Galaxy Xingyao 6 E-fuel launched at 76,800 yuan and can burn methanol, petrol, or run on battery — a third lane in China's car market after two decades of methanol research.
Several Nanjing high schools have pushed morning arrival to 7:10 or 7:20 after parents complained about 15-hour campus days, a small schedule shift that has opened the national argument about how hard Chinese teenagers study.
Deng Guofu spent nearly four decades breeding hybrid rice and twice neared election to China's Academy of Engineering. Now the discipline inspectorate says he monetised his office — a case Chinese readers are reading as proof that scientific achievement buys no exemption.
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